Reptilia · Squamata
Thorny Devil
Moloch horridus
Covered head to tail in hardened conical spines, including a false 'head' bulge on the back of its neck that it presents to a predator by tucking its real head between its front legs.
- Realm
- Terrestrial
- Conservation status
- LCLeast Concern
This range is an occurrence-derived learning extent, not an official assessment range map. See the methodology page for the complete pipeline. GBIF.org occurrence density (GBIF Maps API v2) · 1° global raster; derived from GBIF per-cell occurrence density, vagrant-trimmed by a cumulative record-count threshold, morphologically closed, small-and-distant components pruned, clipped to a Natural Earth 1:110m realm mask.
Method and versionA sample of openly-licensed occurrence records retained after quality filtering. 1450 licence-filtered records across 169 1° cells, retrieved 2026-08-24.
Inspect on GBIFRetained datasets (27)
- ANWC salvage pre-Nagoya (12/10/2014) (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode)
- Australian Wildlife Conservancy Surveys (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode)
- Collated dataset from original version of the Northern Territory Fauna Atlas (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode)
- Cravens Peak fauna survey (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode)
- GBIF mediated dataset (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode)
- GBIF mediated dataset (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode)
- GBIF mediated dataset (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode)
- GBIF mediated dataset (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode)
- GBIF mediated dataset (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode)
- GBIF mediated dataset (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/legalcode)
- GBIF mediated dataset (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode)
- GBIF mediated dataset (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/legalcode)
- GBIF mediated dataset (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode)
- GBIF mediated dataset (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode)
- GBIF mediated dataset (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/legalcode)
- GBIF mediated dataset (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/legalcode)
- GBIF mediated dataset (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode)
- GBIF mediated dataset (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode)
- GBIF mediated dataset (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode)
- iNaturalist research-grade observations (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode)
- Incidental Fauna Observations (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode)
- Individual sighting (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode)
- LACM Vertebrates (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/legalcode)
- Nullarbor Regional Survey (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode)
- Royal Ontario Museum Herpetology (ROMH) (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode)
- University of Kansas Biodiversity Institute Herpetology Collection (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode)
- University of Michigan Museum of Zoology, Division of Reptiles & Amphibians (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode)