Morphological characteristics of Chinese water dragons

Morphological Characteristics of Chinese Water Dragon
Chinese Water Dragon

Adult Chinese Water Dragon The water dragon is relatively large, with its tail longer than its head and body. The body length is about 150mm (not including the tail), and the tail length is about 300mm or more. Under different circumstances, the body and back expression of Chinese water dragons will change with the environment.
The back of the Chinese water dragon's body is olive brown or gray or light brown and black. The body color can change according to the environment and the intensity of the light. It often has gray or light yellow freckles with black edges and three intermittent vertical stripes. The small body of the head is flat on the sides; the dorsal scales are very small, wide in size, ribbed, and the scale tips are upward and backward; the scales in the throat area are oval; the neck hyena and the dorsal hyena are continuous, and the front hyena scales are on the skin folds; the scales of the male lizard are smaller The female is long, spear-shaped or sickle-shaped; the back and tail hyenas are slightly apart; there are tooth-like ctenoid scales on the sides of the toes. The tail is flat on both sides and covered with small scales. The scales under the tail are larger than those on the dorsal side of the tail and have strong ribs.

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