Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun Any of various tropical insect-eating lizards of the family Agamidae chiefly of Africa, Asia, and Australia, having a long tail and including the flying lizards.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A lizard of the family Agamidæ.
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- noun zoology Any of the family
Agamidae oflizards , including manydragons .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a lizard of the family Agamidae
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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Species richness in agamid lizards: chance, body size, sexual selection or ecology?
Archive 2006-12-01 Darren Naish 2006
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Species richness in agamid lizards: chance, body size, sexual selection or ecology?
Harduns and toad-heads; a tale of arenicoly and over-looked convergence Darren Naish 2006
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Molecular claims of Gondwanan age for Australian agamid lizards are untenable.
Harduns and toad-heads; a tale of arenicoly and over-looked convergence Darren Naish 2006
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The agamid lizard Cryptagama aurita has a small distribution, concentrated in this region.
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Here in Europe – or, as I like to call it, the European Field Guide Region (EFGR) – there is usually stated to be just one agamid, the Hardun, Starred agama or Sling-tailed agama Laudakia stellio [image at left: from sundancecamp. com].
Harduns and toad-heads; a tale of arenicoly and over-looked convergence Darren Naish 2006
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Studies generally agree that there are three major agamid clades: the Australo-papuan clade (Amphibolurinae), the southern Asian clade (Draconinae), and the African-west Asian clade (Agaminae).
Harduns and toad-heads; a tale of arenicoly and over-looked convergence Darren Naish 2006
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Although reptiles in the region are not well-studied, at least one endemic lizard, the toad-headed agamid (Phrynocephalus vlangalii), occurs here.
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In addition to the large number of Rhacophorid frogs, new species have been added to the endemic agamid lizard genera, Lyriocephalus, Ceratophora, and Cophotis, over the past few years.
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Reptiles and amphibians recorded from the islands include 2 geckoes (Hemidactylus spp.), 2 agamid lizards including the common garden lizard or blood sucker (Calotes versicolar), the snake skink (Riopa albopunktata), common wolf snake (Lycodon aulicus), another snake, Typhlos braminus, a short-headed frog, Rana breviceps, and a larger toad, Bufo melanostictus.
Maldives-Lakshadweep-Chagos Archipelago tropical moist forests 2008
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But the limited information suggests that the critically endangered turtle Pelochelys cantorii, the geckos Gehyra lacerata and Gekko petricolus, the agamid lizard Ptyctolaemus phuwuanensis, the two skinks Isopachys borealis and Lygosoma koratense, the earth snake Typhlops khoratensis, and the colubrid snake Oligodon hamptoni are ecoregional endemics.
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