Tympanocryptis condaminensis

Appearance

Tympanocryptis condaminensis is a small to medium-sized Tympanocryptis with well-developed lateral and ventral body patterning, consisting of strongly contrasting brown-black and white irregular banding and speckling. The ventral patterning is concentrated on the head, throat and upper chest, extending posteriorly toward the lateral portions of the belly. Individuals with heavy ventral patterning usually have a narrow longitudinal stripe of white along the centre line of the upper third of the chest.

Range and habitat

It inhabits the remnant native grasslands, croplands and roadside verges of the eastern Darling Downs, on the black cracking clays of the Condamine River floodplain. Tympanocryptis condaminensis, the Condamine earless dragon, is a agama found in Australia. It is currently known from the eastern Darling Downs, where it inhabits the remnant native grasslands, croplands and roadside verges on the black cracking clays of the Condamine River floodplain.

Pins are Wikidata “endemic to” fields. Orange dots, when present, are GBIF occurrence tiles — survey bias included.

In crisis

Tympanocryptis condaminensis is Endangered on this catalog because that is the IUCN category stored on Wikidata. Confirm the official criteria and any later count on iucnredlist.org.

Sources

Written for this catalog from the English Wikipedia article on Tympanocryptis condaminensis, Wikidata item Q20722316. Family and order context is original field-guide writing about the group, not a copied assessment of this one species. Wikipedia text is CC BY-SA. Not an IUCN assessment. Counts, when quoted, can change — confirm them on the recovery programme and on iucnredlist.org.