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Amboina Sailfin Lizard
Hydrosaurus amboinensis
The Amboina sail-finned lizard or Amboina sailfin lizard (Hydrosaurus amboinensis) is the largest agamid lizard in the world, growing to over one metre (3.3 ft) in length. It is found in wooded habitats near water in New Guinea (both Papua New Guinea and Western New Guinea, Indonesia) and Ambon/Amboina Island (Indonesia). Although it has been reported from the Philippines and Sulawesi, a genetic study have shown that all in the former country (even southern ones, which have...
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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 1120224.