What type of Beardie is this

[nemooy]

Could someone please tell me what sort of beardie I have. He is about 2 years old and I bought him as just a bearded dragon. He is not as wide in the head and body as most of the others I have seen. He/she is not normally this wide but is sitting under the heat lamp.

Any info would be great.

Thanks
Nicole

 

[James..94]

How long is he/she?

 

[Redtailed]

looks like and eastern but someone more experianced will comment soon.

 

[nemooy]

He/she is approx 40cm

 

[SomeGuy]

It is an eastern

 

[James..94]

Yeh eastern.

 

[nemooy]

thanks everyone, much appreciated.

 

[Wally]

Spines across back of the head says Eastern.

 

[hornet]

did you purchase it on licence? If so it should have the scientific name on the paperwork but i agree it does look like an easter (pogona barbata)

 

[CamdeJong]

I think it's a vitticeps. Spines on the back of the head usually form a straight line on barbata. Also barbata typically lacks the lighter patterning on the back and the vivid tail stripes, and has a much more angular head. The spines on the chin and sides are fewer and not as large as those on barbata. I actually think it might be bred for scale reduction, a common trait in captive vitticeps breeding nowadays.

 

[Wally]

I think it's a vitticeps. Spines on the back of the head usually form a straight line on barbata. Also barbata typically lacks the lighter patterning on the back and the vivid tail stripes, and has a much more angular head. The spines on the chin and sides are fewer and not as large as those on barbata. I actually think it might be bred for scale reduction, a common trait in captive vitticeps breeding nowadays.

I beg to differ.

 

[Bushman]

I also reckon that it's Pogona vitticeps, based on the fact that the scales around the base of the tail are heterogenous without the regularly spaced enlarged rows that are characteristic of P. barbata.

What species was it bought as? I didn't think that there was a species code for 'Pogona sp'.

 

[James..94]

Just throwing it out there, but I think more likely a hybrid than pure.
It is showing traits of both Centrals and Easterns.

 

[CamdeJong]

P. barbata tail enlarged rows (pointed out by Bushman)

 

[1issie]

Central,easterns have a pointy head but in this case no so it is a central

 

[Wally]

I understand what you are both saying but the flank and head spines don't support your argument.

 

[1issie]

Find Show us your beardys and find my pic,he is a pure central,they look alike

 

[SomeGuy]

we all know its an eastern and these other people are wrong.

 

[Bushman]

What are you basing your argument on SomeGuy?

 

[giggle]

Central.

Its almost too fat to tell!! ROFL... you need to get a pic of the back of its head if possible But looks like a vitticeps (central) to me. Its just your typical plain grey which are pretty uncommon these days!

Easterns

Centrals