Xenagama

Xenagama is a genus of lizards in the family Agamidae. Species of the genus are native to Ethiopia and Somalia.

Xenagama
Xenagama taylori
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Reptilia
Order: Squamata
Suborder: Iguania
Family: Agamidae
Subfamily: Agaminae
Genus: Xenagama
Parker, 1935

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
  • Xenagama zonura (Boulenger, 1895)

Nota bene: A binomial authority in parentheses indicates that the species was originally described in a genus other than Xenagama.

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References
  1. 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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