Laudakia

Laudakia is a genus of lizards, commonly known as Asian rock agamas, in the family Agamidae. The genus is endemic to Asia.

Laudakia
Kashmir rock agama (Laudakia tuberculata)
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Reptilia
Order:	Squamata
Suborder:	Iguania
Family:	Agamidae
Subfamily:	Agaminae
Genus:	Laudakia Gray, 1845

Taxonomy

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

Species and subspecies

Listed alphabetically.[1]

• Laudakia agrorensis (Stoliczka, 1872) – Agror agama
• Laudakia dayana (Stoliczka, 1871) – Haridwar agama
• Laudakia melanura Blyth, 1854 – black agama
• Laudakia nupta (De Filippi, 1843) – large-scaled (rock) agama
  • Laudakia nupta nupta (De Filippi, 1843)
  • Laudakia nupta fusca (Blanford, 1876)
• Laudakia nuristanica (S. Anderson & Leviton, 1969) – Leviton's rock agama[2]
• Laudakia pakistanica (Baig, 1989) – Pakistan agama
  • Laudakia pakistanica pakistanica (Baig, 1989)
  • Laudakia pakistanica auffenbergi Baig & Böhme, 1996
  • Laudakia pakistanica khani Baig & Böhme, 1996
• Laudakia papenfussi Zhao, 1998 – Papenfuss's rock agama[2]
• Laudakia sacra (M.A. Smith, 1935) – Anan's rock agama
• Laudakia tuberculata (Gray, 1827) – Kashmir rock agama
• Laudakia wui Zhao, 1998 – Wui's rock agama[2]

Moved to genus Acanthocercus

• Acanthocercus adramitanus (J. Anderson, 1896) – Anderson's rock agama[2]
• Acanthocercus atricollis (A. Smith, 1849) – black-necked tree agama

Moved to genus Paralaudakia

• Paralaudakia badakhshana (S. Anderson & Leviton, 1969) – Badakhshana rock agama
• Paralaudakia bochariensis (Nikolsky, 1897)
• Paralaudakia caucasia (Eichwald, 1831) – Caucasian agama
• Paralaudakia erythrogastra (Nikolsky, 1896) – redbelly rock agama
• Paralaudakia himalayana (Steindachner, 1867) – Himalayan agama
• Paralaudakia lehmanni (Nikolsky, 1896) – Turkestan agama
• Paralaudakia microlepis (Blanford, 1874) – small-scaled agama
• Paralaudakia stoliczkana (Blanford, 1875) – Mongolian rock agama

Moved to genus Stellagama

• Stellagama stellio (Linnaeus, 1758) – stellion or roughtail 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.

References

1. Genus Laudakia at The Reptile Database. www.reptile-database.org.
2. Beolens, Bo; Watkins, Michael; Grayson, Michael (2011). The Eponym Dictionary of Reptiles. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. xiii + 296 pp. ISBN 978-1-4214-0135-5. (Acanthocercus adramitanus, p. 8; Laudakia nuristanica, p. 157; L. papenfussi, p. 200; L. wui, p. 290).

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. ISBN 978-88-89504-14-7.