Saara_asmussi
Saara asmussi
Species of lizard
Saara asmussi, also known commonly as the Iranian mastigure and the Persian spiny-tailed lizard, is a species of lizard belonging to the family Agamidae.[2][3] The species is endemic to Asia.
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| Saara asmussi | |
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Scientific classification  | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Reptilia |
| Order: | Squamata |
| Suborder: | Iguania |
| Family: | Agamidae |
| Genus: | Saara |
| Species: | S. asmussi |
| Binomial name | |
| Saara asmussi (Strauch, 1863) | |
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The specific name, asmussi, is in honor of Baltic German paleozoologist Hermann Martin Asmuss.[3]
S. asmussi occurs in Afghanistan, southern Iran, and Pakistan.[3]
S. asmussi may attain a snout-to-vent length (SVL) of 26 cm (10 in), and a tail length of 21 cm (8.3 in).[4]
S. asmussi eats leaves, stems, and seeds of herbaceous plants.[4]
S. asmussi excavates a burrow in which it shelters. If disturbed it lashes its heavy spiky tail in defense.[4]
- "Appendices | CITES". cites.org. Retrieved 2022-01-14.
- "Taxonomy browser (Saara asmussi)". www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov. Retrieved 31 January 2021.
- Saara asmussi at the Reptarium.cz Reptile Database. Accessed 5 February 2021.
- Boulenger GA (1885). Catalogue of the Lizards in the British Museum (Natural History). Second Edition. Volume I. ... Agamidæ. London: Trustees of the British Museum (Natural History). (Taylor and Francis, printers). xii + 436 pp. + Plates I–XXXII. (Uromastix asmussii, new combination, p. 409).
- Sindaco R, Jeremčenko VK (2008). The Reptiles of the Western Palearctic. 1. Annotated Checklist and Distributional Atlas of the Turtles, Crocodiles, Amphisbaenians and Lizards of Europe, North Africa, Middle East and Central Asia. (Monographs of the Societas Herpetologica Italica). Latina, Italy: Edizioni Belvedere. 580 pp. ISBN 978-88-89504-14-7.
- Strauch A (1863). "Characteristik zweier neuen Eidechsen aus Persien [= Characteristics of Two New Lizards from Persia]". Bulletin de l'Académie Impériale des Sciences de Saint-Pétersbourg 6: 477–480. (Centrotrachelus asmussi, new species, pp. 479–480). (in German).
