Agama bottegi

Agama bottegi
Conservation status
	; Data Deficient (IUCN 3.1)
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Reptilia
Order:	Squamata
Suborder:	Iguania
Family:	Agamidae
Genus:	Agama
Species:	A. bottegi
Binomial name
	Agama bottegi; Boulenger, 1897

Last updated September 10, 2023

Agama bottegi, also known commonly as the Somali agama, is a species of lizard in the family Agamidae. The species is endemic to Somalia.^[2]

Etymology

The specific name, bottegi, is in honor of Italian explorer Vittorio Bottego.^[3]

Habitat

The preferred natural habitat of A. bottegi is shrubland.^[1]

Description

Large for its genus, A. bottegi, may attain a snout-to-vent length (SVL) of 12 cm (4.7 in) and total length (including tail) of 35.5 cm (14.0 in).^[2]

Reproduction

A. bottegi is oviparous.^[2]

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References

1 2 Spawls S (2021). "Agama bottegi ". The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species . IUCN. 2021: e.T17450397A17450401. doi: 10.2305/IUCN.UK.2021-1.RLTS.T17450397A17450401.en .
1 2 3 Agama bottegi at the Reptarium.cz Reptile Database . Accessed 20 October 2020.
↑ 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 bottegi, p. 33).

Boulenger GA (1897). "Concluding Report on the late Capt. Bottego's collection of Reptiles and Batrachian's from Somaliland and British East Africa". Annali del Museo Civico di Storia Naturale di Genova, Serie Seconda [= Second Series] 18: 715–723 + Plates IX–X. (Agama bottegi, new species, p. 717 + Plate IX, figures 1 & 1a).
Lanza B (1978). "On some new or interesting East African amphibians and reptiles". Monitore Zoologico Italiano, Supplemento10 (14): 229–297. (Agama bottegi, pp. 276, 278 + Figure 41). (in English, with an abstract in Italian).
Lanza B (1990). "Amphibians and reptiles of the Somali Democratic Republic" check list and biogeography". Biogeographia14: 407–465. (Agama bottegi, p. 419).
Wagner P, Leaché A, Mazuch T, Böhme W (2013). "Additions to the lizard diversity of the Horn of Africa: Two new species in the Agama spinosa group". Amphibia-Reptilia34 (3): 363–387.

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[iucn-1] 1 2 Spawls S (2021). "Agama bottegi ". The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species . IUCN. 2021: e.T17450397A17450401. doi: 10.2305/IUCN.UK.2021-1.RLTS.T17450397A17450401.en .

[RDB-2] 1 2 3 Agama bottegi at the Reptarium.cz Reptile Database . Accessed 20 October 2020.

[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 bottegi, p. 33).

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