Sunwatcher Toadhead Agama

Continent: Near-East Asia Europe
Distribution: Soviet Union, Armenia eastward to E Kazakhstan, S Russia (Astrakhan Oblast and Volgograd Oblast), Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkey, Iraq, NW China (W Xinjiang), NW Mongolia, NE Iran horvathi: Armenia;
Type locality: œAralich, am Fusse des Ararat, Armenien (fide WERMUTH 1967) saidalievi: Uzbekistan, Tajikistan and Kyrgyzstan (Ferghana Valley); Terra typica: "vicinity of the Kanibadam village (Tajik part of the Fergana Valley)" [= Konibodom village, approximately 40º17' N, 70º25' E, Tajikistan]. varius: from Eastern Kazakhstan through Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, China to western Mongolia. Terra typica: "Hab. in Sibiria australi, versus montes Altaicos"
Type locality: "in deserti australioris collibus ardentissimis"; restricted to the "Inderskija Gory, Gebiet des unteren Uralflusses" [North Kazakhstan] by Mertens & Müller (1928: 26).

Phrynocephalus helioscopus, the sunwatcher toadhead agama, Fergana toad-headed agama, or sunwatcher, is a species of agamid lizard found in Kazakhstan, S Russia, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkey, Iraq, China, Mongolia, and Iran.