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'Kashmir Rock Agama' Photograph by Ryan Van Meter

Kashmir Rock Agama

This colorful male Agama lizard was one of many scurrying around the edges of a rocky gorge carved by the violently-rushing waters of the Kali Gandaki River below.

25 May 2013

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Lete, Nepal

Kashmir Rock Agama

Laudakia tuberculata
iNaturalist Observation
MARKED RESEARCH GRADE
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