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Higher TaxaAgamidae (Agaminae), Sauria, Iguania, Squamata (lizards)
SubspeciesPhrynocephalus raddei boettgeri VON BEDRIAGA 1906
Phrynocephalus raddei raddei BOETTGER 1888 
Common Names 
SynonymPhrynocephalus raddei BOETTGER 1888: 262
Phrynocephalus reticulatus EICHWALD 1831 (fide KHALIKOV, pers. comm.)
Phrynocephalus raddei var. bilkewitschi NIKOLSKY 1915: 194
Phrynocephalus reticulatus boettgeri — LANGERWERF 1980
Phrynocephalus raddei — ANDERSON 1999
Phrynocephalus raddei — MACEY et al. 2000
Phrynocephalus (Phrynocephalus) raddei — BARABANOV & ANANJEVA 2007
Phrynocephalus raddei — SINDACO & JEREMČENKO 2008
Phrynocephalus raddei raddei BOETTGER 1888
Phrynocephalus raddei — NASRABADI et al. 2017

Phrynocephalus raddei boettgeri VON BEDRIAGA 1906
Phrynocephalus raddei var. boettgeri BEDRIAGA In NIKOLSKY 1905: 468
Phrynocephalus raddei var. boettgeri BEDRIAGA 1907: 217
Phrynocephalus raddei var. zardunyi NIKOLSKY 1915: 194
Phrynocephalus raddei boettgeri — SINDACO & JEREMČENKO 2008
Phrynocephalus raddei boettgeri — MILTO & BARABANOV 2012
Phrynocephalus raddei boettgeri — ANANJEVA et al. 2020
Phrynocephalus boettgeri — SOLOVYEVA et al. 2023 
DistributionS Turkmenia, S Uzbekistan, SW Tajikistan, Iran, N Afghanistan

Type locality: "Perewalnaja an der transcaspischen Bahn" [= Perevalnaja railroad station, southwestern Turkmenistan].

boettgeri: Uzbekistan

zarudnyi: Turkmenistan; Type locality: “Kelif, Buchara orient.” [Kelif, Lebap Province, Turkmenistan, 37.36 N 66.31 E].  
Reproductionoviparous 
TypesLectotype: SMF 10247 (designated by Mertens, 1967: 63), (formerly 4369a), syntype: NMW 23344
Lectotype: ZISP 6117.1, adult female, (designated by Barabnov & Ananjeva 2007: 15) [boettgeri]
Lectotype: ZISP 10722.1, adult male (designated by Barabanov & Ananjeva, 2007) [zardunyi] 
DiagnosisDiagnosis: Upper surface of snout fairly steeply truncated, nostrils not visible or faintly noticeable when viewed from above; no cutaneous fold at angle of mouth; dorsal scales subequal, homogeneous; no transverse fold of skin across back of neck; sides ofhead and neck without projecting fringe-like scales; no fringe of scales on posterior margin of thigh and sides of base of tail; no enlarged scales along flank; no tubercular scales on dorsum; scales of upper surfaces of limbs and midline of back prominently keeled. A half-moon-shaped red patch on each scapular region, 21-24 lamellae under fourth toe; ridges on subdigital lamellae of third toe approximately uniformly developed in 3 rows (Anderson 1999: 96). 
CommentSynonymy: Listed as synonym of Phrynocephalus reticulatus by WERMUTH 1967. P. r. boettgeri is a synonym of raddei according to BARABANOV & ANANJEVA 2007.

Group: The raddei group includes P. bannikovi; P. boettgeri; P. ocellatus; P. raddei; P. rossikowi; P. strauchi, fide SOLOVYEVA et al. 2023. 
EtymologyNamed after Gustav Ferdinand Richard Radde (1831-1903), an apothecary. Born in Danzig, Prussia (Gdansk, Poland), he moved to Russia (1852). He was on numerous expeditions through Siberia, the Crimea, the Caucasus, Trans-Caucasus, and other regions of Russia, and also Iran and Turkey. 
References
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  • Ananjeva, Natalia B.;Tuniyev, Boris S. 1992. Historical biogeography of the Phrynocephalus species of the USSR. Asiatic Herpetological Research 4: 76-98 - get paper here
  • Ananjeva, NB, Orlov NL; Khalikov RG; Darevsky IS; Ryabov IS & Barabanov AV 2006. The Reptiles of North Eurasia. Taxonomic Diversity, Distribution, Conservation Status [this comprises the territory of the former Soviet Union and Mongolia]. Pensoft Series Faunistica 47, 250 pp.
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  • BARABANOV, A.V. & N.B. ANANJEVA 2007. Catalogue of the available scientific species-group names for lizards of the genus Phrynocephalus Kaup, 1825 (Reptilia, Sauria, Agamidae). Zootaxa 1399: 1-56 - get paper here
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