Asian mountain agamas ( lat. Laudakia ) - a genus of lizards of the agamic family.
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 Agama Stolichki ( Laudakia stoliczkana ) | ||||||||||||||
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| Laudakia Gray , 1845 |
Previously united with the African genus Acanthocerus in the genus Stellio , and before that belonged to the genus Agama [1] .
Species composition
As a part of the genus, 20 species are distinguished [2] , of which 6 species are distributed on the territory of Northern Eurasia (countries of the former USSR and Mongolia) (marked *):
- Laudakia agrorensis
- Laudakia badakhshana
- Laudakia bochariensis
- Laudakia caucasia - Caucasian agama *
- Laudakia chernovi - Agama Chernova *
- Laudakia dayana
- Laudakia erythrogastra - Khorasan agama *
- Laudakia fusca
- Laudakia himalayana - Himalayan agama *
- Laudakia lehmanni - Turkestan agama *
- Laudakia melanura - black agama
- Laudakia microlepis - small scale agama
- Laudakia nupta - Large Scale Agama
- Laudakia nuristanica - nuristan agama
- Laudakia pakistanica
- Laudakia papenfussi
- Laudakia sacra
- Laudakia stellio - agama gardun, or stelion
- Laudakia stoliczkana - Agama Stolichki *
- Laudakia tuberculata - Kashmir Agama
- Laudakia wui
Caucasian Agama
Agama gardun
Himalayan Agama
Kashmir Agama
Notes
- ↑ Ananyeva N. B. , Orlov N. L. , Khalikov R. G. , Darevsky I. S. , Ryabov S. A. , Barabanov A. V. Atlas of reptiles of Northern Eurasia (taxonomic diversity, geographical distribution and conservation status) . - SPb. : Zoological Institute RAS, 2004. - S. 48-51. - 1000 copies. - ISBN 5-98092-007-2 .
- ↑ The Reptile Database: genus Laudakia