Laudakia cypriaca

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Cyprus rock agama
Starred agama (Stellagama stellio cypriaca).jpg
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Reptilia
Order: Squamata
Suborder: Iguania
Family: Agamidae
Genus: Laudakia
Species:
L. cypriaca
Binomial name
Laudakia cypriaca
(Daan, 1967)
Synonyms [1]
  • Agama stellio cypriaca Daan, 1967
  • Laudakia stellio cypriaca (Daan, 1967)
  • Stellagama stellio cypriaca (Daan, 1967)

Laudakia cypriaca, also known as Cyprus rock agama, is a species of agamid lizard. It is endemic to Cyprus. [1] [2] It was originally described as a subspecies of Agama stellio (now Laudakia stellio ). However, a 2022 revision of Laudakia stellio raised the former Laudakia stellio cypriaca to the full species rank, [1] [2] along with Laudakia vulgaris . [2]

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References

  1. 1 2 3 Laudakia cypriaca at the Reptarium.cz Reptile Database. Accessed 18 April 2022.
  2. 1 2 3 Karameta, Emmanouela; Lymberakis, Petros; Grillitsch, Heinz; Ilgaz, Çetin; Avci, Aziz; Kumlutaş, Yusuf; Candan, Kamil; Wagner, Philipp; Sfenthourakis, Spyros; Pafilis, Panayiotis & Poulakakis, Nikos (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: zlab107. doi:10.1093/zoolinnean/zlab107.