Saara hardwickii

Vernacular names [edit wikidata 'Saara hardwickii']

• English: Spiny-tailed Lizard
• العربية: ضب هندي
• Cebuano: Uromastyx hardwickii
• Deutsch: Indischer Dornschwanz
• euskara: Uromastyx hardwickii
• 日本語: インドトゲオアガマ
• Nederlands: Indische doornstaartagame
• Diné bizaad: Naakaii Dootłʼizhii Bikéyahdę́ę́ʼ naʼashǫ́ʼii bitseewozhí
• русский: Индийский шипохвост
• svenska: Uromastyx hardwickii
• українська: Шипохвіст індійський
• Winaray: Uromastyx hardwickii

Domain: Eukaryota • Regnum: Animalia • Phylum: Chordata • Subphylum: Vertebrata • Infraphylum: Gnathostomata • Superclassis: Tetrapoda • Cladus: Amniota • Cladus: Reptilia • Subclassis: Diapsida • Superordo: Lepidosauria • Ordo: Squamata • Subordo: Sauria • Infraordo: Iguania • Familia: Agamidae • Genus: Uromastyx • Species: Uromastyx hardwickii Gray, 1827

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  Uromastyx hardwickii
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  A front view.
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  A view from the rear. Note the rounded head and flat snout.
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  The dorso-ventrally flat body is clearly made out.
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  Close up of front half.
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  Close up of rear half - note the blue-grey spiny tail and toes on the foot.
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  Falco jugger feeding on a spiny-tailed lizard. The lizard was identified from remains (tail).
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  Tail of a Spiny-tailed lizard which fell as prey to a Laggar Falcon.
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  A juvenile Spiny-tailed lizard.
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  A dead uromastyx found on the dunes.
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  A tail of Uromastyx found below the habitual perch of Tawny Eagle, Aquila rapax.
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  Fresh pellet of Tawny Eagle Aquila rapax shows spines of ingested Uromastyx. The eagle was video-photographed ejecting this pellet.

• The images in the gallery below are a series of photos taken at two Uromastyx colonies in Jaisalmer district, Rajasthan, near Thaiyat and Chacha villages. This region falls in the Thar desert.
• Photos taken by Ashwin and Aashay Baindur. (ashwin_baindur(at)yahoo(dot)com).

Illustrations

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  Uromastix hardwickii