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Behold the pricklenape lizard! It was scientifically described in 2006. This species, and others in the genus Acanthosaura, are called mountain horned dragons or pricklenape agamas. They're named after their prickly-looking dorsal spines. Photo: Yuzefovich Alexander, CC BY-NC 4.0, iNaturalist

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At a guess one of those names is specifically about the larger, more prominently-pigmented dorsal spines on the nape of the neck 🙂 Very Shakespearian-English... easy to imagine 'Thou prickle-nape!" thrown as an insult in one of his plays if ruffs had become unfashionable in his day 😉