Laudakia

Superregnum: Eukaryota
Cladus: Unikonta
Cladus: Opisthokonta
Cladus: Holozoa
Regnum: Animalia
Subregnum: Eumetazoa
Cladus: Bilateria
Cladus: Nephrozoa
Superphylum: Deuterostomia
Phylum: Chordata
Subphylum: Vertebrata
Infraphylum: Gnathostomata
Megaclassis: Osteichthyes
Cladus: Sarcopterygii
Cladus: Rhipidistia
Cladus: Tetrapodomorpha
Cladus: Eotetrapodiformes
Cladus: Elpistostegalia
Superclassis: Tetrapoda
Cladus: Reptiliomorpha
Cladus: Amniota
Classis: Reptilia
Cladus: Eureptilia
Cladus: Romeriida
Subclassis: Diapsida
Cladus: Sauria
Infraclassis: Lepidosauromorpha
Superordo: Lepidosauria
Ordo: Squamata
Cladus: Unidentata Episquamata Toxicofera
Subordo: Iguania
Infraordo: Acrodonta

Familia: Agamidae
Subfamilia: Agaminae
Genus: Laudakia
Species (13): L. agrorensis – L. cypriaca – L. dayana – L. melanura – L. nupta – L. nuristanica – L. pakistanica – L. papenfussi – L. sacra – L. stellio – L. tuberculata – L. vulgaris – L. wui
Name

Laudakia Gray, 1845: 232

Type species: Agama tuberculata Gray, 1827, by monotypy.

References
Primary references

Gray, J.E. 1845. Catalogue of the specimens of lizards in the collection of the British Museum. Trustees of die British Museum/Edward Newman: London. xxvii + 289 pp. BHL Reference page.

Additional references

Baig, K.J., Wagner, P., Ananjeva, N.B. & Böhme, W. 2012. A morphology-based taxonomic revision of Laudakia Gray, 1845 (Squamata: Agamidae). Vertebrate Zoology 62(2): 213–260. PDF Reference page.
Pyron, R.A., Burbrink, F.T. & Wiens, J.J. 2013. A phylogeny and revised classification of Squamata, including 4161 species of lizards and snakes. BMC Evolutionary Biology 13: 93. DOI: 10.1186/1471-2148-13-93 Open access Reference page.
Karameta, E., Lymberakis, P., Grillitsch, H., Ilgaz, Ç., Avcı, A., Kumlutaş, Y., Candan, K., Wagner, P., Sfenthourakis, S., Pafilis, P. & Poulakakis, N. 2022. The story of a rock-star: multilocus phylogeny and species delimitation in the starred or roughtail rock agama, Laudakia stellio (Reptilia: Agamidae). Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 195(1): 195–219. DOI: 10.1093/zoolinnean/zlab107 Paywall Reference page.

Links

Uetz, P. & Hallermann, J. 2022. Laudakia . The Reptile Database. Accessed on 17 May 2022.

Vernacular names
English: Asian Rock Agamas
русский: Горные агамы

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

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.[1]

Laudakia agrorensis (Stoliczka, 1872) – Agror agama
Laudakia cypriaca (Daan, 1967) – Cyprus rock 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) – Pakistani 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 stellio (Linnaeus, 1758) – starred agama, roughtail rock agama
Laudakia stellio daani (Beutler & Frör, 1980)
Laudakia stellio stellio (Linnaeus, 1758)
Laudakia tuberculata (Gray, 1827) – tuberculated agama, Kashmir rock agama
Laudakia vulgaris (Sonnini & Latreille, 1801) – Egyptian rock agama
Laudakia vulgaris brachydactyla (Haas, 1951)
Laudakia vulgaris picea (Parker, 1935)
Laudakia vulgaris salehi Y. Werner in Lachmann et al., 2006
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

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

Genus Laudakia at The Reptile Database. www.reptile-database.org.

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.