World Species : Phrynocephalus interscapularis (Spot-backed toad-headed lizard; Lichtenstein's Toadhead Agama)

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Phrynocephalus interscapularis (Spot-backed toad-headed lizard; Lichtenstein's Toadhead Agama)

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Infraspecies

Phrynocephalus interscapularis interscapularis
Phrynocephalus interscapularis sogdianus (Tadjikistan Toadhead Agama)

Attributes

Adult Weight ^[1]	1 grams

Habitat Substrate ^[2]	Terrestrial

Reproductive Mode ^[2]	Oviparous
Snout to Vent Length ^[3]	1.575 inches (4 cm)

Ecoregions

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Name	Countries	Ecozone	Biome
Alai-Western Tian Shan steppe	Kazahkstan, Uzbekistan, Tadjikistan	Palearctic	Temperate Grasslands, Savannas, and Shrublands
Altai steppe and semi-desert	Kazahkstan	Palearctic	Temperate Grasslands, Savannas, and Shrublands
Badghyz and Karabil semi-desert	Afghanistan, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, Iran, Tajikistan	Palearctic	Deserts and Xeric Shrublands
Caspian lowland desert	Russia, Kazakhstan, Turkmenistan, Iran	Palearctic	Deserts and Xeric Shrublands
Central Asian northern desert	Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan	Palearctic	Deserts and Xeric Shrublands
Central Asian riparian woodlands	Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan	Palearctic	Deserts and Xeric Shrublands
Central Asian southern desert	Turkmenistan stretching, Uzbekistan, Kazakhstan	Palearctic	Deserts and Xeric Shrublands
Kazakh semi-desert	Kazakhstan	Palearctic	Deserts and Xeric Shrublands
Kopet Dag semi-desert	Iran, Turkmenistan	Palearctic	Deserts and Xeric Shrublands

Protected Areas

Name	IUCN Category	Area acres	Location
Kaplankyr Zapovednik State Nature Reserve	Ia	1293994	Turkmenistan
Khazar Zapovednik State Nature Reserve	Ia	658105	Turkmenistan
Kugitang Zapovednik State Nature Reserve	Ia	77308	Turkmenistan

Biodiversity Hotspots

Name	Location	Endemic	Species	Website
Mountains of Central Asia	Afghanistan, China, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan	No

Predators

Podoces panderi (Pander's Ground Jay)

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Consumers

Parasitized by
Alaria alata	^[5]
Sphaerirostris scanensis	^[5]

External References

Citations

Attributes / relations provided by
♦ ¹Length–weight allometries in lizards, S. Meiri, Journal of Zoology 281 (2010) 218–226
♦ ²Meiri, Shai (2019), Data from: Traits of lizards of the world: variation around a successful evolutionary design, Dryad, Dataset, https://doi.org/10.5061/dryad.f6t39kj
♦ ³Nathan P. Myhrvold, Elita Baldridge, Benjamin Chan, Dhileep Sivam, Daniel L. Freeman, and S. K. Morgan Ernest. 2015. An amniote life-history database to perform comparative analyses with birds, mammals, and reptiles. Ecology 96:3109
♦ ⁴del Hoyo, J., Elliott, A., Sargatal, J., Christie, D.A. & de Juana, E. (eds.). Handbook of the Birds of the World Alive. Lynx Edicions, Barcelona.
♦ ⁵Gibson, D. I., Bray, R. A., & Harris, E. A. (Compilers) (2005). Host-Parasite Database of the Natural History Museum, London

Ecoregions provided by World Wide Fund For Nature (WWF). WildFinder: Online database of species distributions, ver. 01.06 Wildfinder Database

Biodiversity Hotspots provided by Critical Ecosystem Partnership Fund

Species taxanomy provided by GBIF Secretariat (2022). GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/39omei accessed via GBIF.org on 2023-06-13; License: CC BY 4.0