Agama robecchii

Agama robecchii
Scientific classification
Kingdom:Animalia
Phylum:Chordata
Class:Reptilia
Order:Squamata
Suborder:Iguania
Family:Agamidae
Genus:Agama
Species: A. robecchii
Binomial name
Agama robecchii
Boulenger, 1892

Agama robecchii, commonly known as Robecchii’s agama, is a species of lizard in the family Agamidae.[1]

Taxonomy and etymology

This species was discovered by the explorer Luigi Robecchi Bricchetti in Somalia and described by George Albert Boulenger, director of the Natural History Museum (London) in 1892. G.A. Boulenger named the species robecchii in honor of said explorer.[2][3]

Distribution

This species is present in the Northern Somalia and in the Eastern Ethiopia.[4]

Habitat

This diurnal and terrestrial species live in sandy plains in holes in the ground.[5]

Description

Agama robecchii has a tail longer than the head and body, not depressed. The head does not show a nuchal crest, only a few spinose, not lanceolate scales. Whole of the dorsum is beset with larger spines, each of which has a ring of smaller spines at its base.[6]

Bibliography

  • Boulenger, G.A. (1892). "On some Reptiles collected by Sig. L. Bricchetti Robecchi in Somaliland". Ann. Mus. St. nat. Genova (2) 12: 5-15.
  • Lanza, B. (1990). "Amphibians and reptiles of the Somali Democratic Republic: check list and biogeography". Biogeographia 14: 407-465. [1988].
  • Largen, M.J.; Spawls, S. (2006). "Lizards of Ethiopia (Reptilia Sauria): an annotated checklist, bibliography, gazetteer and identification". Tropical Zoology 19 (1): 21-109.
  • Largen, M.J.; Spawls, S. (2010). Amphibians and Reptiles of Ethiopia and Eritrea. Frankfurt: Edition Chimaira. 694 pp.
  • Mazuch, Tomáš (2013). Amphibians and Reptiles of Somaliland and Eastern Ethiopia. Tomáš Mazuch Publishing. 80 pp. ISBN 978-80-905439-0-4.
  • Parker, H. W. (1942). "The lizards of British Somaliland". Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool. Harvard 91: 1-101.

References

  1. ↑ NCBI
  2. ↑ Boulenger, G.A. (1892). "On the Reptiles collected by Sig. L. Brichetti Robecchi in Somaliland"
  3. ↑ Beolens, Bo; Watkins, Michael; Grayson, Michael (2011). The Eponym Dictionary of Reptiles. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. xiii + 296 pp. ISBN 978-1-4214-0135-5. (Agama robecchii, p. 223).
  4. ↑ Reptile-database
  5. ↑ Inaturalist
  6. ↑ Parker, H. W. (1942). "The lizards of British Somaliland" Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool. Harvard 91: 1—101. (Agama robecchii, p. 48).


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