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Also known as Draconine, Draconines

The Draconinae are a subfamily of reptiles in the family Agamidae found in southern Asia and Oceania. Some taxonomists believe these genera belong to the subfamily Agaminae.

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The Draconinae are a subfamily of reptiles in the family Agamidae found in southern Asia and Oceania. Some taxonomists believe these genera belong to the subfamily Agaminae.

==Genera== The subfamily includes the following genera: {| class="wikitable" |+ !Genus !Common name !Species !Images |- |Acanthosaura |mountain horned dragons |20 |frameless A. cardamomensis |- |Agasthyagama |Indian kangaroo lizard |1 |frameless A. beddomii |- |Aphaniotis |earless agamas |3 |frameless A. acutirostris |- |Bronchocela |Southeast Asian green forest lizards |15 |frameless B. cristatella |- |Calotes |garden lizards, bloodsuckers, and forest lizards |30 |frameless C. calotes |- |Ceratophora |horned lizards |6 |frameless C. aspera |- |Complicitus |blackthroated bloodsucker |1 | |- |Cophotis | |2 |frameless C. ceylanica |- |Cristidorsa |ridged dragons |2 |frameless C. otai |- |Dendragama |tree agamas |4 |frameless D. boulengeri |- |Diploderma | |47 |frameless D. swinhonis |- |Draco |'flying' dragons, or gliding lizards |41 |frameless D. taeniopterus |- |Gonocephalus | |17 |frameless G. grandis |- |Harpesaurus |nose-horned lizards |6 |frameless H. modiglianii |- |Hypsicalotes |Kinabalu crested agama |1 |frameless H. kinabaluensis |- |Japalura |japalures |8 |frameless J. variegata |- |Laodracon Brakels, Sitthivong, Wang, Nguyen & Poyarkov, 2023 |Laos karst dragon |1 | |- |Lophocalotes |Sumatra crested agamas |2 |frameless L. ludekingi |- |Lyriocephalus (Linnaeus, 1758) |hump-nosed lizard, lyreshead lizard |1 |frameless L. scutatus |- |Malayodracon |Robinson's anglehead lizard |1 | |- |Mantheyus Manthey & Nabhitabhata, 1991 |Phuwua rock agama |1 |frameless M. phuwuanensis |- |Microauris (Pal et al., 2018) |small-eared dragon |1 | |- |Monilesaurus | |4 |frameless M. rouxii |- |Otocryptis | |2 |frameless O. nigristigma |- |Pelturagonia |eyebrowed agamas |5 |frameless P. nigrilabris |- |Phoxophyrs Hubrecht, 1881 |Hubrecht's eyebrow lizard |1 |frameless P. tuberculata |- |Psammophilus | |2 |frameless P. dorsalis |- |Pseudocalotes |false bloodsuckers |23 |frameless P. floweri |- |Pseudocophotis | |2 | |- |Ptyctolaemus | |3 |frameless P. gularis |- |Salea | |2 |frameless S. anamallayana |- |Sarada |large fan-throated lizards |3 |frameless S. superba |- |Sitana |fan-throated lizards |15 |frameless S. marudhamneydhal |- |Tikiguania | | | |} ==References==

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