Laudakia nuristanica (ANDERSON & LEVITON, 1969)

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Higher Taxa	Agamidae (Agaminae), Sauria, Iguania, Squamata (lizards)
Subspecies
Common Names	E: Leviton's Rock Agama
Synonym	Agama nuristanica ANDERSON & LEVITON 1969: 39 Stellio nuristanicus — ANANJEVA et al. 1990: 113 Laudakia nuristanica — ANANJEVA & TUNIEV 1994: 43 Laudakia nuristanica — SINDACO & JEREMČENKO 2008 Laudakia nuristanica — BAIG et al. 2012: 246 Laudakia nuristanica — JABLONSKI et al. 2021
Distribution	E Afghanistan (Nuristan, Kunar, Panjshir, Parwan, Takhar), NW Pakistan (Chitral Valley) Type locality: Kamdesh, eastern Afghanistan, 1342 m elevation.
Reproduction	oviparous
Types	Holotype: FMNH 161136, paratype: CAS 115939; other specimens: ZFMK, PMNH, UOCH (see list in Jablosnki et al. 2021); specimens reported from UF are actually Paralaudakia caucasia (P. Uetz & D. Jablonski, pers. comm.)
Diagnosis	Diagnosis: Head and body depressed; tail longer than head and body; segmentation into whorls composed of four regular annuli barely distinct; about 45 scales around thickest part of tail; tympanum large, superficial; largest scales of back not arranged in regular rows and somewhat heterogeneous in size, a few about twice as large as largest ventral scales, strongly keeled, dorsolateral surfaces covered by minute granules (much smaller than found either in A. agrorensis or A. tuberculata flanks with scattered enlarged scales, not grouped in patches, small scales granular; limbs above covered with strongly hetero geneous scales, numerous greatly enlarged scales among much smaller ones, the smaller almost granular; large scales neither grouped in patches nor imbricate, but strongly spinose (Anderson & Leviton 1969: 40). Additional details (274 characters) are available for collaborators and contributors. Please contact us for details.
Comment	Abundance: rare; Only known from 17 specimens in five museum collections.
Etymology	Named after the type locality in Nuristan Province.
References	Ananjeva, N.B. & Tuniev 1994. Some aspects of historical biogeography of Asian rock agamids. Russ. J. Herpetol. 1 (1): 43 - get paper here Ananjeva, N.B.; Peters,G.; Macey & Papenfuss, T. 1990. Stellio sacra (Smith 1935) - a distinct species of Asiatic rock agamid from Tibet. Asiatic Herpetological Research 3: 104-115 - get paper here Anderson, S. C. & A. E. Leviton 1969. Amphibians and reptiles collected by the Street expedition to Afghanistan, 1965. Proc. Cal. Acad. Sci. (4) 37: 25-56 - get paper here Baig, K.J. 1988. New record of Agama nuristanica (Sauria: Agamidae) from Pakistan. Biologia, Islamabad, 34: 199-200 Baig, Khalid Javed; Philipp Wagner, Natalia B. Ananjeva & Wolfgang Böhme 2012. A morphology-based taxonomic revision of Laudakia Gray, 1845 (Squamata: Agamidae). Vertebrate Zoology 62 (2): 213-260 - get paper here Baig,K.J. & Böhme,W. 1995. Partition of the Stellio-group of Agama. 8th Ord. Gen. Meet. Soc. Europ. Herpet.: 36 Jablonski, D., Basit, A., Farooqi, J., & Masroor, R. 2021. Distribution and morphological characters of Laudakia nuristanica (Anderson & Leviton, 1969) from Afghanistan. Zoology in the Middle East 67(3): 240–246. - get paper here Khan, M. S. 2014. Herpetology of Pakistan FIELD GUIDE SERIES: Families Agamidae, Chamaeleonidae. Privately published, 39 pp. - get paper here Khan, M.S. 2003. CHECKLIST AND KEY TO THE LIZARDS OF PAKISTAN. Pakistan J. Zool. Suppl. Ser. (1): 1-25 - get paper here Sindaco, R. & Jeremcenko, V.K. 2008. The reptiles of the Western Palearctic. Edizioni Belvedere, Latina (Italy), 579 pp. - get paper here
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