Laudakia badakhshana

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Badakhshana Rock Agama
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Reptilia
Order: Squamata
Suborder: Iguania
Family: Agamidae
Genus: Laudakia
Species: L. badakhshana
Binomial name
Laudakia badakhshana
Ananjeva & Tuniev, 1994
Synonyms

Agama badakhshana
Stellio badakhshana

The Badakhshana Rock Agama Laudakia badakhshana is an agamid lizard found in NE Afghanistan, N Pakistan, Occupied Kashmir, China (Xinjiang), SE Turkmenistan, eastward through Tajikistan to W Kyrgyzstan.

Type locality: Mazar-i-Sharif, northern Afghanistan, 36° 34' N, 67° 05' E, 457 m elevation.


[edit] References

  • Ananjeva N B; Peters G; Rzepakovsky V T 1981 New species of the mountain agamas from Tadjikistan, Agama chernovi sp. nov. TRUDY ZOOLOGICHESKOGO INSTITUTA AKADEMII NAUK SSSR 101 1981: 23-27
  • Ananjeva, N.B. & Tuniev 1994 Some aspects of historical biogeography of Asian rock agamids Russ. J. Herpetol. 1 (1): 43
  • Baig,K.J. & Böhme,W. 1995 Partition of the Stellio-group of Agama. 8th Ord. Gen. Meet. Soc. Europ. Herpet.: 36