| Acanthocercus | |
|---|---|
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| Acanthocercus atricollis , southern tree agama | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Reptilia |
| Order: | Squamata |
| Suborder: | Iguania |
| Family: | Agamidae |
| Subfamily: | Agaminae |
| Genus: | Acanthocercus Fitzinger, 1843 |
Acanthocercus is a genus of lizards in the family Agamidae. The genus is endemic to Africa and the Arabian Peninsula.
| Common name [1] | Scientific name [1] | IUCN Red List Status | Distribution | Picture | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Anderson's rock agama, Hadramaut agama | Acanthocercus adramitanus (Anderson, 1896) | LC IUCN [2] |  |  | |
| Eritrean ridgeback agama, Eritrean rock agama | Acanthocercus annectans (Blanford, 1870) | LC IUCN [3] |  |  | |
| black-necked agama, black-necked ridgeback agama, blue-headed tree agama, blue-throated agama, southern tree agama | Acanthocercus atricollis (A. Smith, 1849) | LC IUCN [4] |  |  | |
| Acanthocercus branchi Wagner, Greenbaum & Bauer, 2012 | Zambia |  | |||
| Acanthocercus ceriacoi Marques, Parrinha, Santos, Bandeira, Butler, Sousa, Bauer, & Wagner, 2022 | |||||
| Falk's blue-headed tree agama | Acanthocercus cyanocephalus (Falk, 1925) |  | |||
| black-necked tree agama, blue-bellied ridgeback agama | Acanthocercus cyanogaster (Rüppell, 1835) | LC IUCN [5] |  |  | |
| black-necked agama, blue-headed tree agama, blue-throated agama, southern tree agama | Acanthocercus gregorii (Günther, 1894) | ||||
| Peter's ridgeback agama | Acanthocercus guentherpetersi Largen & Spawls, 2006 | ||||
| Kivu blue-headed tree agama | Acanthocercus kiwuensis (Klausewitz, 1957) | ||||
| Acanthocercus margaritae Wagner, Butler, Ceriaco, & Bauer, 2021 | Namibia and Angola | ||||
| black-necked agama, black-necked ridgeback agama, blue-headed tree agama, blue-throated agama, southern tree agama | Acanthocercus minutus (Klausewitz, 1957) | ||||
| Phillips’ ridgeback agama | Acanthocercus phillipsii (Boulenger, 1895) |  | |||
| Uganda blue-headed tree agama | Acanthocercus ugandaensis (Klausewitz, 1957) | ||||
| Acanthocercus yemensis (Klausewitz, 1954) | LC IUCN [6] |  | |||
Nota bene : A binomial authority in parentheses indicates that the species was originally described in a genus other than Acanthocercus.
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