Laudakia

Laudakia is a genus of lizards, commonly known as Asian rock agamas, in the family Agamidae. The genus is found mostly in Asia, with some species in Southern Europe.

Taxonomy

Some species of Laudakia, sensu lato, are now recognized in the new genera Paralaudakia found in Eurasia. For African agamas see the genera Agama and Acanthocercus.

Species and subspecies

Listed alphabetically.<ref>Template:EMBL genus. www.reptile-database.org.</ref>

• Laudakia agrorensis Template:Small – Agror agama
• Laudakia cypriaca Template:Small – Cyprus rock agama
• Laudakia dayana Template:Small – Haridwar agama
• Laudakia melanura Template:Small – black agama
• Laudakia nupta Template:Small – large-scaled (rock) agama
  • Laudakia nupta nupta Template:Small
  • Laudakia nupta fusca Template:Small
• Laudakia nuristanica Template:Small – Leviton's rock agama<ref name=EDR/>
• Laudakia pakistanica Template:Small – Pakistani agama
  • Laudakia pakistanica pakistanica Template:Small
  • Laudakia pakistanica auffenbergi Template:Small
  • Laudakia pakistanica khani Template:Small
• Laudakia papenfussi Template:Small – Papenfuss's rock agama<ref name=EDR>Beolens, Bo; Watkins, Michael; Grayson, Michael (2011). The Eponym Dictionary of Reptiles. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. xiii + 296 pp. Template:ISBN. (Acanthocercus adramitanus, p. 8; Laudakia nuristanica, p. 157; L. papenfussi, p. 200; L. wui, p. 290).</ref>
• Laudakia sacra Template:Small – Anan's rock agama
• Laudakia stellio Template:Small – starred agama, roughtail rock agama
  • Laudakia stellio daani Template:Small
  • Laudakia stellio stellio Template:Small
• Laudakia tuberculata Template:Small – tuberculated agama, Kashmir rock agama
• Laudakia vulgaris Template:Small<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation

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• • Laudakia vulgaris vulgaris Template:Small
  • Laudakia vulgaris brachydactyla Template:Small
  • Laudakia vulgaris picea Template:Small
• Laudakia wui Template:Small – Wui's rock agama<ref name=EDR/>

Moved to genus Acanthocercus

• Acanthocercus adramitanus Template:Small – Anderson's rock agama<ref name=EDR/>
• Acanthocercus atricollis Template:Small – black-necked tree agama

Moved to genus Paralaudakia

• Paralaudakia badakhshana Template:Small – Badakhshana rock agama
• Paralaudakia bochariensis Template:Small
• Paralaudakia caucasia Template:Small – Caucasian agama
• Paralaudakia erythrogastra Template:Small – redbelly rock agama
• Paralaudakia himalayana Template:Small – Himalayan agama
• Paralaudakia lehmanni Template:Small – Turkestan agama
• Paralaudakia microlepis Template:Small – small-scaled agama
• Paralaudakia stoliczkana Template:Small – Mongolian rock agama

Nota bene: A binomial authority or trinomial authority in parentheses indicates that the species or subspecies was originally described in a different genus.

Further reading

• Baig KJ, Wagner P, Ananjeva NB, Böhme W (2012). "A morphology-based taxonomic revision of Laudakia Gray, 1845 (Squamata: Agamidae)". Vertebrate Zoology 62 (2): 213-260. (Paralaudakia and Stellagama, new genera).
• Gray JE (1845). Catalogue of the Specimens of Lizards in the Collection of the British Museum. London: Trustees of the British Museum. (Edward Newman, printer). xxviii + 289 pp. (Laudakia, new genus, p. 254).
• Sindaco R, Jeremčenko VK (2008). The Reptiles of the Western Palearctic. 1. Annotated Checklist and Distributional Atlas of the Turtles, Crocodiles, Amphisbaenians and Lizards of Europe, North Africa, Middle East and Central Asia. (Monographs of the Societas Herpetologica Italica). Latina, Italy: Edizioni Belvedere. 580 pp. Template:ISBN.

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