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Australia has a very diverse lizard fauna, ranging from the very large to the tiny. Explore the image gallery of Australian lizards.


R.185792 Cunningham's Skink (Egernia cunninghami)
A male Eastern Water Dragon basks on a weathered wooden deck, showing its red chest.
Marbled Velvet Gecko on branch (Oedura marmorata)
Eastern Blue-tongue Lizard, Tiliqua scincoides scincoides
Central Bearded Dragon <i> Pogona vitticeps</i>
Gidgee Skink, Egernia stokesii.
Male Eastern Water Dragon Intellagama lesueurii
The Copper-tailed Skink has a distinctive red-brown tail.
Hidden Dragon (Cryptagama aurita)
Marbled Velvet Gecko (Oedura marmorata)
Moloch horridus
R.185866 Thick-tailed Gecko (Underwoodisaurus milii)

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