Lophosaurus is a genus of arboreal agamid lizards from Australia and Melanesia.
Species , Lophosaurus contains the following 3 species:
Lophosaurus boydii (Macleay, 1884) – Boyd's forest dragon Lophosaurus dilophus (A.M.C. Duméril & Bibron, 1837) – Indonesian forest dragon Lophosaurus 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 Lophosaurus.
References
Further reading
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).