@Yoshistar888 When I went the electronic signage had them as Victorian Grassland Earless Dragon. The 2022 - 2023 inventory report also lists Tympanocryptis pinguicolla as being held at the Zoo.
@NathanTheAsian I’m still a bit sceptical, considering the amount of dragons they have and a suitable stand-in species they already had in Canberra Grassland Earless Dragon, and that the very enclosure at my last visit it had the Canberra Grassland Earless Dragons maybe they are Canberra but are just signing them as Victorian to provoke an interest into their conservation. If they actually are Victorian, then that’s huge that they’re confident enough in the species’s long term captive population to put individuals on display.
@Yoshistar888 I'm also rather unsure myself. What I find weird is that in the 2022-2023 inventory report it lists 49.33 Grassland Earless Dragons under the zoo's care on 1st of July 2022, despite the fact that the species was rediscovered in June of 2023. In the report, it also states that the numbers were reduced down to 11.5 on the 30th of June 2023.
The Grassland Earless Dragon was split into separate species in 2019 which is why T.pinguicolla was regarded as extinct in the first place. The ones listed in the report are most likely members of the other species. Perhaps the zoo just didn't update the taxonomy? I did find this article which suggests that there is currently a breeding programme in place at the zoo.
@NathanTheAsian The zoo has both species, I’m just trying to figure out which one they have on display at the moment, as I’m sceptical that it is Victorian as they have only just been established in captivity. They’ve had Canberra on display for at least two years now so that would be the reason they had dragons before the rediscovery, maybe the report is only counting Canberra Grassland Earless Dragons because at the time Victorian still would have been presumed extinct.
