Agama aculeata (Merrem, 1820)

Baptista, Ninda L., António, Telmo & Branch, William R., 2019, The herpetofauna of Bicuar National Park and surroundings, southwestern Angola: a preliminary checklist, Amphibian & Reptile Conservation (e 203) 13 (2), pp. 96-130 : 107

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scientific name	Agama aculeata (Merrem, 1820)
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Ground Agama

Material: NB770 (32).

Comment: Ground Agamas occur widely in southern Africa ( Bates et al. 2014) and are reported throughout Angola ( Marques et al. 2018). The taxonomy of Angolan populations remains unresolved, and a recent phylogeny of Agama ( Leaché et al. 2014) did not include Angolan samples. Recently recorded in BNP ( Butler et al. 2019), in this study it was found on the ground in degraded shrubland in the outskirts of BNP.

References

Bates MF, Branch WR, Bauer AM, Burger M, Marais J, Alexander GJ, De Villiers MS. 2014. Atlas and Red List of the Reptiles of South Africa, Lesotho, and Swaziland. South African National Biodiversity Institute, Pretoria, South Africa. 487 p.

Butler BO, Ceriaco LPM, Marques MP, Bandeira S, Julio T, Heinicke MP, Bauer AM. 2019. Herpetological survey of Huila Province, southwest Angola, including first records from Bicuar National Park. Herpetological Review 50 (2): 225 - 240.

Leache AD, Wagner P, Linkem CW, Bohme W, Papenfuss TJ, Chong RA, Lavin BR, Bauer AM, Nielsen SV, Greenbaum E, et al. 2014. A hybrid phylogenetic - phylogenomic approach for species tree estimation in African Agama lizards with applications to biogeography, character evolution, and diversification. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 79: 215 - 230.

Marques MP, Ceriaco LMP, Blackburn DC, Bauer AM. 2018. Diversity and distribution of the amphibians and terrestrial reptiles of Angola: atlas of historical and bibliographic records (1840 - 2017). Proceedings of the California Academy of Sciences 65 (Supplement II): 1 - 501.