Editing Frilled lizard (section)

{{Short description|Species of reptile}}
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{{Use Australian English|date=May 2023}}
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| name = Frilled lizard
| fossil_range = <!-- <ref>{{Cite web|url=https://paleobiodb.org/classic/checkTaxonInfo?taxon_no=37881|title = ''Agamidae'' Gray 1827 (squamates) |website=Paleobiology database  access-date=25 January 2022}}</ref> -->
| image = Frill-necked Lizard (Chlamydosaurus kingii) (8692622586).jpg
| status = LC
| status_system = IUCN3.1
| status_ref = <ref name="iucn status 19 November 2021">{{cite iucn |last1=O'Shea |first1=M. |author1-link=Mark O'Shea (herpetologist) |last2=Allison |first2=A. |author2-link=species:Allen Allison |last3=Tallowin |first3=O. |author3-link=species:Oliver J.S. Tallowin |last4=Wilson |first4=S. |author4-link=species:Steve K. Wilson |last5=Melville |first5=J. |author5-link=Jane Melville |date=2017 |title=''Chlamydosaurus kingii '' |volume=2017 |page=e.T170384A21644690 |doi=10.2305/IUCN.UK.2017-3.RLTS.T170384A21644690.en |access-date=19 November 2021}}</ref>
| display_parents = 2
| genus = Chlamydosaurus
| parent_authority = [[John Edward Gray|Gray]], 1825
| species = kingii
| authority = [[John Edward Gray|Gray]], 1825
| range_map = Chlamydosaurus_kingii_distribution_map.png
| range_map_caption = Distribution of ''Chlamydosaurus kingii''
| synonyms = *''Clamydosaurus'' [sic] ''kingii'' <br />{{small|Gray, 1825}}
*''Chlamydosaurus kingii'' <br />{{small|— Gray ''in'' [[Phillip Parker King|King]], 1827}} <br />(''nomen emendatum'')
| synonyms_ref = <ref>{{NRDB species |genus=Chlamydosaurus |species=kingii}}</ref>

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The '''frilled lizard''' ('''''Chlamydosaurus kingii''')'', also known [[Common name|commonly]] as the '''frilled agama''', the '''frillneck lizard''', the '''frill-necked lizard''', and the '''frilled dragon''', is a [[species]] of lizard in the [[Family (biology)|family]] [[Agamidae]]. The species is native to northern [[Australia]] and southern [[New Guinea]] and is the [[monotypic|only member]] of the [[genus]] '''''Chlamydosaurus'''''. Its common names refer to the large [[neck frill|frill]] around its neck, which usually stays folded against the lizard's body. The frilled lizard grows to {{cvt|90|cm}} from head to tail tip and can weigh {{cvt|600|g|lb}}. Males are larger and more robust than females. The lizard's body is generally grey, brown, orangish-brown, or black in colour. The frills have red, orange, yellow, or white colours.

The frilled lizard is largely [[arboreal]], spending most of its time in trees. Its diet consists mainly of insects and other [[invertebrate]]s. It is more active during the [[wet season]], when it spends more time near or on the ground, and is less observed during the [[dry season]], during which it seeks shade in the branches of the upper [[Canopy (biology)|canopy]]. It breeds in the late dry season and early wet season. The lizard uses its frill to [[deimatic behaviour|scare off]] predators and [[Display (zoology)|display]] to other individuals. The species is considered to be of [[Least-concern species|least concern]] by the [[International Union for Conservation of Nature]].