Nobbi Dragon

D. nobbi is found in the Australian states of New South Wales, Queensland, South Australia, and Victoria. This range extends predominantly from the Northern Queensland down along the central and eastern regions through to New South Wales, down and west to North-western Victoria and South-eastern South Australia. With Small Patches identified in the North end of the Northern Territory The preferred natural habitats of D. nobbi are shrubland, savanna, and forest. The Nobbi Dragon is distributed across a variety of environments and ecosystems in Australia, from rainforests, dry woodlands, coastal swamplands and vegetation, cool temperate forests and uplands, and dry mallee and spinifex woodlands. This wide distribution has contributed to large amounts of variation in morphological characteristics such as size and colouration. Inside these environments the Nobbi Dragon inhabits the understory layer in dry spinifex grass as well as trunks and hollows, for food and shelter.

The Nobbi Dragon, Diporiphora nobbi, is a lizard species endemic to Northern and Eastern Australia. A part of the family Agamidae which is commonly known as the Dragon Family. The Nobbi Dragon reaches lengths of 20 cm long from the snout to tail, with specific colourations of browns and blacks with two distinct strips running horizontally along its back beginning at the head and finishing at the end of the tail on either side of the spine. The Nobbi Dragon can also be identified as having less than 20 dorsal scale rows at the level of the axilla deferring from other diporiphora species. They reside near and in shrubbery of tree trunks, in arid shrublands, savannas and forests, running on their hind legs when threatened. The Nobbi Dragon is a part of the Diporiphora genus which has 21 species which is distinct from other Agamidae species due to their climbing ability and morphological attributes. Like other reptiles the Nobbi Dragon reproduces sexual and is a oviparous animal laying eggs and embryo's developing inside the eggs. The Nobbi Dragon is a Carnivore that primarily consumes insects and other small invertebrates. They hunt by waiting in an ambush position for their prey, then lashing out, grabbing their prey with their mouths at speed, when within striking distance.