The mulga dragon (Diporiphora amphiboluroides) is a species of agamid lizard found in Western Australia. The species is up to 250 mm long, the length from snout to vent is 95 mm, with a long, slender tail that ends abruptly. The patterning over the legs and body is grey and brownish streaks. This provides an excellent camouflage on mulga trees, its usual habitat, it is also found beneath mulga leaf litter. Diporiphora amphiboluroides generally remains motionless and unobserved, this allows it to operate as an ambush predator and elude animals that would prey on it.

It resembles another Western Australian species, the western bearded dragon (Pogona minor).

Mulga dragon

References

Diporiphora

Reptiles of Western Australia

Reptiles described in 1902

Taxa named by Arthur Henry Shakespeare Lucas

Taxa named by Charles Frost (naturalist) Agamid lizards of Australia

Mulga dragon