Hypsilurus is a genus of arboreal lizards in the family Agamidae. The genus is endemic to Melanesia.
Species , Hypsilurus contains the following 18 species: Hypsilurus auritus Hypsilurus binotatus – two-marked forest dragon Hypsilurus bruijnii – Bruijn's forest dragon Hypsilurus capreolatus Hypsilurus geelvinkianus – New Guinea forest dragon Hypsilurus godeffroyi – northern forest dragon Hypsilurus hikidanus – Hikida's forest dragon Hypsilurus longi – Long's forest dragon Hypsilurus macrolepis Hypsilurus magnus Hypsilurus modestus – modest forest dragon Hypsilurus nigrigularis Hypsilurus ornatus – Denzer's forest dragon Hypsilurus papuensis – Papua forest dragon Hypsilurus schoedei – Vogt's forest dragon Hypsilurus schultzewestrumi Hypsilurus spinosus Hypsilurus tenuicephalus
Three species previously assigned to the genus Hypsilurus have now been moved to the genus Lophosaurus: Hypsilurus boydii (Macleay, 1884) – Boyd's forest dragon Hypsilurus dilophus (A.M.C. Duméril & Bibron, 1837) – Indonesian forest dragon Hypsilurus spinipes (A.M.C. Duméril & A.H.A. Duméril, 1851) – southern forest dragon, southern angle-headed dragon
Nota bene: A binomial authority in parentheses indicates that the species was originally described in a genus other than Hypsilurus.
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Further reading
Manthey U, Denzer W (2016). "Melanesian anglehead lizards of the genus Hypsilurus Peters, 1867 – Part 1: Species from New Guinea". Sauria 38 (3): 11–36. Peters W (1867). "Über Flederthiere ... und Amphibien ( Hypsilurus ... )". Monatsberichte der Königlich-Preussischen Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Berlin 1867: 703–712. (Hypsilurus, new subgenus, pp. 707–708). (in German).