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Dumpy dragon

Pogona henrylawsoni Wells & Wellington, 1985

Status not recordedlizards

The dumpy dragon (Pogona henrylawsoni) is a species in the family Agamidae, order Squamata. Recorded adults weigh about 62.4 g and reach 12.2 cm in length. Source checklists list it for 1 country: Australia.

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Quick facts about the dumpy dragon

Weight
62.4 g
Length
12.2 cm
Lifespan
Not recorded
Diet
Carnivore
Main food
Not recorded
Habitat
grassland, shrubland
Young per litter or clutch
4 – 19
Reproduction
Eggs
Active
By day (diurnal)
Lifestyle
Terrestrial
Conservation status
Not recorded
Countries on record
1 countrysrc for Countries on record

How big is the dumpy dragon?

DUMPY DRAGON · LENGTH 12.2 CMADULT HUMAN · HEIGHT 1.7 M
At 12.2 cm, the recorded maximum length of the dumpy dragon is about 7.2% of the height of an adult human (1.7 m, a fixed reference used for scale).

Where does the dumpy dragon live?

Countries where Catalogue of Life checklists list the species. Many checklists carry no country data, so the list is often incomplete. It is not a range map.

The dumpy dragon is listed for 1 country.

Australia
  • Listed
  • Not listed
small islands are not drawn at this scale

The same countries as a list

  1. Australia

Is the dumpy dragon endangered?

No conservation assessment is recorded for this species in our sources. That is not the same as being safe: it has not been matched to an assessment.

How is the dumpy dragon classified?

  1. kingdomAnimalia
  2. phylumChordata
  3. classReptilia
  4. orderSquamata
  5. familyAgamidae
  6. genusPogona
  7. SpeciesPogona henrylawsoni Wells & Wellington, 1985

Synonyms Pogona brevis, Pogona rankini

Other names and names in other languages (15)
  • Black-soil bearded dragonEnglish
  • Downs bearded dragonEnglish
  • Dwarf bearded dragonEnglish
  • Lawson's dragonEnglish
  • Rankin's dragonEnglish
  • agama trpasličíCzech
  • Zwerg BartagameGerman
  • Dragón barbudo de RankinSpanish
  • Agame barbu de LawsonFrench
  • Henry Lawson szakállasagámájaHungarian
  • ローソンアゴヒゲトカゲJapanese
  • Agama karłowataPolish
  • Dragão-barbudo-de-rankinPortuguese
  • 侏儒鬃獅蜥Chinese
  • Lawsons BartagameGerman

Catalogue of Life

Relatives of the dumpy dragon

Other species in the same genus Pogona.

Jew lizard

Pogona barbata

AgamidaeNo free photo yet

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Common questions

Answered only where our data holds the answer.

How big is the dumpy dragon?

An adult dumpy dragon weighs 62.4 g and measures 12.2 cm long, according to values recorded on Wikidata.

Where does the dumpy dragon live?

Catalogue of Life checklists list the dumpy dragon for 1 country: Australia. Checklist coverage is uneven, so the true range may be wider.

What kind of animal is the dumpy dragon?

The dumpy dragon (Pogona henrylawsoni) belongs to the family Agamidae in the order Squamata.

Sources and how to cite this page

Data as of 2026-11-11. How this page is put together.

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APA

CreatureData. (2026). Dumpy dragon (Pogona henrylawsoni). Retrieved from https://creaturedata.com/animals/dumpy-dragon

MLA

“Dumpy dragon (Pogona henrylawsoni).” CreatureData, 2026, https://creaturedata.com/animals/dumpy-dragon.

BibTeX
@misc{dumpy_dragon_2026,
  title = {Dumpy dragon (Pogona henrylawsoni)},
  author = {{CreatureData}},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://creaturedata.com/animals/dumpy-dragon},
  note = {Data as of 2026-11-11}
}