Agama robecchii

Agama robecchii
Conservation status
Least Concern  (IUCN 3.1) [1]
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. The species is endemic to the Horn of Africa. ^{[1] [2]}

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. ^{[3] [4]}

Geographic range

A. robecchii is present in eastern Ethiopia and northern Somalia. ^{[1] [2]}

Behavior and habitat

A diurnal and terrestrial species, A. robecchii lives in sandy plains, in holes in the ground. ^[1]

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. ^[5]

References

1. Spawls, S.; Mazuch, T. (2021). "Agama robecchii ". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species . 2021 e.T17450908A17450912. doi: 10.2305/IUCN.UK.2021-1.RLTS.T17450908A17450912.en . Retrieved 23 March 2022.
2. Agama robecchii at the Reptarium.cz Reptile Database . Accessed 23 March 2022.
3. Boulenger GA (1892). "On the Reptiles collected by Sig. L. Brichetti Robecchi in Somaliland". Annali del Museo Civico di Storia Naturale di Genova, Serie Due12: 5-15 + Plate I. (Agama robecchii, new species, pp. 6-7 + Plate I, figure 1).
4. 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).
5. Parker HW (1942). "The lizards of British Somaliland" Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard91: 1—101. (Agama robecchii, p. 48).

Further reading

• Lanza B (1990). "Amphibians and reptiles of the Somali Democratic Republic: check list and biogeography". Biogeographia14: 407–465. [1988].
• Largen MJ, Spawls S (2006). "Lizards of Ethiopia (Reptilia Sauria): an annotated checklist, bibliography, gazetteer and identification". Tropical Zoology19 (1): 21–109.
• Largen MJ; Spawls S (2010). Amphibians and Reptiles of Ethiopia and Eritrea. Frankfurt am Main: Edition Chimaira / Serpents Tale. 694 pp. ISBN   978-3899734669.
• Mazuch, Tomáš (2013). Amphibians and Reptiles of Somaliland and Eastern Ethiopia. Tomáš Mazuch Publishing. 80 pp. ISBN   978-80-905439-0-4.

External links

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