# Psammophilus

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{{Short description|Genus of lizards}}
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{{Automatic taxobox
| name = ''Psammophilus''
| image = Peninsular Rock Agama (Psammophilus dorsalis)- Male breeding plumage- in Hyderabad, AP W IMG 7714.jpg
| image_caption = ''[Psammophilus dorsalis](/source/Psammophilus_dorsalis)'' male.
| taxon = Psammophilus
| authority = [Fitzinger](/source/Leopold_Fitzinger), 1843
| synonyms = ''Charasia'' <small>Gray, 1845</small><ref>Boulenger, CA (1890) Fauna of British India. Reptilia & Batrachia. p. 144</ref>
}}

'''''Psammophilus''''' is a genus of [agamid](/source/Agamidae) lizards found in India. Although the genus name means "sand loving" in Greek, they are found in rocky habitats.

==Species ==
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! Male !! Female !! Scientific name !! Common name !! Distribution
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|120px ||120px ||''[Psammophilus blanfordanus](/source/Psammophilus_blanfordanus)'' {{small|([Stoliczka](/source/Ferdinand_Stoliczka), 1871)}} || Blanford's rock agama||India (Chota Nagpur, as high as Parasnath Hill ). 
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|120px||120px ||''[Psammophilus dorsalis](/source/Psammophilus_dorsalis)'' {{small|([Gray](/source/John_Edward_Gray), 1831)}} || peninsular rock agama, South Indian rock agama||India (Western Ghats, Nilgiris, South Arcot, and Nallamalai Hills)
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|}

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Category:Psammophilus
Category:Lizard genera
Category:Taxa named by Leopold Fitzinger

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