Agama anchietae Bocage, 1896

Ceríaco, L. M. P., De Sá, S., Bandeira, S., Valério, H., Stanley, E. L., Kuhn, A. L., Marques, M. P., Vindum, J. V., Blackburn, D. C. & Bauer, A. M., 2016, Herpetological Survey of Iona National Park and Namibe Regional Natural Park, with a Synoptic List of the Amphibians and Reptiles of Namibe Province, Southwestern Angola, Proceedings of the California Academy of Sciences 63 (2), pp. 15-61 : 21

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.5281/zenodo.11066801

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.11104551

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/F67087FF-534B-6D25-FF97-521CADEFB434

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Felipe

scientific name

Agama anchietae Bocage, 1896
status

 

ANCHIETA’S GROUND AGAMA – Fig. 3 View FIGURE

Agama anchietae Bocage, 1896 View in CoL

MATERIAL.— INP, 29 November 2013, 16º39ʹ27.12ʺS, 12º26ʹ17.04ʺE, 459 m ( CAS 254778 About CAS ) GoogleMaps ; Pico Azevedo, 7 December 2013, 15º32ʹ2.4ʺS, 12º29ʹ31.1ʺE, 359 m ( CAS 254942 About CAS ) GoogleMaps ; NNP, 28 November 2013, 15º46ʹ27.4ʺS. 12º19ʹ59.2ʺE, 264 m ( CAS 254956 About CAS ) GoogleMaps .

COMMENTS.— These specimens have distinctive black-tipped spines on the palmar scales, which distinguish A. anchietae from the morphologically similar A. aculeata Merrem, 1820 that occurs sympatrically in Southern Angola and Namibia (Branch 1993). Agama anchietae View in CoL was described from Angola by Bocage based on specimens from Catumbela, Benguela and Dombe (all in Benguela Province), and Moçamedes (currently Namibe, Namibe Province). In Angola, the species is known to occur in Namibe Province ( Bocage 1896, 1897; Laurent 1964a), Benguela Province (Bocage 1863, 1896, 1897), and Bié Province ( Schmidt 1933). Our specimens represent the southernmost localities of the species in Angola, although it is certainly distributed continuously across the entire province.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Chordata

Class

Reptilia

Order

Squamata

Family

Agamidae

Genus

Agama

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