Laudakia Gray, 1845

Šmíd, Jiří, Moravec, Jiří, Kodym, Petr, Kratochvíl, Lukáš, Yousefkhani, Seyyed Saeed Hosseinian, Rastegar-Pouyani, Eskandar & Frynta, Daniel, 2014, Annotated checklist and distribution of the lizards of Iran, Zootaxa 3855 (1), pp. 1-97 : 8

Laudakia Gray, 1845

The genus Laudakia was recently divided into three genera ( Stellagama , Paralaudakia , and Laudakia ) with three Iranian species ( L. caucasia , L. erythrogaster and L. microlepis ) being reassigned to the genus Paralaudakia while L. melanura and L. nupta retained their generic assignment ( Baig et al. 2012). Despite this taxonomic revision was based on detailed examination of cranial morphology and dentition characters it was supported only by secondary and partial phylogenetic analysis of genetic data. The supposed paraphyly of the genus ( Melville et al. 2009; Edwards & Melville 2011) originated probably by an error ( Baig et al. 2012). Monophyletic status of the genus was confirmed by Pyron et al. (2013). Here we adhere to the suggestion of Pyron et al. to retain the generic name Laudakia for all its previously defined members in order to preserve nomenclatural stability in this group.