Frilled lizard
Amazing fact
The frilled lizard’s frill is a thin fold of skin around its throat.
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The frilled lizard’s frill is a thin fold of skin around its throat.
THE REAL WORLD
The real Frilled lizard
- Scientific name
- Chlamydosaurus kingii
- Japanese name
- エリマキトカゲ
- Group
- Amphibians and reptiles
- Class
- Reptilia
- Order
- Squamata
- Family
- Agamidae
- Genus
- Chlamydosaurus
A lizard of northern Australia and southern New Guinea. It spends most of its time on tree trunks and branches.
It has a big frill around its neck. When alarmed, it suddenly spreads the frill and opens its mouth, making itself look bigger.
It mostly eats small insects and other small invertebrates. It is well known for running on just its hind legs.
How the Frilled lizard lives
It is active by day and spends much of its time resting on trunks and low branches. It sometimes comes down to the ground after rain or to look for food. It becomes less active in the dry season and more active in the wet season.
University of Michigan Animal Diversity WebBasic data
- Active
- By day (diurnal)
- Range
- Northern Australia and southern New Guinea
Where the Frilled lizard has been recorded
Records: GBIF.org (CC0 and CC BY 4.0 records, retrieved 2026-11-07). Map: Natural EarthSee the records on GBIF
Watch wild animals from a distance. Do not touch or feed them, and take care of the places where they live.
Names around the world
- 日本語
- エリマキトカゲ
- 简体中文
- 伞蜥蜴
- 繁體中文
- 傘蜥蜴
- 한국어
- 목도리도마뱀
- Español
- Clamidosaurio de King
- Français
- Lézard à collerette
- Deutsch
- Kragenechse
- Português (Brasil)
- Lagarto-de-gola
- Italiano
- Clamidosauro
- العربية
- سحلية مكشكشة
- Bahasa Indonesia
- Soa payung
- Русский
- Плащеносная ящерица
- ไทย
- กิ้งก่าแผงคอ
Names come from Wikidata and iNaturalist records. Where a language has no recorded name, we use the scientific name.
Sources and how we check
- University of Michigan Animal Diversity Web — Chlamydosaurus kingiiChecked: 2026-11-03
We check each fact against its source. The illustrations simplify how the real animal looks.
The classification (class, order, family, genus) follows Wikidata records, checked against GBIF. Classifications can change as research goes on.
The basic data are the values given in each source. They vary with how the animal is measured, whether it is male or female, and whether it lives in the wild or in captivity.
This page was translated from the original Japanese with the help of AI.
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