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Laudakia tuberculata
Habitat
Rocky mountain areas at 790–3,660m
Range
Northern Pakistan, northern India (western Himalaya, Kashmir, Punjab), Nepal and western China (Tibetan Plateau)
The Himalayan agama, also called the Kashmir rock agama or tuberculated agama, is an agamid lizard of rocky mountain country. The head is much flattened, with small closely set spiny scales on the sides of the head near the ear and neck. Males have a large patch of thickened preanal scales and a patch of similar scales on the middle of the belly (Boulenger, as reported on Wikipedia).
It is olive-brown above, spotted or speckled with blackish and sometimes small yellowish spots, and a breeding male's throat is blue with light spots. It inhabits rocky mountain areas at 790 to 3,660m, and is found in northern Pakistan, northern India, Nepal and western China. The sources opened give nothing on diet or breeding.