Reptilia · Squamata
Laudakia tuberculataGray, 1827
Kashmir Rock Agama
Photograph by Ulf Liebal, CC BY, via iNaturalist
A rock-dwelling, day-active, omnivorous lizard from the Saharo-Sindian region, reaching 150 mm snout to vent.
Also called Tuberculated Agama.
Once published as Agama tuberculata — those names reach this page.
Reptilia › Squamata › Agamidae › Laudakia
- Grows to
- 150mm
- greatest recorded
- Eats
- Omnivorous
- Active
- Diurnal
- Lives up to
- 7.4years
Longer than 85% of all agamids anyone has measured.
The bar is the rank itself: its length is the share of the family this animal exceeds. The chart below is the family’s real spread, on a logarithmic scale because body length here runs from 32 to 418 mm. The solid rule is this animal. Every bar is a count of real species, and nothing on this figure is estimated.
What is known
41 sourced facts, each taken from a named scientific dataset. How to read these.
Cited from a dataset unless a row is marked otherwise.
Standing in the world
- Still living
- Extant
- Conservation status
- Least Concern
- Status assessed · the year the Red List last looked
- 2019
- Population trend
- Stable
The animal itself
- Limbs
- Four legs
- Venomous
- No
- Fangs
- None
- Longest recorded life
- 7.4years
- Body temperature when active · measured in the wild
- 33.85°C93 °F
- Body temp in the wild · mean, when active
- 33.1–34.6°C92–94 °F
TAU museum records: 7 years and 5 months
mean body temperature of active individuals in nature
body temperature of active animals in nature
Size
- Length snout to vent · greatest recorded
- 150mm6 in
- Length snout to vent · adult female mean
- 112.9mm4.5 in
- Largest female · snout to vent
- 112.9mm4.5 in
- Hatchling length · snout to vent
- 30.5mm1.25 in
- Largest juvenile · snout to vent
- 30.5mm1.25 in
- Body mass · greatestcomputed
- 117.7g4.2 oz
- Body mass at hatchingmeasured
- 1.2g0.04 oz
max 150 mm SVL (Feldman et al. 2016)
snout-vent length; the source column mixes this with straight carapace length
computed from length by a family-level allometric equation, not weighed
How it lives
- Diet
- Omnivorous
- How it hunts
- Mixed
- Active
- Diurnal
- Where it lives
- Saxicolous
- Habitat
- Forest, Rocky, Shrubland, Wetlands
- Biome
- Montane Grasslands & Savannas
- Region
- Saharo-Sindian
- Mainland or island
- Mainland
- Elevation · above sea level
- 150–5000m
- Range size
- 459,224km²
- Density
- 0.01–307per hectare
- Home range · largest recorded
- 180m2
adults Omnivorous, mainly Herbivorous (Khan 2006, Panov and Zykova 2016, Haider et al. 2019 see also Nawani et al. 2020), juveniles eat insects, mainly arthropods but also vegetable food (Murthy 1995, Sharma 2002), males more herbivorous than females and juveniles eat even more animal food, also took skinks (Waltner 1991), 18.3-52.5% plants, as few as 12.2% plants in juveniles, 7.6% in hutchlings (Waltner 1991, fig. 18-21, p28-31), omnivorous (Kastle et al. 2013, p415), athropods and flower petals (Das and Das 2017), flowers (Vishwakarma et al. 2019), mostly herbivore, also arthropods (Akram et al. 2020)
combined (Schleich and Kastle 2002: sit and wait for prey, active for plants - Kastle et al. 2013)
e.g., Das and Das 2017, Haider et al. 2019
790-3400 (Nanhoe and Ouboter 1987), 310-3400 in Nepal, to 5000 in Kashmir, 600-4600 (Panov and Zykova 2016), 310-3400 (Gautam et al. 2020), 1500-2500 (Haider et al. 2019), 310 to at least 5000 (Nawani et al. 2020), 150-3,956 (Sengupta et al. 2023)
Breeding
- Reproduction
- Oviparous
- Average clutch
- 9.5eggs
- Eggs or young per clutch
- 4–15eggs
- Mean clutch
- 7–9.9eggs
- Clutches a year
- 2per year
5-13, means 8.9-9.9 (Panov and Zykova 2016), 6-13 (Das and Das 2017), 6-9 (Haider et al. 2019), mean 7 (Liang et al. 2021)
Naming and history
- Suborder
- Sauria
- Infraorder
- Acrodontia
- Subspecies
- No
- Described by
- Gray
- Moved to another genus · since it was first described
- Yes
- Described in
- 1827
- Type locality
- India
Keeping one
23.5 in × 23.5 in × 15 in(60 × 60 × 38 cm)
Minimum length × width × height, for one animal. Bigger is always better.
