How To Use Agamid In A Sentence
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In addition to iguanas, the Iguania include agamids, chameleons and a few lesser known groups.
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Species richness in agamid lizards: chance, body size, sexual selection or ecology?
Archive 2006-12-01
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In addition to iguanas, the Iguania include agamids, chameleons and a few lesser known groups.
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Draco volans, the ‘flying dragon’ lizard: A small arboreal agamid lizard that has elongate ribs that support the gliding membrane.
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Molecular claims of Gondwanan age for Australian agamid lizards are untenable.
Harduns and toad-heads; a tale of arenicoly and over-looked convergence
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A new polytypic species of the genus Uromastyx Merrem 1820 (Reptilia: Squamata: Agamidae: Leiolepidinae) from southwestern Arabia - Thomas M. Wilms and Andreas Schmitz
Archive 2007-01-01
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What Macey's work suggests is that each of the various taxa of agamid lizards crossed the Tethys on different continental plates, like so many groups of immigrants arriving on crowded steamers.
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Studies generally agree that there are three major agamid clades: the Australo-papuan clade (Amphibolurinae), the southern Asian clade (Draconinae), and the African-west Asian clade (Agaminae).
Harduns and toad-heads; a tale of arenicoly and over-looked convergence
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He makes few assumptions about higher-level lizard taxonomy and includes geckos, skinks and agamids among his ingroup taxa.
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The agamid lizard Cryptagama aurita has a small distribution, concentrated in this region.
Victoria Plains tropical savanna
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In agamids, the homologous muscle also functions to move the tongue forward, assisting the major tongue protractors.
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But the limited information suggests that the critically endangered turtle Pelochelys cantorii, the geckos Gehyra lacerata and Gekko petricolus, the agamid lizard Ptyctolaemus phuwuanensis, the two skinks Isopachys borealis and Lygosoma koratense, the earth snake Typhlops khoratensis, and the colubrid snake Oligodon hamptoni are ecoregional endemics.
Central Indochina dry forests
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Here in Europe – or, as I like to call it, the European Field Guide Region (EFGR) – there is usually stated to be just one agamid, the Hardun, Starred agama or Sling-tailed agama Laudakia stellio [image at left: from sundancecamp. com].
Harduns and toad-heads; a tale of arenicoly and over-looked convergence
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Reptiles and amphibians recorded from the islands include 2 geckoes (Hemidactylus spp.), 2 agamid lizards including the common garden lizard or blood sucker (Calotes versicolar), the snake skink (Riopa albopunktata), common wolf snake (Lycodon aulicus), another snake, Typhlos braminus, a short-headed frog, Rana breviceps, and a larger toad, Bufo melanostictus.
Maldives-Lakshadweep-Chagos Archipelago tropical moist forests
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He makes few assumptions about higher-level lizard taxonomy and includes geckos, skinks and agamids among his in-group taxa.
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Here in Europe – or, as I like to call it, the European Field Guide Region (EFGR) – there is usually stated to be just one agamid, the Hardun, Starred agama or Sling-tailed agama Laudakia stellio [image at left: from sundancecamp. com].
Harduns and toad-heads; a tale of arenicoly and over-looked convergence
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Although reptiles in the region are not well-studied, at least one endemic lizard, the toad-headed agamid (Phrynocephalus vlangalii), occurs here.
Qaidam Basin semi-desert
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In addition to the large number of Rhacophorid frogs, new species have been added to the endemic agamid lizard genera, Lyriocephalus, Ceratophora, and Cophotis, over the past few years.
Sri Lanka montane rain forests