Eastern Water Dragon
Very common dragon that can be unafraid of people and almost tame. Wild animals can be found in CBD Brisbane in most tourist places close to the water or in bushland. Taxonomically, this taxon is messed, probably due to a seclusive researcher reclassifying and the world not knowing about it. In ALA I found Intellagama as a synonym. Neither ALA nor GBIF give direction but have it co-existant with Physignathus. Certainly not a satisfying situation, but anything to discourage lay people to get involved into biodiversity documentation. Update 10/4/2017: ALA has now also changed this taxon to Intellagama. Lately, I experience a lot of responsiveness from ALA. Maybe they hear too, that we need direct backwards and forward links to their taxonomy should it one day be authoritative. It can not be coincidence and constant luring in expert forums to guarantee that public forums like mine are not - unwillingly - spreading outdated and wrong taxa.
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