Animalia > Chordata > Squamata > Agamidae > Phrynocephalus > Phrynocephalus versicolorPhrynocephalus versicolor (Tuva Toadhead Agama)Synonyms: Phrynocephalus blanfordi; Phrynocephalus carinatus; Phrynocephalus ciliaris; Phrynocephalus guentheri; Phrynocephalus helioscopus var. levis; Phrynocephalus immaculatus; Phrynocephalus pewzonii; Phrynocephalus pewzowi; Phrynocephalus potanini; Phrynocephalus rostralis; Phrynocephalus stejnegeri; Phrynocephalus versicolor var. bogdanowi; Phrynocephalus versicolor var. doriai; Phrynocephalus versicolor var. siebenrocki Phrynocephalus versicolor, the variegated toadhead agama, is a species of agamid lizard found in desert areas of China and Mongolia. It was first described by the Russian herpetologist Alexander Strauch, director of the Zoological Museum at the Imperial Academy of Sciences at St. Petersburg. |
| Adult Weight [1] | 3 grams | | Female Weight [1] | 3 grams |  | | Gestation [1] | 35 days | | Litter Size [1] | 3 | | Litters / Year [1] | 2 | | Reproductive Mode [2] | Oviparous | | Snout to Vent Length [1] | 1.968 inches (5 cm) | | | Habitat Substrate [2] | Terrestrial |
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Countries |
Ecozone |
Biome |
Species |
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Climate |
Land
Use |
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Alashan Plateau semi-desert |
China, Mongolia |
Palearctic |
Deserts and Xeric Shrublands |
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Eastern Gobi desert steppe |
China, Mongolia |
Palearctic |
Deserts and Xeric Shrublands |
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Emin Valley steppe |
China, Kazakstan |
Palearctic |
Temperate Grasslands, Savannas, and Shrublands |
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Great Lakes Basin desert steppe |
Mongolia, Russia |
Palearctic |
Deserts and Xeric Shrublands |
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Helanshan montane conifer forests |
China |
Palearctic |
Temperate Coniferous Forests |
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Junggar Basin semi-desert |
China, Kazakstan, Mongolia |
Palearctic |
Deserts and Xeric Shrublands |
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Mongolian-Manchurian grassland |
China, Mongolia |
Palearctic |
Temperate Grasslands, Savannas, and Shrublands |
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Ordos Plateau steppe |
China |
Palearctic |
Montane Grasslands and Shrublands |
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Qilian Mountains subalpine meadows |
China |
Palearctic |
Montane Grasslands and Shrublands |
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Southeast Tibet shrub and meadows |
China |
Palearctic |
Montane Grasslands and Shrublands |
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Taklimakan desert |
China |
Palearctic |
Deserts and Xeric Shrublands |
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Tian Shan foothill arid steppe |
China, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan |
Palearctic |
Temperate Grasslands, Savannas, and Shrublands |
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Location |
Endemic |
Species |
Website |
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Mountains of Central Asia |
Afghanistan, China, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan |
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Attributes / relations provided by
♦ 1Nathan 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
♦ 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 Ecoregions provided by World Wide Fund For Nature (WWF). WildFinder: Online database of species distributions, ver. 01.06 Wildfinder Database |
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
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