Endangered
Tympanocryptis wilsoni
Tympanocryptis wilsoni
Tympanocryptis wilsoni is a lizard or snake in the family Agamidae, recorded as Endangered and tied to Australia.
Appearance
Tympanocryptis wilsoni is a small to medium-sized Tympanocryptis with a well-developed lateral and ventral body patterning, consisting of extensive brown-black speckling. The ventral patterning is concentrated on the head, throat and upper chest, extending posteriorly toward the lateral portions of the belly. There is heavy brown-black speckling along the sides but white lateral stripe is absent.
Range and habitat
The species is known from the native grasslands near the town of Roma, from Hodgson approximately 20 km west to Mt Abundance approximately 50 km south-west of Roma. It inhabits grasslands on sloping terrains, that are dominated by Mitchell grasses in the western Darling Downs. Tympanocryptis wilsoni, the Roma earless dragon, is a agama found in Queensland, Australia.
Pins are Wikidata “endemic to” fields. Orange dots, when present, are GBIF occurrence tiles — survey bias included.
In crisis
Tympanocryptis wilsoni 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 wilsoni, Wikidata item Q20722312. 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.
