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Hubrecht's eyebrow lizard (''Phoxophrys tuberculata'') is an
agamid Agamidae is a family of over 300 species of iguanian lizards indigenous to Africa, Asia, Australia, and a few in Southern Europe. Many species are commonly called dragons or dragon lizards. Overview Phylogenetically, they may be sister to the I ...
lizard Lizards are a widespread group of squamate reptiles, with over 7,000 species, ranging across all continents except Antarctica, as well as most oceanic island chains. The group is paraphyletic since it excludes the snakes and Amphisbaenia alt ...
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. It is monotypic in the genus ''Phoxophrys'', although all species in the genus ''
Pelturagonia ''Pelturagonia'' is a genus of lizards within the Family (biology), family Agamidae. The species are distributed in Sumatra and Borneo. All species were previously listed under the genus ''Phoxophrys''. Description The genus ''Pelturagonia'' clo ...
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Further reading

* Hubrecht AAW (1881). "On a new genus and species of Agamidae from Sumatra". ''Notes from the Leyden Museum'' 3: 51–52. (''Phoxophrys'' new genus; ''P. tuberculata'', new species). Agamidae Monotypic lizard genera Taxa named by Ambrosius Hubrecht {{agamidae-stub