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Mountain horned dragons are popular pets, and readily available in the exotic pet trade. A. capra is considered the hardiest and most easily kept species of the genus, and is the most common species found for sale in the United States. [1] While not considered to be difficult to breed in captivity, most specimens available are wild caught.
Acanthosaura capra is a species of Agamid lizards: commonly known as the mountain horned dragon, it is also called the Indo-Chinese spiny lizard or the green pricklenape.
Laos karst dragon 1 Lophocalotes: Sumatra crested agamas 2 L. ludekingi. Lyriocephalus (Linnaeus, 1758) hump-nosed lizard, lyreshead lizard 1 L. scutatus. Malayodracon: Robinson's anglehead lizard 1 Mantheyus. Manthey & Nabhitabhata, 1991. Phuwua rock agama 1 M. phuwuanensis. Microauris (Pal et al., 2018) small-eared dragon 1 Monilesaurus: 4 M ...
[21] [22] The majority of captive-bred bearded dragons today are thought to have originated from stock illegally exported from Australia during the 1970s. [23] Australia has since prohibited the importation and exportation of its native species, thus guaranteeing any bearded dragons found today outside of Australia have been captive-bred, hand ...
A vivarium housing poison dart frogs . Herpetoculture is the keeping of live reptiles and amphibians in captivity, whether as a hobby or as a commercial breeding operation. "Herps" is an informal term for both reptiles and amphibians, shortened from the scientific umbrella term “herptiles”. [1]
Acanthosaura bintangensis, the Bukit Larut Mountain horned agamid or Bintang horned tree lizard, is a species of agama found in Malaysia. [2] References
The c. 139 BCE Huainanzi "Peering into the Obscure" chapter (6) mentions qingqiu 青虯 "green horned-dragon" twice. First, "The Fable of the Dragons and the Mud-Eels" uses it with chichi 赤螭 "red hornless-dragon"; "When the red hornless dragon and the green horned dragon roamed the land of Chi 冀, the sky was limpid and the earth undisturbed."
The rhinoceros iguana, like other members of the genus Cyclura, is a large-bodied, heavy-headed lizard with strong legs and a vertically flattened tail. [5] A crest of pointed horned scales extends from the nape of their neck to the tip of their tail. [5]