The Draco genus comprises the 'flying dragons', more properly called Gliding Lizards. They are able to glide because on each side of the body there is a wide flap of skin (the patagium) supported by movable elongated ribs. Males of the genus have a large throat fan or gular flag, which is extended as a territorial display or during courtship. Females sometimes possess small gular flags.

The Short-pouched Gliding Lizard is a large, cryptic species of tall, primary rainforest. Its mottled grey-green and brown dorsum is an effective camouflage on lichen-covered tree trunks.

It has a dark brown to black eye stripe on the side of the head : this is thin and discontinuous near the snout, but thickens behind the eye. The stripe merges with a thick, discontinuous, dark brown stripe along the ventral line which extends to the base of the tail.  Another shorter black stripe occurs below and parallel to the main eye stripe.

The species is named after the short gular flag of the female, however the male has a distinctive  long, thick, triangular salmon-pink gular flag.

The species is known to occur in at least southern Thailand and Peninsular Malaysia.

Family : Agamidae
Species : Draco abbreviatus
Size (snout to vent) : 11 cm ?
Size (total length) : > 20 cm ?

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All photos taken at Gunung Pulai, Johor, Peninsular Malaysia.