Agama robecchii
Agama robecchii, commonly known as Robecchii's agama, is a species of lizard in the family Agamidae.[1] The species is endemic to the Horn of Africa.
Agama robecchii | |
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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 | |
Taxonomy and etymology
A. robecchii was discovered by Italian explorer Luigi Robecchi Bricchetti in Somalia, and described by British herpetologist George Albert Boulenger of the Natural History Museum (London) in 1892. Boulenger named the species robecchii in honor of said explorer.[2][3]
Behavior and habitat
A diurnal and terrestrial species, A. robecchii lives in sandy plains, in holes in the ground.[5]
Description
Agama robecchii has a tail longer than its head and body. The body is not depressed. The head does not show a nuchal crest, only a few spinose, not lanceolate scales. The whole of the dorsum is beset with larger spines, each of which has a ring of smaller spines at its base.[6]
References
- NCBI
- Boulenger GA (1892). "On the Reptiles collected by Sig. L. Brichetti Robecchi in Somaliland". Annali del Museo Civico di Storia Naturale di Genova, Serie Due 12: 5-15 + Plate I. (Agama robecchii, new species, pp. 6-7 + Plate I, figure 1).
- 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).
- Species Agama robecchii at The Reptile Database www.reptile-database.org.
- Inaturalist
- Parker HW (1942). "The lizards of British Somaliland" Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard 91: 1—101. (Agama robecchii, p. 48).
Further reading
- Lanza B (1990). "Amphibians and reptiles of the Somali Democratic Republic: check list and biogeography". Biogeographia 14: 407–465. [1988].
- Largen MJ, Spawls S (2006). "Lizards of Ethiopia (Reptilia Sauria): an annotated checklist, bibliography, gazetteer and identification". Tropical Zoology 19 (1): 21-109.
- Largen MJ; 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.