This is a really good photo of one. When you see one, you KNOW its eastern. Some centrals have some eastern type characteristics, mostly being a leaner type animal... but in general an eastern stands out quite significantly when you see one. The size of the scales on the nose, the shape of the eye ridges, the spikes not just around the head but down the back and especially the base of the tail. Their proportions as well, the tail of the eastern is long and thick at the base but tapers off rapidly and is very spikey.
Centrals are significantly smoother, chubbier, their head seems smaller in proportion to their body and their tail is smaller looking in proportion. Easterns are very impressive animals.
They are all different apart from the bottom 3 photos on the left vertical are the same lizard and the big black one on the rock is the same one as the one underneath the first photo. But I think they are both eastern swell as the first one. It's not a trick question I genuinely want to know. Is size a big factor in telling the difference
That is a great photo very distinctive of an eastern bearded dragon this photo helpt alot can anyone put up a very distinctive and a very typical central bearded dragon photo as good as that one please?.