{{Short description|Genus of lizards}} {{Italic title}} {{Automatic taxobox | name = ''Lophosaurus'' | image = Boyd's Forest Dragon on tree Alt Edit3.jpg | image_caption = ''Lophosaurus boydii'' | taxon = Lophosaurus | authority = Fitzinger, 1843{{r|Fitzinger}}<ref>{{ITIS|id=1055396 |taxon=''Lophosaurus'' Fitzinger, 1843 |accessdate=31 January 2018}}</ref> }}

'''''Lophosaurus''''' is a genus of arboreal agamid lizards from Australia and Melanesia.<ref name=Honda>{{Cite journal | last1 = Honda | first1 = M. |author1-link=species:Masanao Honda|last2 = Ota | first2 = H. |author2-link=species:Hidetoshi Ota|last3 = Sengoku | first3 = S. |author3-link=species:Showichi Sengoku|last4 = Yong | first4 = H.-S. |author4-link=species:Hoi-Sen Yong|last5 = Hikida | first5 = T. |author5-link=species:Tsutomu Hikida|name-list-style=amp | title = Molecular evaluation of phylogenetic significances in the highly divergent karyotypes of the genus ''Gonocephalus'' (Reptilia: Agamidae) from tropical Asia | doi = 10.2108/zsj.19.129 | journal = Zoological Science | volume = 19 | issue = 1 | pages = 129–133 | year = 2002 | pmid = 12025399| url = https://tsukuba.repo.nii.ac.jp/?action=repository_action_common_download&item_id=18489&item_no=1&attribute_id=17&file_no=1 | hdl = 2241/104127 | s2cid = 38549668 | hdl-access = free }}</ref>

==Species== {{as of|2016}}, ''Lophosaurus'' contains the following 3 species:<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Denzer |first1=Wolfgang |author1-link=species:Wolfgang Denzer|last2=Manthey |first2=Ulrich |author2-link=species:Ulrich Manthwy|name-list-style=amp |title=Remarks on the taxonomy and nomenclature of the genus ''Hypsilurus'' Peters, 1867 (Reptilia, Agamidae, Amphibolurinae)|journal=Zoosystematics and Evolution |date=2016 |volume=92 |pages=103–110 |doi=10.3897/zse.92.7469|doi-access=free }}</ref>

*''Lophosaurus boydii'' <small>(Macleay, 1884)</small> – Boyd's forest dragon *''Lophosaurus dilophus'' <small>(A.M.C. Duméril & Bibron, 1837)</small> – Indonesian forest dragon *''Lophosaurus spinipes'' <small>(A.M.C. Duméril & A.H.A. Duméril, 1851)</small> – 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== {{Reflist| <ref name="Fitzinger">{{cite book |last1=Fitzinger|first1=L.|author1-link=Leopold Fitzinger|date=1843|title= Systema reptilium. Fasciculus primus, Amblyglossae |location=Vienna|publisher= Braumüller et Seidel| page = [https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/23715#page/23/mode/1up 15], [https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/23715#page/53/mode/1up 45] | language = la}}</ref> }}

==Further reading== {{Wikispecies}} *Peters W. 1867. "''Über Flederthiere ... und Amphibien ('' Hypsilurus ... '')''". ''Monatsberichte der Königlich-Preussischen Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Berlin'' '''1867''': 703-712. (''Hypsilurus'', new subgenus, pp.&nbsp;707–708). (in German).

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Category:Lophosaurus Category:Lizard genera Category:Agamid lizards of Australia Category:Reptiles of Oceania Category:Taxa named by Leopold Fitzinger