Phrynocephalus luteoguttatus BOULENGER, 1887

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Higher Taxa	Agamidae (Agaminae), Sauria, Iguania, Squamata (lizards)
Subspecies
Common Names	E: Yellow-speckled toad-headed agama
Synonym	Phrynocephalus luteoguttatus BOULENGER 1887: 497 Phrynocephalus luteo-guttatus — ALCOCK & FINN 1897 Phrynocephalus luteoguttatus — SMITH 1935: 235 Phrynocephalus luteoguttatus — WERMUTH 1967: 83 Phrynocephalus luteoguttatus — KHAN 1980: 132 Phrynocephalus luteoguttatus — KHAN 1999 Phrynocephalus (Phrynocephalus) luteoguttatus — BARABANOV & ANANJEVA 2007 Phrynocephalus luteoguttatus — SINDACO & JEREMČENKO 2008 Phrynocephalus (Microphrynocephalus) luteoguttatus — SOLOVYEVA et al. 2014
Distribution	SW Afghanistan, SW Pakistan (Baluchistan) Type locality: between Nushki and Helmand (border between Afghanistan and Baluchistan).
Reproduction	oviparous
Types	Syntypes: BMNH 1946.8.28.44-49 (was BMNH 86.9.21.62-64) and BMNH 1946.8.28.36-38 (was BMNH 86.9.21.69-71); ZISP 7363 (was BMNH cnu).
Diagnosis
Comment	Not in India according to KHAN 1999. DAS (1997) mentions it but presently doubtful for India. Not in Iran fide ŠMÍD et al. 2014 (lizard checklist Iran).
References	Alcock, A. W. & FINN,F. 1897. An account of the Reptilia collected by Dr. F.P. Maynard, Captain A.H. McMahon, C.I.E., and the members of the Afghan-Baluch Boundary Comission of 1896. J. Asiat. Soc. Bengal 65: 550-566 [1896] - get paper here Anderson, Steven C 1999. The lizards of Iran. Contributions to Herpetology Volume 15, Society for the Study of Amphibians and Reptiles, Saint Louis, Missouri: i-vii, 1-442 [review in Copeia 2000 (4): 1144] - get paper here 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 Boulenger, G. A. 1887. Catalogue of the lizards in the British Museum (Nat. Hist.) III. Lacertidae, Gerrhosauridae, Scincidae, Anelytropsidae, Dibamidae, Chamaeleontidae. London: 575 pp. - get paper here KAMALI, KAMRAN & STEVEN C. ANDERSON 2015. A New Iranian Phrynocephalus (Reptilia: Squamata: Agamidae) from the hottest place on earth and a key to the genus Phrynocephalus in southwestern Asia and Arabia. Zootaxa 3904 (2): 249–260 - get paper here Khan, M. S. 1999. A checklist and key to the phrynocephalid lizards of Pakistan, with ethnological notes (Squamata: Agamidae). Pakistan J. Zool. 31 (1): 17-24 - get paper here Khan, M.S. 1980. Affinities and zoogeography of herptiles of Pakistan. Biologia, 26(1-2): 113-171 Khan, M.S. 2003. CHECKLIST AND KEY TO THE LIZARDS OF PAKISTAN. Pakistan J. Zool. Suppl. Ser. (1): 1-25 - get paper here Leviton, Alan E. 1959. Report on a collection of reptiles from Afghanistan. Proc. Cal. Acad. Sci. 29 (12): 445-463 - get paper here Sindaco, R. & Jeremcenko, V.K. 2008. The reptiles of the Western Palearctic. Edizioni Belvedere, Latina (Italy), 579 pp. - get paper here Smith, M.A. 1935. The fauna of British India, including Ceylon and Burma. Reptiles and Amphibia, Vol. II. Sauria. Taylor and Francis, London, 440 pp. Solovyeva, E. N.; N. A. Poyarkov, E. A. Dunayev, R. A. Nazarov, V. S. Lebedev, and A. A. Bannikova 2014. Phylogenetic Relationships and Subgeneric Taxonomy of Toad-headed Agamas Phrynocephalus (Reptilia, Squamata, Agamidae) as Determined by Mitochondrial DNA Sequencing. Doklady Biological Sciences 455: 119–124. - get paper here Werner,F. 1895. Über eine Sammlung von Reptilien aus Persien, Mesopotamien und Arabien. Verh. Zool.-Bot. Ges. Wien 45: 13-22 - get paper here
External links	IUCN Red List National Center for Biotechnology Information http://www.biotropics.com/html/echsen.html Google images

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