Gonocephalus is also a synonym of the catfish genus Clarotes.
Gonocephalus is a genus of agamid lizards endemic to southeast Asia.
Species from Melanesia and Australia which were formerly included in Gonocephalus are now placed in the genus Hypsilurus.[1]
, Gonocephalus contains the following 17 species:
Image | Scientific Name | Common Name | Distribution |
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Gonocephalus bellii (A.M.C. Duméril & Bibron, 1837) | Bell's anglehead lizard, Bell's forest dragon | Thailand, Malacca, Perak, Pahang, Selangor, Indonesia (Borneo), and West Malaysia | |
Gonocephalus beyschlagi (Boettger, 1892) | Sumatra forest dragon | Sumatra, Indonesia. | |
Gonocephalus bornensis (Schlegel, 1848) | Borneo anglehead lizard, Borneo forest dragon | Sabah, Kinabalu, Brunei, Sarawak and Kalimantan | |
Gonocephalus chamaeleontinus (Laurenti, 1768) | chameleon forest dragon, chameleon anglehead lizard | Indonesia and Malaysia | |
Gonocephalus doriae (W. Peters, 1871) | Doria's angle-headed lizard | Borneo | |
Gonocephalus grandis (Gray, 1845) | giant forest dragon, great anglehead lizard | Thailand, Vietnam, Malaysia, Indonesia, and Myanmar. | |
Gonocephalus inauris Harvey, Sarker, Sidik, Kurniawan & E.N. Smith, 2023 | Indonesia | ||
Gonocephalus interruptus (Boulenger, 1885) | Boulenger's forest dragon, Mindoro anglehead | Philippines. | |
Gonocephalus klossi (Boulenger, 1920) | Kloss's forest dragon | Indonesia. | |
Gonocephalus kuhlii (Schlegel, 1848) | Indonesia. | ||
Gonocephalus lacunosus Manthey & Denzer, 1991 | Manthey's forest dragon | Indonesia. | |
Gonocephalus liogaster (Günther, 1872) | tropical forest dragon, blue-eyed anglehead lizard, orange-ringed anglehead lizard, | Indonesia and Malaysia. | |
Gonocephalus megalepis (Bleeker, 1860) | Bleeker's forest dragon | Indonesia. | |
Gonocephalus mjobergi M.A. Smith, 1925 | Indonesia and Malaysia. | ||
Gonocephalus pyrius Harvey, Reich, Riyanto, Kurniawan & E.N. Smith, 2021 | angle-headed dragon | Sumatra. | |
Gonocephalus semperi (W. Peters, 1867) | Mindoro forest dragon | Philippines. | |
Gonocephalus sophiae (Gray, 1845) | Negros forest dragon | Philippines. | |
A binomial authority in parentheses indicates that the species was originally described in a genus other than Gonocephalus.