Hypsilurus bruijnii, also known commonly as the Bruijn forest dragon, the Bruijni forest dragon, and Bruijn's forest dragon, is a species of lizard in the family Agamidae. The species is native to Indonesia and Papua New Guinea.
Etymology The specific name, bruijnii, is in honor of Dutch naturalist Anton August Bruijn.Beolens B, Watkins M, Grayson M (2011). The Eponym Dictionary of Reptiles. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. xiii + 296 pp. . (Hypsilurus bruijnii, p. 41).
Habitat The natural habitat of H. bruijnii is rainforest.
Description Medium-sized for its genus, H. bruijnii may attain a snout-to-vent length (SVL) of , with a tail length of .Boulenger GA (1885). Catalogue of the Lizards in the British Museum (Natural History). Second Edition. Volume I ... Agamidæ. London: Trustees of the British Museum (Natural History). (Taylor & Francis, printers). xii + 436 pp. + Plates I–XXXII. (Gonyocephalus bruijnii, p. 295).
Reproduction H. bruijnii is oviparous.
References
Further reading Peters W, Doria G (1978). "Catalogo dei rettili e dei batraci raccolti da O. Beccari, L. M. D' Albertis e A. A. Bruijn nella sotto-regione austro-malese". Annali del Museo Civico di Storia Naturale di Genova, [First Series] 13: 323–450 + Plates I–VII. ("Gonyocephalus (Hypsilurus) Bruijnii ", new species, pp. 379–380). (in Italian and Latin).