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Gliding lizards
Draco
Draco is a genus of agamid lizards that are also known as flying lizards, flying dragons or gliding lizards. These lizards can move by gliding; their ribs and their connecting membrane may be extended to create "wings" (patagia), the hindlimbs are flattened and wing-like in cross-section, and a flap on the neck (the gular flag) serve as a horizontal stabilizers. Draco are arboreal insectivores.
41 branches of this genus, most-observed first · about 41 known species
Common Gliding Lizard
speciesDraco sumatranus
Orange-winged Flying Lizard
speciesDraco maculatus
Javan Flying Dragon
speciesDraco volans
Philippine Flying Dragon
speciesDraco spilopterus
Black-barbed Flying Dragon
speciesDraco melanopogon
Western Ghats Flying Lizard
speciesDraco dussumieri
Bartlett’s Flying Dragon
speciesDraco cornutus
Barred Flying Dragon
speciesDraco taeniopterus
Blanford's Flying Lizard
speciesDraco blanfordii
Five-lined Flying Dragon
speciesDraco quinquefasciatus
Sulawesi Lined Gliding Lizard
speciesDraco spilonotus
Great Flying Dragon
speciesDraco maximus
Indochinese Flying Dragon
speciesDraco indochinensis
Boschma's Flying Dragon
speciesDraco boschmai
Fringed Flying Dragon
speciesDraco fimbriatus
Timor Flying Dragon
speciesDraco timoriensis
Formosa Gliding Lizard
speciesDraco formosus
Red Bearded Flying Lizard
speciesDraco haematopogon
Two-spotted Flying Lizard
speciesDraco bimaculatus
Walker's Gliding Dragon
speciesDraco walkeri
Palawan Gliding Dragon
speciesDraco palawanensis
Orange-bearded Gliding Lizard
speciesDraco abbreviatus
Dusky Gliding Lizard
speciesDraco obscurus
Green-winged Flying Lizard
speciesDraco cyanopterus
Sulawesi Flying Dragon
speciesDraco beccarii
Guenther's Flying Lizard
speciesDraco guentheri
White Spotted Flying Lizard
speciesDraco ornatus
Black-spotted Gliding Dragon
speciesDraco rhytisma
Norvill's Flying Lizard
speciesDraco norvillii
Jarecki's Flying Dragon
speciesDraco jareckii
Supriatna's Gliding Dragon
speciesDraco supriatnai
Lined Flying Dragon
speciesDraco lineatus
Sangihe Flying Dragon
speciesDraco caerulhians
Draco punctatus
speciesDraco punctatus
Reticulated Gliding Dragon
speciesDraco reticulatus
Quadras' Flying Lizard
speciesDraco quadrasi
Lined Flying Dragon
speciesDraco modiglianii
Mindanao Flying Lizard
speciesDraco mindanensis
Crested Flying Dragon
speciesDraco cristatellus
Iskandar's Gliding Dragon
speciesDraco iskandari
Lazell’s Flying Dragon
speciesDraco biaro
Where it lives
Recorded sightings
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geo-referenced records in GBIF, from museums, herbaria and field observers.
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In the old herbals & bestiaries
Viatorium, hoc est, de montibus planetarum
Maier, Michael · 1651 · p.-48
The Subterranean World Volume Two
Athanasius Kircher · 1678 · p.110
Serpentum et Draconum Historiae
Ulisse Aldrovandi · 1640 · p.422
History of Serpents and Dragons
Ulisse Aldrovandi · 1640 · p.429
![Gliding lizards in Unterhaltungen aus der Naturgeschichte / [Tafelband.]](https://images.sourcelibrary.org/gallery/6a100a41f71729295096ed6b/6a100a41f71729295096ed9c-0.jpg?v=1780588142483)
Unterhaltungen aus der Naturgeschichte / [Tafelband.]
Borkhausen, Moritz Balthasar (1760-1806) · n.d. · p.49
Jan Moninckx; Maria Moninckx — Moninckx Atlas, vol. 6 (1686)
Jan Moninckx; Maria Moninckx · 1686 · p.47
Garden of Health
Jacob Meydenbach · 1491 · p.687
Hortus Eystettensis
Basilius Besler · 1640 · p.364
Serpentum et Draconum Historiae
Ulisse Aldrovandi · 1640 · p.440
Mundus Subterraneus
Athanasius Kircher · 1678 · p.560
Mundus Subterraneus
Athanasius Kircher · 1678 · p.563
Rariorum Plantarum Historia (with Fungorum Historia)
Carolus Clusius · 1601 · p.19
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