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Agama weidholzi WETTSTEIN, 1932

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Higher TaxaAgamidae (Agaminae), Sauria, Iguania, Squamata (lizards)
Subspecies 
Common NamesE: Gambia Agama 
SynonymAgama weidholzi WETTSTEIN 1932: 304
Agama weidholzi — WERMUTH 1967: 26
Agama weidholzi — JOGER & LAMBERT 1996
Agama weidholzi — WAGNER & BAUER 2011
Agama weidholzi — MEDIANNIKOV, TRAPE & TRAPE 2012: 139 
DistributionSenegal, Gambia, W Mali, Guinea-Bissau

Type locality: ‘‘Urwald Sumpfgebiet, Tabadienké, 30 km S Diallakoto, Senegambien” [= Senegal]  
Reproductionoviparous 
TypesLectotype. NMW = NHMW 18318; Paratypes: MCZ 
DiagnosisDiagnosis: A dwarf Agama species with females (SVL 56– 65 mm) longer than males (SVL 54–62 mm). Body depressed, hind limbs long, reaching the area between ear opening and eye. No gular pouch. Tail one and a half times longer than SVL. Head convex. Upper head scales large, keeled; occipital scale enlarged, as large as ear opening. Nostril directed dorsolaterally, pierced in the posterior part of a long, slightly oval, swollen nasal scale below the canthus rostralis. Usually with one scale between the nasal and the first supraciliary scale. Supraciliary scales smooth. Nuchal and dorsal crests absent. Ear opening as large as the eye, tympanum superficial and exposed. Tufts of spinose scales absent from sides of neck. Sometimes one or two conical scales behind the ear hole. Body scales small, homogeneous (but tendency for rows of enlarged vertebral scales), keeled and nonmucronate, in 68–82 rows around midbody. Vertebral scales 32–48, 16–21 lamellae under fourth toe, and males with 6–10 precloacal pores usually in one row [from Grandison, 1969 and WAGNER & BAUER 2011]. 
CommentWermuth (1967) lists this species with a question mark indicating uncertain status.
MONARD (1940) included a specimen of this species in the type series of Agama boensis MONARD 1940 which is otherwise composed of Agama sankaranica CHABANAUD 1918 (fide BÖHME 2005: 155). 
Etymologynamed after the collector of the types, Alfred Weidholz, an Austrian banker and traveller. 
References
  • Barnett, Linda K. & Emms, Craig 2005. Common reptiles of The Gambia. Rare Repro, Hailsham, East Sussex, 24 pp.
  • Beolens, Bo; Michael Watkins, and Michael Grayson 2011. The Eponym Dictionary of Reptiles. Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore, USA - get paper here
  • Böhme, W. 2005. Presence of Agama weidholzi Wettstein, 1932 in The Gambia, West Africa. Salamandra 41 (3): 155-158 - get paper here
  • Gemel, R.; G. Gassner & S. Schweiger 2019. Katalog der Typen der Herpetologischen Sammlung des Naturhistorischen Museums Wien – 2018. Ann. Naturhist. Mus. Wien, B 121: 33–248
  • Grandison, A.G.C. 1969. Agama weidholzi of West Africa and Its Relationsship to A. gracilimembis. Bull. Inst. Fond. Afr. Noire (Ser. A) 31: 666-675
  • Joger U; Lambert M R K 1996. Analysis of the herpetofauna of the Republic of Mali, 1. Annotated inventory, with description of a new Uromastyx (Sauria: Agamidae). Journal of African Zoology 110 (1): 21-51 - get paper here
  • LEACHÉ, Adam D.; Rebecca A. CHONG, Theodore J. PAPENFUSS, Philipp WAGNER, Wolfgang BÖHME, Andreas SCHMITZ, Mark-Oliver RÖDEL, Matthew LEBRETON, Ivan INEICH, Laurent CHIRIO, Aaron BAUER, Edem A. ENIANG, & Sherif BAHA EL DIN 2009. Phylogeny of the genus Agama based on mitochondrial DNA sequence data. Bonner zoologische Beiträge 56 (4): 273–278 - get paper here
  • Monard, ALBERT 1940. Résultats de la mission du Dr. Monard en Guinée Portugaise 1937 – 1938. Arq. Mus. Bocage, Lisbon 11: 147-182
  • Trape, J.F.; Trape, S. & Chirio, L. 2012. Lézards, crocodiles et tortues d'Afrique occidentale et du Sahara. IRD Orstom, 503 pp. - get paper here
  • Wagner, P.; Ineich, I.; Leaché, A.D.; Wilms, T.M.; Trape, S.; Böhme, W. & Schmitz, A. 2009. Studies on African Agama VI. Taxonomic status of the West African Agama (Sauria: Agamidae) with prominent tail crests: Agama boulengeri Lataste 1886, Agama insularis Chabanaud, 1918 and Agama cristata Mocquard, 1905. Bonner zoologische Beiträge 56 (4): 239–253 - get paper here
  • Wagner, Philipp and Aaron Bauer 2011. A new dwarf Agama (Sauria: Agamidae) from Ethiopia. Breviora (527): 1-19 - get paper here
  • Wettstein, O. 1932. Eine neue Eidechse aus Senegambien. Zool. Anz. 99: 303-305
 
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