Acanthocercus

Acanthocercus
Acanthocercus atricollis,
southern tree agama
Scientific classification
Kingdom:Animalia
Phylum:Chordata
Class:Reptilia
Order:Squamata
Suborder:Iguania
Family:Agamidae
Subfamily:Agaminae
Genus:Acanthocercus
Fitzinger, 1843
Species

9, see text

Acanthocercus is an African genus of agamid lizards.

Species

Listed alphabetically by specific name.[1]

  • Acanthocercus adramitanus (Anderson, 1896) – Anderson's rock agama
  • Acanthocercus annectens (Blanford, 1870) – Eritrean rock agama, Eritrean ridgeback agama
  • Acanthocercus atricollis (A. Smith, 1849) – southern tree agama, black-necked agama, blue-throated agama
  • Acanthocercus branchi Wagner, Greenbaum & Bauer, 2012Bill's tree agama
  • Acanthocercus cyanogaster (Rüppell, 1835) – black-necked tree agama
  • Acanthocercus guentherpetersi Largen & Spawls, 2006Peters' ridgeback agama
  • Acanthocercus phillipsii (Boulenger, 1895) – Phillips’ ridgeback agama
  • Acanthocercus yemensis (Klausewitz, 1954) – Yemen rock agama

Nota bene: A binomial authority in parentheses indicates that the species was originally described in a genus other than Acanthocercus.

References

  1. Acanthocercus, The Reptile Database.

Further reading

  • Fitzinger, L. (1843). Systema Reptilium, Fasciculus Primus, Amblyglossae. Vienna: Braumüller & Seidel. 106 pp. + indices. (Acanthocercus, new genus, p. 84). (in Latin).
  • Myers, P.; Espinosa, R.; Parr, C.S.; Jones, T.; Hammond, G.S. & Dewey, T.A. (2008): Animal Diversity Web - Genus Acanthocercus. Retrieved 2008-MAR-20.
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