The standard sizes ground-dwelling species at 4 × 4 × 2.5 times snout-vent length.
Lives on rock, so stable hard surfaces and basking ledges suit it.
Mindestanforderungen an die Haltung von Reptilien (Sachverständigengutachten), German Federal Ministry for Nutrition, Agriculture and Forestry, Animal Welfare Division, 10 January 1997. The standard states these floor areas are recommendations rather than binding limits.
From this animal’s own snout-vent length of 6 in (150 mm), at 4 × 4 × 2.5 times it, following the German federal welfare standard — how this is worked out.
Active animals measured in the wild averaged 93 °F (33.9 °C).
Mean body temperature of active individuals measured in nature. A measurement of the animal, not a setting for a thermostat.
Feeding
A prey item should be no wider than the space between the animal's eyes.
Widely used across reptile husbandry references. The stated reason is that the gap approximates the width of the throat, so wider prey is associated with impaction. This is established practice, not a measurement.
14kJ per day
Worked out for an animal of 118 g, the heaviest recorded for Kashmir Rock Agama — so it is the top of the range, not a figure for a particular animal. Weigh yours and the number will be lower.
An upper estimate, not a feeding target, and not veterinary advice. The equation covers only what an animal burns staying alive, so a growing, gravid or recovering animal needs more — and it was measured on wild animals, which move far more than one in an enclosure. Body condition and a vet who knows the species are what a feeding decision should rest on. Where this comes from.
What nobody knows
These are not gaps in our research. No scientific dataset records them for this species — and saying so is information you cannot get from a reference that simply leaves a field out.
- — Length snout to vent · adult male mean
- — Length snout to vent · adult mean
- — Length nose to tail · greatest recorded
- — Female length · mean, nose to tail
- — Length nose to tail · adult male mean
- — Length nose to tail · adult mean
- — Largest male · snout to vent
- — Largest female · shell length
- — Largest male · shell length
- — Hatchling length · nose to tail
- — Largest juvenile · shell length
- — Egg length
- — Egg width
- — Body mass · a typical adult
- — Body mass · adult female, mean
- — Preferred body temperature · chosen in a laboratory gradient
- — Eats arthropods
- — Eats vertebrates
- — Eats plant matter
- — How the young develop
- — Gestation or incubation
- — Clutches in a year
- — First breeds from · youngest recorded
- — First breeds by · oldest recorded
- — Hatchling length · smallest recorded
- — Hatchling length · largest recorded
- — Age at first breeding · female
- — Mature from · youngest recorded
- — Mature by · oldest recorded
- — Size at maturity · smallest recorded
- — Size at maturity · largest recorded
- — Colour on the back
- — Pattern on the back
- — Pupil
- — Sex decided by
- — Red List criteria
- — Active season · shortest recorded
- — Active season · longest recorded
- — Active in
Others in Agamidae
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Cite this page
The Reptile & Amphibian Encyclopedia (2026). Laudakia tuberculata. Retrieved 2026-09-08, from https://www.allanglescreatures.com/species/laudakia-tuberculata
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