The Badakhshana rock agama (''Paralaudakia badakhshana'') is an

agamid Agamidae is a family of over 300 species of iguanian lizards indigenous to Africa, Asia, Australia, and a few in Southern Europe. Many species are commonly called dragons or dragon lizards. Overview Phylogenetically, they may be sister to the ...

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Tajikistan Tajikistan (, ; tg, Тоҷикистон, Tojikiston; russian: Таджикистан, Tadzhikistan), officially the Republic of Tajikistan ( tg, Ҷумҳурии Тоҷикистон, Jumhurii Tojikiston), is a landlocked country in Centr ...

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. Type locality: Mazar-i-Sharif, northern Afghanistan, 36° 34' N, 67° 05' E, 457 m elevation.

References

* Ananjeva N B; Peters G; Rzepakovsky V T 1981 New species of the mountain agamas from Tadjikistan, Agama chernovi sp. nov. TRUDY ZOOLOGICHESKOGO INSTITUTA AKADEMII NAUK SSSR 101 1981: 23-27 * Ananjeva, N.B. & Tuniev 1994 Some aspects of historical biogeography of Asian rock agamids Russ. J. Herpetol. 1 (1): 43 * Baig, K.J. & Böhme, W. 1995 Partition of the Stellio-group of Agama. 8th Ord. Gen. Meet. Soc. Europ. Herpet.: 36 Paralaudakia Reptiles of Pakistan Reptiles of Afghanistan Reptiles of Central Asia Reptiles described in 1969 Taxa named by Steven C. Anderson Taxa named by Alan E. Leviton {{agamidae-stub