Agama anchietae Bocage, 1896
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https://doi.org/ 10.5281/zenodo.11066801 |
DOI |
https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.11104551 |
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https://treatment.plazi.org/id/F67087FF-534B-6D25-FF97-521CADEFB434 |
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Felipe |
scientific name |
Agama anchietae Bocage, 1896 |
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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.
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