Hydrosaurus pustulatus is the scientific name of an enormous reptile of the tropical forest of the Philippines most known as aquatic lizard of sail. It measures up to a meter long, and shows a toothed comb that starts in the neck and covers all his back. The tail of this lizard ends in a piece of triangular skin, 8 centimeters high, which has sail aspect and which it helps him to move promptly in the water, where it spends a lot of time. Probably also it uses this appendix to mark territory and to improve his termorregulación (the control of the corporal temperature), since there increases the surface that exhibits to the sun to warm up.
It is included in the red list of vulnerable species of the UICN.
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