[2] Laudakia stellio may attain a total length (including tail) of 35 cm (14 in) or slightly longer.

It is usually found in rocky habitats, and is quite shy, being very ready to dive into cracks to hide from potential predators.

[citation needed] The common name "stellion" comes from Latin stellio, stēlio (stelliōn-, stēliōn-), from stella, star.

Angrily the goddess throws the drink in the face of the boy, and there by changes him into a Stellio or a starred agama.

For the indigenous people of Europe, and perhaps the Middle East, traditionally the excrement of the stellio was a popular medicine for the eyes, also used as a cosmetic, known as cordylea, crocodilea or stercus lacerti (i.e. 'lizard shit'), the faeces being imported to European pharmacies from the Levant – a rarer and more potent form was acquired from monitor lizards in olden days (stercus magni lacerti).