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Diporiphora
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<h2 id="species">Species</h2> <p>The genus includes these 28 species which are recognized as being valid:<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:1" href="#fn:1"><sup>1</sup></a> </p> <ul><li><i><a href="/facts/Diporiphora_adductus/68bJxl33">Diporiphora adductus</a></i> Doughty, Kealley & Melville, 2012 – Carnarvon dragon</li> <li><i><a href="/facts/Diporiphora_albilabris/NCfQGYD9">Diporiphora albilabris</a></i> <a href="/facts/Glen_Milton_Storr/4z4CdjXW">Storr</a>, 1974 – white-lipped two-line dragon, tar tar lizard</li> <li><i><a href="/facts/Diporiphora_ameliae/K6oSoVnN">Diporiphora ameliae</a></i> Emmott, <a href="/facts/Patrick_J._Couper/kbxNsMLo">Couper</a>, Melville & Chapple, 2012</li> <li><i><a href="/facts/Mulga_dragon/n2GEfASL">Diporiphora amphiboluroides</a></i> <a href="/facts/Arthur_Henry_Shakespeare_Lucas/DN4vkxSF">Lucas</a> & <a href="/facts/Charles_Frost_(herpetologist)/FXuIAfQL">C. Frost</a>, 1902 – mulga dragon</li> <li><i><a href="/facts/Diporiphora_australis/8gKUGnu0">Diporiphora australis</a></i> (<a href="/facts/Franz_Steindachner/mw2vB4fJ">Steindachner</a>, 1867) – Tommy roundhead, eastern two-line dragon</li> <li><i><a href="/facts/Diporiphora_bennettii/0YhQF7F6">Diporiphora bennettii</a></i> (<a href="/facts/John_Edward_Gray/6JdrIDH0">Gray</a>, 1845) – Kimberley sandstone dragon, robust two-line dragon</li> <li><i><a href="/facts/Diporiphora_bilineata/89eVPGgg">Diporiphora bilineata</a></i> Gray, 1842 – northern two-line dragon, two-lined dragon</li> <li><i><a href="/facts/Diporiphora_carpentariensis/XAt5WNfV">Diporiphora carpentariensis</a></i> Melville, Date, Horner & Doughty, 2019 – Gulf two-lined dragon</li> <li><i><a href="/facts/Diporiphora_convergens/6kExu11E">Diporiphora convergens</a></i> Storr, 1974 – Crystal Creek two-lined dragon</li> <li><i><a href="/facts/Diporiphora_gracilis/beAm05YU">Diporiphora gracilis</a></i> Melville, Date, Horner & Doughty, 2019 – gracile two-lined dragon</li> <li><i><a href="/facts/Diporiphora_granulifera/FITaEc3D">Diporiphora granulifera</a></i> Melville, Date, Horner & Doughty, 2019 – granulated two-lined dragon</li> <li><i><a href="/facts/Diporiphora_jugularis/wxJmX5ST">Diporiphora jugularis</a></i> <a href="/facts/William_John_Macleay/MzMgVoXd">Macleay</a>, 1877 – black-throated two-pored dragon</li> <li><i><a href="/facts/Diporiphora_lalliae/RamDvpwc">Diporiphora lalliae</a></i> Storr, 1974 – northern deserts dragon, Lally's two-line dragon</li> <li><i><a href="/facts/Diporiphora_linga/WC2dgXjR">Diporiphora linga</a></i> Houston, 1977 – pink two-line dragon</li> <li><i><a href="/facts/Diporiphora_magna/lgrrwY3l">Diporiphora magna</a></i> Storr, 1974 – yellow-sided two-lined dragon</li> <li><i><a href="/facts/Diporiphora_margaretae/WCJ18Wyl">Diporiphora margaretae</a></i> Storr, 1974</li> <li><i><a href="/facts/Diporiphora_nobbi/JQjdn8Ma">Diporiphora nobbi</a></i> (Witten, 1972) – nobbi lashtail, nobbi</li> <li><i><a href="/facts/Diporiphora_pallida/tVYaTk8p">Diporiphora pallida</a></i> Melville, Date, Horner & Doughty, 2019 – pale two-pored dragon</li> <li><i><a href="/facts/Diporiphora_paraconvergens/jdrTSNq7">Diporiphora paraconvergens</a></i> Doughty, Kealley & Melville, 2012 – grey-striped western desert dragon</li> <li><i><a href="/facts/Diporiphora_perplexa/VfA0q22K">Diporiphora perplexa</a></i> Melville, Date, Horner & Doughty, 2019 – Kimberley rock dragon</li> <li><i><a href="/facts/Diporiphora_phaeospinosa/ejSIj5Py">Diporiphora phaeospinosa</a></i> Edwards & Melville, 2011</li> <li><i><a href="/facts/Diporiphora_pindan/WKrrNu8l">Diporiphora pindan</a></i> Storr, 1980 – Pindan two-line dragon, Pindan dragon</li> <li><i><a href="/facts/Diporiphora_reginae/AqPI5RXs">Diporiphora reginae</a></i> <a href="/facts/Ludwig_Glauert/A0SsXykh">Glauert</a>, 1959 – plain-backed two-line dragon</li> <li><i><a href="/facts/Diporiphora_sobria/5w6ReRhx">Diporiphora sobria</a></i> Storr, 1974 – northern savannah two-pored dragon</li> <li><i><a href="/facts/Diporiphora_superba/g1uAvIQ0">Diporiphora superba</a></i> Storr, 1974 – superb two-line dragon</li> <li><i><a href="/facts/Diporiphora_valens/Iv85CxlI">Diporiphora valens</a></i> Storr, 1980 – southern Pilbara spinifex dragon, southern Pilbara tree dragon, Pilbara two-line dragon</li> <li><i><a href="/facts/Diporiphora_vescus/RghsGjCq">Diporiphora vescus</a></i> Doughty, Kealley & Melville, 2012 – northern Pilbara tree dragon</li> <li><i><a href="/facts/Diporiphora_winneckei/24G17xBA">Diporiphora winneckei</a></i> <a href="/facts/Arthur_Henry_Shakespeare_Lucas/DN4vkxSF">Lucas</a> & <a href="/facts/Charles_Frost_(naturalist)/FXuIAfQL">C. Frost</a>, 1896 – canegrass dragon, canegrass two-line dragon, blue-lined dragon, Winnecke's two-pored dragon</li></ul> <h2 id="further-reading">Further reading</h2> <ul><li><a href="/facts/John_Edward_Gray/6JdrIDH0">Gray JE</a> (1842). "Description of some hitherto unrecorded species of Australian Reptiles and Batrachians". <i>Zoological Miscellany</i> 51-57. (<i>Diporiphora</i>, new genus, pp. 53–54).</li></ul> <h2 id="references">References</h2> <ol> <li id="fn:1"><p>Genus Diporiphora at The Reptile Database. www.reptile-database.org. <a href="http://reptile-database.reptarium.cz/advanced_search?genus=Diporiphora&exact=genus&submit=Search" target="_blank">http://reptile-database.reptarium.cz/advanced_search?genus=Diporiphora&exact=genus&submit=Search</a> <a href="#fnref:1" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> </ol>