Xenagama
Genus of lizards
Xenagama | |
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Xenagama taylori | |
Scientific classification ![]() | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Reptilia |
Order: | Squamata |
Suborder: | Iguania |
Family: | Agamidae |
Subfamily: | Agaminae |
Genus: | Xenagama Parker, 1935 |
Xenagama is a genus of lizards in the family Agamidae. Species of the genus are native to Ethiopia and Somalia.
Species
The following four species are recognized as being valid.[1]
- Xenagama batillifera (Vaillant, 1882) – beaver-tailed agama, (dwarf) turnip-tailed agama
- Xenagama taylori (Parker, 1935) – dwarf shield-tailed agama, shield-tailed agama, Taylor's strange agama, turnip-tailed agama
- Xenagama wilmsi Wagner, Mazuch & Bauer, 2013 - Wilms's agama, shield-tail agama, turnip-tail agama
- Xenagama zonura (Boulenger, 1895) - Ethiopian ridgeback agama
Nota bene: A binomial authority in parentheses indicates that the species was originally described in a genus other than Xenagama.
References
- ^ Genus Xenagama at The Reptile Database www.reptile-database.org.
Further reading
- Parker HW (1935). "Two new Lizards from Somaliland". Annals and Magazine of Natural History, Tenth Series 16: 525–529. (Xenagama, new subgenus, p. 525).
- Wagner P, Mazuch T, Bauer AM (2013). "An extaordinary tail – integrative review of the agamid genus Xenagama". Journal of Zoological Systematics and Evolutionary Research 51 (2): 144–164.
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