Pogona vitticeps (Ahl, 1926)

Figueroa, Alex, Low, Martyn E. Y. & Lim, Kelvin K. P., 2023, Singapore’s herpetofauna: updated and annotated checklist, history, conservation, and distribution, Zootaxa 5287 (1), pp. 1-378 : 251-252

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.5287.1.1

publication LSID

lsid:zoobank.org:pub:78E23714-8973-4755-BC94-0A751D7D2B37

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7968178

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/88502B73-FF60-B88D-FF6B-40D37D230D17

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Plazi

scientific name

Pogona vitticeps (Ahl, 1926)
status

 

Pogona vitticeps (Ahl, 1926) View in CoL — Non-native; Introduced.

Central Bearded Dragon

Singapore records.

Pogona vitticeps —C.Z.F. Wong & N.T-L. Lim, 2018: 22 (Telok Blangah).

Remarks. Pogona vitticeps is native to Australia ( Cogger 2014), and is exceedingly common in the pet trade, being one of the most familiar and purchased pet reptiles ( Bartlett 2006). As such, the individual found at Telok Blangah on 21 January 2018 is most definitely an abandoned pet (Wong & Lim 2018). A dead one was also seen floating in Kranji Reservoir on 13 January 2021 (J. Tan pers. comm.).

LKCNHM & NHMUK Museum specimens. No specimens.

Additional Singapore museum specimens. No specimens.

Family Chamaeleonidae Gray, 1825 (3 species)

Genus Chamaeleo Laurenti, 1768 (2 species)

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Chordata

Class

Reptilia

Order

Squamata

Family

Agamidae

Genus

Pogona

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