Hypsilurus is a genus of arboreal lizards in the family Agamidae. The genus is endemic to Melanesia.

Species

, Hypsilurus contains the following 18 species:

• Hypsilurus auritus

• Hypsilurus binotatus – two-marked forest dragon

• Hypsilurus bruijnii – Bruijn's forest dragon

• Hypsilurus capreolatus

• Hypsilurus geelvinkianus – New Guinea forest dragon

• Hypsilurus godeffroyi – northern forest dragon

• Hypsilurus hikidanus – Hikida's forest dragon

• Hypsilurus longi – Long's forest dragon

• Hypsilurus macrolepis

• Hypsilurus magnus

• Hypsilurus modestus – modest forest dragon

• Hypsilurus nigrigularis

• Hypsilurus ornatus – Denzer's forest dragon

• Hypsilurus papuensis – Papua forest dragon

• Hypsilurus schoedei – Vogt's forest dragon

• Hypsilurus schultzewestrumi

• Hypsilurus spinosus

• Hypsilurus tenuicephalus

Three species previously assigned to the genus Hypsilurus have now been moved to the genus Lophosaurus:

• Hypsilurus boydii (Macleay, 1884) – Boyd's forest dragon

• Hypsilurus dilophus (A.M.C. Duméril & Bibron, 1837) – Indonesian forest dragon

• Hypsilurus spinipes (A.M.C. Duméril & A.H.A. Duméril, 1851) – southern forest dragon, southern angle-headed dragon

Nota bene: A binomial authority in parentheses indicates that the species was originally described in a genus other than Hypsilurus.

References

Further reading

• Manthey U, Denzer W (2016). "Melanesian anglehead lizards of the genus Hypsilurus Peters, 1867 – Part 1: Species from New Guinea". Sauria 38 (3): 11–36.

• Peters W (1867). "Über Flederthiere ... und Amphibien ( Hypsilurus ... )". Monatsberichte der Königlich-Preussischen Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Berlin 1867: 703–712. (Hypsilurus, new subgenus, pp.707–708). (in German).