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  People & the Planet > biodiversity > features > revealed: how global warming will cause extinction of a ...
The home territories of those that could move might be so reduced as to make a breeding population unviable.
Hypsilurus boydii, Boyd's forest dragon, Boyd's forest dragon is found in the Wet Tropics region of Queensland, Australia.
About 90% of its distribution is predicted to become climatically unsuitable by 2050, for maximum climate warming scenarios.
www.peopleandplanet.net /pdoc.php?id=2113   (906 words)

  
  www.SailFinDragon.com Info   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
Hypsilurus distribution encompasses the eastern side of Wallace's Line, on into Irian Jaya, and the surrounding islands such as New Guinea & the Solomon Islands, and then down through Australia.
The Gonocephalus attain lengths mostly on the smaller side, from ~8"-30", whereas Hypsilurus are a bit on the larger side, from ~14" to well over 36", according to some reports.
I have worked with several species of Gonocephalus and Hypsilurus over the years and they can be a bit fragile and tricky at first.
www.sailfindragon.com /forestDragons1.html   (1503 words)

  
 Feeling the heat: Climate change and biodiversity loss
The cover shows a species in the firing line.
Boyd's forest dragon, Hypsilurus boydii, is found in Queensland, Australia.
About 90% of its distribution would become climatically unsuitable by 2050, on maximum climate warming scenarios.
www.nature.com /nature/links/040108/040108-1.html   (178 words)

  
 Reptiles. Huge reptile range - also products! - Lizard Index - Gully Reptile Centa   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
Rich chocolate-brown to fl above, with a series of pale cream to salmon-pink blotches, which may be irregular, aligned in longitudinal rows, or which may form obscure, transverse bands, especially on the tail: a variegated or reticulated pattern on flanks, chest and abdomen, becoming more obscure in older adults.
Largest Australian Hypsilurus, bearing large 'tooth-like' spines on leading edge of gular pouch, and enlarged plate-like scales on lower corner of jaw.
Angular brow (common to both Australian Hypsilurus) is extremely pronounced on juveniles.
www.reptilecenta.com.au /reptiles/lizards/index.html   (741 words)

  
 Hypsilurus boydii
Hawkes, T. A report of a communal gathering of gravid Boyd's rainforest dragons Hypsilurus boydii.
Unpublished report for the Department of Environment and Heritage.
Torr, G. The ecology of Boyd's forest dragon, Hypsilurus boydii.
www.jcu.edu.au /dept/Zoology/herp/wtlz/boyd.html   (379 words)

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