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Hi guys,
What is your top 10 favorite lizards of Australia???
 
So hard to pick ten but just at the top of my head
Common scaly foot
Hooded scaly foot
Stripped legless lizard
Plain delma
Burton's legless lizard
Thorny devil
Perentie
Rough knob-tailed gecko
Kimberly rock monitor
Pygmy blue tongue
Emerald tree monitor
Australia have so many awesome lizards I could go on an on
And I've only found one of these reptiles

Stripped legless lizard(Delma Impar) by Melbourne herping, on Flickr

Stripped legless lizard(Delma Impar) by Melbourne herping, on Flickr

Stripped legless lizard(Delma Impar) by Melbourne herping, on Flickr
 
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what id love to see the most are

nangurs
bronzebacks
perenties
kimberely and pilbara rock monitors
l.kintorei
l.striata
amyae
vertebralis!
jeanae
yakkas
clayi
boydi
scirtetis
cygnitos
pygmy blueys
leuraensis
orraya
uvidicolus
.....
just to name a few haha!
 
A tough call but fun question. my favourites are in no particular order.
Bearded dragon/pygmy bearded dragon
Frilled-necked lizard
Netted dragon
Lace monitor
Perentie
Mertins water monitor
Giant cave gecko
Marbled gecko
Thorny devil
Pink tongued skinks
 
hosmer's
burtons
northern velvet
V.tristis orientalis
V.storri
delma tincta
northern leaf tail
Nobbi Nobbi
ctenotus robustus
and
diplodactylus
 
Okay, a little bit tough but thankfully my fav lizards are mostly monitors and geckos :)

1- Lace monitor
2- Perentie
3- Sand monitor
4- Pilbara rock monitor
5- Kimberely rock monitor
6- Mangrove monitor (blue phase)
7- Black headed monitor (only certain colour forms)
8- Heath monitor (again only certain pattern/colour forms)
9- Golden tail gecko
10- Northern spiny tail gecko (aswell as the rest of the spiny tail geckos)

That about sums it up :)
 
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Don't make me choose.....:( I love them all!!!

I like people's lists so far though :)
 
I have all bar 14 of sp listed above....just frustrating you there Richo....mind you I will add my present top ten of what I want to find

Nangura
kabikabi
keithhornei
Pseudothedactlyus australis
Delma mitella
Orraya
praealtus
victorian mutliscutata bos
Cyclodomorphus maximus
Eugongylus rufescens
 
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Here are a few of my favourites that I kept as a kid. I still have a strong sentimental attachment…

Alpine Blotched Bluetongue
Granite Belt or Coastal Sandstone form of Cunningham Skink
Eastern Water Skink
Coppertail Skink
Bluish form of Gippsland Water Dragon
Lesueur’s Gecko

This original list contained 20 animals and I thought I had done well to restrict it to that. In cutting it back by half I am by no means sure I got it right. There are just so many amazing and highly desirable lizards out there…

Crytodactylus tuberculatus
Oedura gracilis
Pseudothecadactylus cavaticus
Strophurus jeanae
Pygopus nigriceps
Liopholis kintorei
Ctenophorus butleri
Ctenophorus vadnappa
Varanus pilbarensis
Varanus glauerti

Blue
 
Stripped legless lizard
What was it stripped of?


In order.
Nephrurus vertebralis.
Nephrurus vertebralis.
Nephrurus vertebralis.
Nephrurus asper
Nephrurus sheai
Nephrurus amyae
Nephrurus vertebralis
Nephrurus deleani
Nephrurus vertebralis
Nephrurus levis.
 
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Mahony you gimp!

My top 10 -

Asain house gecko
Garden skink
Eastern blue tounge
Snail
Nephrurus Clancy
Asain house gecko
Marbled Gecko
Snail
Furcifer Pardalis
Helix Aspersa
 
So GeckPhotographer I can assume it's safe to say you like vertebralis then?

In no particular order...
N. deleani
N. laevissimus
N. levis
N. stellatus
P. australis
S. elderi
Various other spinifex/striped geckos
Rhynchoedura sp.
eremius
pilbarensis
scalaris
pellewensis
tristis

Don't even get me started on locale specific animals...
 
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Yeah in all seriousness now - in no order

Neph. Asper | Amyae
Perentie
V. Glauerti and Panoptes
Stroph. Elderi
Boydii
Eastern Scalyfoots
Centralian blue tounge
Hypo albino dwarf double headed patternless levis.
Chameleon Gecko
Garden skink - Just for you Nick <3
 
What was it stripped of?


In order.
Nephrurus vertebralis.
Nephrurus vertebralis.
Nephrurus vertebralis.
Nephrurus asper
Nephrurus sheai
Nephrurus amyae
Nephrurus vertebralis
Nephrurus deleani
Nephrurus vertebralis
Nephrurus levis.
Ahh crap, just realised that. I'll have to change that
 
Thorny Devil
Frilled Neck
Perentie
Lace Monitor
Central bearded Dragon
Eastern bearded Dragon
Eastern Blue Tongue
Ackies
Spencers
Any Nephrurus species

Just a few of my favourite Aussie Lizards.
 
Awesome line up you've all presented... Mine are as follows:
-Central Bearded Dragon
-Frill Neck
-Eastern Water Dragon
-Boyds Forest Dragon...
 
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