Moloch horridus Gray, 1841

Dataset
GBIF Backbone Taxonomy: Rank
SPECIES

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Classification

kingdom
Animalia: phylum
Chordata: class
Reptilia: order
Squamata: family
Agamidae: genus
Moloch: species
Moloch horridus

Name

Synonyms: Acanthosaurus gibbosus Berthold, 1846
Homonyms: Moloch horridus Gray, 1841
Common names: Dornteufel in language.; Moloch in language.; Mountain Devil in English; Thorny Devil in English; Thorny Devil in English

Bibliographic References

Berthold,A.A. (1846) Mittheilungen über das zoologische Museum zu Göttingen. I. Verzeichnisss der aufgestellten Reptilien.: Nachr. G. A. Univ. K. Gesell. Wiss. Göttingen 8-10: 1-28
Boulenger, G.A. (1885) Catalogue of the Lizards in the British Museum (Nat. Hist.) I. Geckonidae, Eublepharidae, Uroplatidae, Pygopodidae, Agamidae.: London: 450 pp.
Cogger, H. G. (2014) Reptiles and Amphibians of Australia, 7th ed.: CSIRO Publishing, xxx + 1033 pp.
Cogger,H.G. (2000) Reptiles and Amphibians of Australia, 6th ed.: Ralph Curtis Publishing, Sanibel Island, 808 pp.
Frank, Norman & Ramus, Erica (1995) A Complete Guide to Scientific and Common Names of Reptiles and Amphibians of the World.: Pottsville: N G Publishing Inc., 377 pp.
Gray, J. E. (1841) Description of some new species and four new genera of reptiles from Western Australia, discovered by John Gould, Esq.: Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. (1) 7: 86-91
Hutchinson, Mark N. and Rhonda G. Hutchinson (2011) Karyotypes of Moloch and Chelosania (Squamata: Acrodonta).: Journal of Herpetology 45 (2): 216-218.
Macey, J. R., J. A. Schulte II, A. Larson, N. B. Ananjeva, Y. Wang, R. Pethiyagoda, N. Rastegar-Pouyani, T. J. Papenfuss (2000) Evaluating trans-Tethys migration: an example using acrodont lizard phylogenetics.: Systematic Biology 49 (2): 233-256
Manthey,U. & SCHUSTER,N. (1999) Agamen, 2. Aufl.: Natur und Tier Verlag (Münster), 120 pp.
Pianka, E. R. (1969) Habitat specificity, speciation, and species density in Australian desert lizards.: Ecology 50 (3): 498-502
Pianka, Eric R. (1997) Australia's Thorny Devil.: Reptiles 5 (11): 14-23
Pianka, Eric R.;Pianka, Helen D. (1970) The ecology of Moloch horridus (Lacertilia: Agamidae) in Western Australia.: Copeia 1970 (1): 90-103
Pianka, G A; E R Pianka & G G Thompson (1998) Natural history of thorny devils Moloch horridus (Lacertilia: Agamidae) in the Great Victoria Desert.: J. Roy. Soc. West. Aust. 81: 183-190
Siebenrock, Friedrich (1892) Ueber Wirbelassimilation bei den Sauriern.: Annalen des Königlichen Kaiserlichen Naturhistorischen Hofmuseum in Wien 7: 373-378
Wilson, S. & Swan, G. (2010) A complete guide to reptiles of Australia, 3rd ed.: Chatswood: New Holland, 558 pp.