Agama agama

Familia: Agamidae
Subfamilia: Agaminae
Genus: Agama
Species: Agama agama

Agama agama (Linnaeus, 1758)

• Lectotype: ZMUU 32, adult ♂. [designated by Mediannikov, Trape & Trape (2012: 126)]
• Type locality: “America” in error, designated as “coast of West Africa, probably Senegal or Ghana” by Mediannikov, Trape & Trape (2012: 124).
• Paralectotypes (3): NRM 107, 108 and 112.

• Lacerta agama Linnaeus, 1758: 207 [original combination]
• Agama agama — Andersson, 1900: 11 [subsequent combination]

• Agama colonorum Daudin, 1802: 356 [nomen substitutum pro Lacerta agama Linnaeus, 1758]
• Agama occipitalis Gray, 1827: 214
  • Syntypes: BMNH.
  • Type locality: not stated; designated as “Africa” by Gray (1831: 57).
• Agama colonorum var. congica Peters, 1877: 612
  • Syntypes: ZMB 9169, 54524 and 67193.
  • Type locality: “Chinchoxo (Westafrika)”.
• Agama wagneri Trape,, Mediannikov & Trape in Mediannikov, Trape & Trape, 2012: 137 [synonymised by Leaché et al. (2014: 228)]
  • Holotype: ZFMK 15222, adult ♂, collected by W. Böhme and W. Hartwig on 14 February 1974.
  • Type locality: “Mokolo (10°44’ N 13°47’ E), Cameroon”.

• Linnaeus, C. 1758. Systema Naturae per regna tria naturae, secundum classes, ordines, genera, species, cum characteribus, differentiis, synonymis, locis. Editio Decima, Reformata. Tomus I. Holmiæ (Stockholm): impensis direct. Laurentii Salvii. 824 pp. DOI: 10.5962/bhl.title.542 BHL Reference page. 
• Daudin, F.M. 1802. Histoire naturelle, générale et particulière, des reptiles : ouvrage faisant suite à l'Histoire naturelle générale et particulière, composée par Leclerc de Buffon, et rédigée par C.S. Sonnini. Tome Troisième. L'Imprimerie de F. Dufart: Paris. 452 pp. + pls. XXVI–XLV. BHL Reference page. 
• Gray, J.E. 1827. A description of a new genus and some new species of saurian reptiles; with a revision of the species of chameleons. The Philosophical Magazine. Series II 2(9): 207–214. DOI: 10.1080/14786442708675648 ; BHL Reference page. 
• Peters, W. 1877. Übersicht der Amphibien aus Chinchoxo (Westafrika), welche von der Africanischen Gesellschaft dem Berliner zoologischen Museum übergeben sind. Monatsberichte der Königlichen Preussischen Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Berlin 1877: 611–621. BHL Reference page. 
• Andersson, L.G. 1900. Catalogue of Linnean type-specimens of Linnaeus’s Reptilia in the Royal Museum in Stockholm. Bihang till Kongliga Svenska Vetenskaps-Akademiens Handlingar 24(1): 1–29. BHL Reference page. 
• Mediannikov, O., Trape, S., & Trape, J.-F. 2012. A Molecular Study of the Genus Agama (Squamata: Agamidae) in West Africa, with Description of Two New Species and a Review of the Taxonomy, Geographic Distribution, and Ecology of Currently Recognized Species. Russian Journal of Herpetology 19(2): 115–142. DOI: 10.30906/1026-2296-2012-19-2-115-142 [nonfunctional] Reference page. 
• Leaché, A.D., Wagner, P., Linkem, C.W., Böhme, W., Papenfuss, T.J., Chong, R.A., Lavin, B.R., Bauer, A.M., Nielsen, S.V., Greenbaum, E., Rödel, M.O., Schmitz, A., LeBreton, M., Ineich, I., Chirio, L., Ofori-Boateng, C., Eniang, E.A., El Din, S.B., Lemmon, A.R. & Burbrink, F.T. 2014. A hybrid phylogenetic-phylogenomic approach for species tree estimation in African Agama lizards with applications to biogeography, character evolution, and diversification. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 79: 215–230. DOI: 10.1016/j.ympev.2014.06.013 Reference page. 

• Wagner, P., Wilms, T.M., Bauer, A.M. & Böhme, W. 2009. Studies on African Agama V. On the origin of Lacerta agama Linnaeus, 1758 (Squamata: Agamidae). Bonner zoologische Beiträge 56(4): 215–223. PDF Reference page. 

• Uetz, P. & Hallermann, J. 2024. Agama agama. The Reptile Database. Accessed on 28 May 2021.
• Wilms, T., Wagner, P., Rödel, M.-O., Luiselli, L., Segniagbeto, G., Niagate, B. & Jallow, M. 2021. IUCN: Agama agama  (Least Concern). The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2021: e.T172799A1374221. DOI: 10.2305/IUCN.UK.2021-2.RLTS.T172799A1374221.en. Accessed on 17 June 2022.

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