Biology:Laudakia tuberculata

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Short description: Species of lizard


Laudakia tuberculata
Laudakia tuberculata, Uttarakhand, India.jpg
Scientific classification edit
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 tuberculatabasionym
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]

Gallery

Cited references

  1. 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 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. https://www.iucnredlist.org/species/47751975/47751989. Retrieved 20 April 2022. 
  2. 2.0 2.1 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. Reptilia and Batrachia. London: Taylor and Francis. pp. 570 pp. https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/bibliography/5490. 

References

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

External links

Wikidata ☰ Q1037118 entry