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I started 1 month ago to keep Phrynocephalus mustaceus.
Are here anyone who have keeping experience of that species?

Toomas

well, it's not a bearded dragon so wouldn't be applicable in this forum. I would ask in the more appropriate forum here on kingsnake for information...if there is no real catagory you can find listed in teh various forums available, then put it in the general lizard forum. As I have no clue what it is you are asking, I couldn't even say it's a lizard or an insect.

Phrynocephalus mustaceus is lizard - AGAMIDAE, Toad-headed Agama.

That is very nice desert lizard. But very capricious species and therefore very complicated to keep in captivity.

Pictures:
http://www.kz/eng/animals/desert/desert32.html
http://www.photoweb.ru/prophoto/Gallery/rept/krugl.htm
http://www.swissherp.org/Reptiles/Agamidae/Phrynocephalus/Phrynocephalus_mystaceus_h.jpg
http://www.swissherp.org/Reptiles/Agamidae/Phrynocephalus/Phrynocephalus_mystaceus.jpg

Unfortunately Kingsnake LIZARDS FORUMS have not Agamids Forums after Bearded Dragons Forum, Frilled Lizards Forum and some other. But agamids are not only Bearded Dragons, Frilled Lizards, Chuckwallas, Uromastyxes.

That can be nice if in Kingsnake is General Agamas or General Agamids Forum too.

In the Family of Agamidae (Agamas) are 51 subfamilies. In Kingsnake are represented oForums about only 4-5 subfamilies of Agamas.

WHERE CAN WRITE PEOPLE ABOUT OTHER AGAMIDS?

INFORMATION ABOUT PHRYNOCEPHALUS MUSTACEUS:
Species:
Phrynocephalus mystaceus

Synonyms:
Lacerta mystacea PALLAS 1776: 702
Phrynocephalus mystacia - KAUP 1827
Phrynocephalus mystaceus - BOULENGER 1885: 379
Phrynocephalus mystaceus mystaceus natio dagestanica KRASSOWSKY 1932
Phrynocephalus mystaceus galli KRASSOWSKY 1932
Megalochilus mystaceus - ANANJEVA 1986
Phrynocephalus mystaceus - WERMUTH 1967: 84
Phrynocephalus mystaceus - ENGELMANN et al 1993

Phrynocephalus mystaceus mystaceus (PALLAS 1776)
Lacerta aurita GMELIN 1789: 1073 (nom. subst. pro Lacerta mystacea)
Lacerta lobata SHAW 1802: 244 (nom. subst. pro Lacerta aurita)
Agama aurita - DAUDIN 1802: 429
Phrynocephalus auritus - DUMÉRIL & BIBRON 1837: 524
Phrynocephalus mystaceus mystaceus - KRASSOWSKY 1932: 227
Phrynocephalus mystaceus mystaceus - WERMUTH 1967: 84
Phrynocephalus mystaceus mystaceus - MANTHEY & SCHUSTER 1999: 90

Subspecies:
Phrynocephalus mystaceus aurantiacaudatus SEMENOV & SHENBROT 1990
Phrynocephalus mystaceus mystaceus (PALLAS 1776)
Phrynocephalus mystaceus galli KRASSOWSKY 1932

Family:
Agamidae, Sauria (lizards)

Distribution:
Soviet Union, NW cost of Caspian Sea to E Kazakhstan, Russia (Dagestan, Astrakhan Oblast), Kazakhstan, Turkmenistan, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan, Kyrgyzstan, NE Iran, Afghanistan, NW China (W Xinjiang)

aurantiacaudatus: Kazakhstan
galli: Terra typica: Repeteka, Turkestan.

photo: http://www.kz/eng/animals/desert.html

Terra typica: East Caucasus. Restricted to "Naryn-Steppe, an der Nordküste des kaspischen Maeeres" by MERTENS & MÜLLER 1928

Comment:
Synonymy partly after KHALIKOV & ANANJEVA (pers. comm.) and WERMUTH 1967. Oviparous. Largest species within genus (up to 25 cm total length).

photo: http://itgmv1.fzk.de/www/itg/uetz/herp/photos/Phrynocephalus_mystaceus.jpg
photo: http://www.geocities.com/grindorious/agamidae.html

References:
Tok (1999) Tr. J. Zool. 23 (1): 157-175
Ananjeva etc. (1992) Asiatic Herpetological Research 4: 76-98
Boulenger (1885) Catalogue of the Lizards Vol. I.
Duméril & Bibron (1837) Erpétologie Générale, Vol. 4.
Engelmann etc. (1993) Lurche Kriechtiere Europas.
Gmelin (1789) In: Linnaeus: Systema Naturae, 13th ed.
Krassowsky (1932) Zool. Anz. 97: 227
Lambert (2002) Herpetological Bulletin (79): 7-13
Macey etc. (2000) Syst. Biol. 49 (2): 233-256
--> Manthey & Schuster (1999) Agamen, 2. Aufl., Natur und Tier Verlag (Münster).
Mertens etc. (1928) Abhandlungen der Senckenbergischen Naturforschenden Gesellschaft. Frankfurt am Main. 41: 1-62.
Pallas (1776) Reise vers. Prov. Russ. Reichs, 3: 703
Pang etc. (2003) Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 27: 398-409
Roitberg etc. (2000) Faunist. Abh. Staatl. Mus. Tierk. Dresden 22 (8)
Shaw (1802) General Zoology, Vol.3, part 1 2.
Zhao & Adler (1993) Herpetology of China.

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Cool looking lizard. I can see how it got the name toad headed lizard. Thanks for the info.
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Stacey