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Saara hardwickii
''Saara hardwickii'', commonly known as Hardwicke's spiny-tailed lizard or the Indian spiny-tailed lizard is a species of agamid lizard found patchily distributed in the Thar desert, Kutch, and surrounding arid zones in India and Pakistan. These lizards are mainly herbivorous are live in numbers in some areas. These lizards are found in loose clusters and attract raptors and predators. They are also hunted by local peoples in the belief that the fat extracted from it is an aphrodisiac.
==Taxonomy==
Traditionally this species was placed in the genus ''Uromastyx'', but in 2009 it was moved to the genus ''Saara'' together with the closely related ''S. asmussi'' and ''S. loricata''.〔Wilms, T.M.; Böhme, W.; Wagner, P.; Lutzmann, N.; Schmitz, A. 2009. On the phylogeny and taxonomy of the genus ''Uromastyx'' Merrem, 1820 (Reptilia: Squamata: Agamidae: Uromastycinae) - resurrection of the genus ''Saara'' Gray, 1845. ''Bonner zoologische Beiträge'' 56 (1/2): 55–99.〕
The specific name, ''hardwickii'', commemorates English naturalist Thomas Hardwicke who brought illustrations of the species from which J.E. Gray described it.〔Beolens B, Watkins M, Grayson M. 2011. ''The Eponym Dictionary of Reptiles''. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. xiii + 296 pp. ISBN 978-1-4214-0135-5. (''Uromastyx hardwickii'', p. 116).〕
It has been suggested that ''Uromastyx sensu lato'' along with the sister group of ''Leiolepis'' may be considered as a distinct family, the Uromastycidae, however this is not widely accepted as the rest of the Agamidae do not form a clear sister group.
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