What Animal Lives Where

Where has the Sunwatcher Toadhead Agama been recorded?

Phrynocephalus helioscopus occurrence evidence comes from 69 records in 5 countries and territories, from 1962 to 2024. Most records come from Turkmenistan.

Sunwatcher Toadhead Agama
Sunwatcher Toadhead Agama — Photo (display-sized rendition): HerpetologyRu · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons
SquamataAgamidaePhrynocephalus

Observation evidence passport

Evidence found

69 records across 5 countries and territories, 1962–2024.

Phrynocephalus helioscopus · GBIF taxon key 2466398

Source coverage

CC0 GBIF Animalia occurrence facets, including country, month and year summaries.

Refreshed 2026-09-24. Inspect the taxon on GBIF.

What this means

The species has been recorded in the listed places in the stated source universe. Peak month: May.

1 month reach at least 10% of the peak facet count.

What this does not mean

repeated describes the record pattern, not a formal range, residency, abundance or conservation assessment.

A single record remains evidence of a recording, not proof that a population lives there.

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When it is recorded

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Peak month: May. Records cluster in the months an animal is present and being looked for, so a summer peak can reflect observer effort as much as the animal.

Records over time

19622024

Recording effort has risen steeply almost everywhere since the 1990s, so a rising line usually shows more observers rather than more animals.

Where Sunwatcher Toadhead Agama has been recorded

The countries below show where occurrence evidence exists for Sunwatcher Toadhead Agama. They do not define a complete habitat range: survey effort differs by place, and historical or one-off records can appear alongside repeated presence.

PlaceRecordsShare
Turkmenistan 32
Kazakhstan 20
Türkiye 10
Mongolia 4
Iran 3

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Repeated records concentrated in part of the year. This is inferred from how many years and months the animal appears in, not from a range map — treat it as evidence, not a formal assessment.