Lanikaz is one of Turkic tribes known from Arab and Persian Middle Age geographers and writers, possibly with a distorted form of Laktan, as being one of the seven tribes in the Kimak Kaganate in the period of 743-1050 AD. The other six constituent tribes per Abu Said Gardizi (died 1061) were Kimaks, Yamak, Kipchaks, Tatars, Bayandur, and Ajlad.