Laudakia tuberculata
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Reptilia
Order: Squamata
Suborder: Iguania
Family: Agamidae
Genus: Laudakia
Species:
L. tuberculata
Binomial name
Laudakia tuberculata
(Gray, 1827)
Synonyms[2]

Agama tuberculata – basionym
Stellio tuberculatus
Stellio indicus Blyth, 1853

Laudakia tuberculata (Kashmir rock agama or tuberculated agama) is a species of agamid lizard found in northern Pakistan, northern India (W Himalaya, Kashmir, Punjab), Nepal, eastern Afghanistan (needs confirmation[1]), and western China (Tibetan Plateau).[1][2]

Description

"Head much depressed; snout longer than the diameter of the orbit; nostril lateral, below the canthus rostralis, slightly tubular. Upper-head scales smooth or feebly keeled: occipital not enlarged; small, closely set spinose scales on the sides of the head near the ear and the neck; ear entirely exposed, larger than the eye-opening. Throat strongly plicate; no gular pouch. Body depressed, with a more or less distinct fold on each side of the back; scales on the neck and sides minute, almost granular, keeled, uniform, or intermixed with scattered enlarged scales; those on the vertebral region enlarged, equal, rhomboidal, imbricate, strongly keeled; a very slight indication of a nuchal denticulation; ventral scales smooth, nearly as large as the enlarged dorsals. Limbs strong, with compressed digits; the scales on the upper surface of the limbs much enlarged and very strongly keeled; third and fourth fingers equal, or fourth very slightly longer; fourth toe slightly longer than third, fifth extending beyond first. Tail rounded, much depressed at the base, covered with moderate-sized strongly keeled scales arranged in rings; its length equals 2.5 to 3 times the distance from gular fold to vent.

Males with a large patch of thickened preanal scales and a patch of similar scales on the middle of the belly. Olive-brown above, spotted or speckled with blackish, sometimes with small yellowish spots; the breeding male's throat blue, with light spots; sometimes a light vertebral band."[3]

Habitat

Laudakia tuberculata inhabits rocky montane areas at elevations of 790–3,660 m (2,590–12,010 ft) above sea level.[1]

Cited references

  1. 1 2 3 4 Das, A.; Huang, S.; Shi, L. (2021). "Laudakia tuberculata". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2021: e.T47751975A47751989. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2021-3.RLTS.T47751975A47751989.en. Retrieved 20 April 2022.
  2. 1 2 Laudakia tuberculata at the Reptarium.cz Reptile Database. Accessed 20 April 2022.
  3. ↑ Boulenger, G. A. (1890). Fauna of British India, including Ceylon and Burma. Vol. Reptilia and Batrachia. London: Taylor and Francis. 570 pp.

References

  • Ananjeva, N.B. & Tuniev 1994 Some aspects of historical biogeography of Asian rock agamids Russ. J. Herpetol. 1 (1): 43
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