. Asiatic herpetological research. Reptiles -- Asia Periodicals; Amphibians -- Asia Periodicals. Vol. 5, p. 52 Asiatic Herpetological Research December 1993. FIG. 2. Habitat of Phrynocephalus versicolor in Djungar Gale near Druzhba Railway Station: crushed- stony and gravel semidesert covered with boyalych (Salsola orbuscula). Methods We studied the distribution of the variegated toad agama in June 1991 during investigations of the Djungar Gate territory (Fig. 1). Results and Discussion The Djungar Gate is a relatively narrow pass between the Balkhash-Alakol Depression and Chinese Djungaria. T
. Asiatic herpetological research. Reptiles -- Asia Periodicals; Amphibians -- Asia Periodicals. Vol. 5, p. 52 Asiatic Herpetological Research December 1993. FIG. 2. Habitat of Phrynocephalus versicolor in Djungar Gale near Druzhba Railway Station: crushed- stony and gravel semidesert covered with boyalych (Salsola orbuscula). Methods We studied the distribution of the variegated toad agama in June 1991 during investigations of the Djungar Gate territory (Fig. 1). Results and Discussion The Djungar Gate is a relatively narrow pass between the Balkhash-Alakol Depression and Chinese Djungaria. This pass is oriented from the northwest to the southeast and rising in elevation towards the southeast. The pass enters China near the Druzhba ("Friendship") railway station along the Lankol Valley. The Djungar Gate Valley is formed by the broad alluvial plain and gentle foothills of Maily Ridge and the Djavlau Mountains to the northeast and the more abrupt upthrust of the Djungar Alatau to the southwest. The surface of the valley alluvial plains varied with the degree of slope and ranged from boulders, rubble. gravels and fine gravels on a loess base with the finer sorted materials deposited farther from the mountains slopes. Southeast of Lake Zhalanashkol the valley floor is a broad alkaline plain (20-25 km.) with subsurface water. The dominate plant, Salsola orbuscula, (common Russian name = boyalych, also known in the United States as Russian thistle) is found on the lower slopes and alluvial plains of the valley. It is more widely distributed on the northeastern slopes but it is sometimes replaced by saxaul (Haloxylon sp). Wormwood (Artemisia sp.) is dominate among the grasses and nearly the only plant on flats without shrubs. From the Lankol Valley the toad agamas are distributed along both the northeastern and southwestern slopes above the Djungar Gate. Along the southwestern alluvial plain the toad agama is distributed 15-20 km. Please note that these images a
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