Agama finchi BÖHME, WAGNER, MALONZA, LÖTTERS & KÖHLER, 2005
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Agama finchi
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| Higher Taxa | Agamidae (Agaminae), Sauria, Iguania, Squamata (lizards) |
| Subspecies | Agama finchi finchi BÖHME et al. 2005 Agama finchi leucerythrolaema WAGNER et al. 2011 |
| Common Names | E: Finch’s agama |
| Synonym | Agama finchi BÖHME, WAGNER, MALONZA, LÖTTERS & KÖHLER 2005 Agama finchi — SPAWLS et al. 2018: 229 Agama finchi leucerythrolaema WAGNER et al. 2011 Agama finchi leucerythrolaema WAGNER, FREUND, MODRY, SCHMITZ & BÖHME 2011 |
| Distribution | W Kenya, Ethiopia Type locality: km 11 on road from Malaba to Busia, Western Province, Kenya (00°34 N, 34°11’E), 1500 m elevation. leucerythrolaema: N Uganda, Ehtiopia (Gambela), NW Kenya; Type locality: Murchison Falls, Uganda. |
| Reproduction | oviparous |
| Types | Holotype: NMK L 2534 2, adult male, collected by C. Bensch, B. A. Bwong, M. Hagen, V. Muchai and M. Peters, 12 October 2003; Paratypes: ZFMK Holotype: ZFMK 88809, adult male; collected by W. Freund, July 2009. Paratypes. ZFMK 88810, adult male from Murchison Falls, Uganda; collected by W. Freund, July 2009. ZFMK 88811, 88829, adult females from Murchison Falls, Uganda; collected by W. Freund, July 2009. ZFMK 88808, 88812–814, juveniles from Murchison Falls, Uganda; collected by W. Freund, July 2009. [leucerythrolaema] |
| Diagnosis | Diagnosis: A small species of Agama (total length of adult males below 25 cm) which is characterized by a bright nuptial coloration of breeding males, the females retaining a characteristic juvenile pattern. A. finchi sp.n. differs from A. agama sensu lato (see below) not only by the small size but mainly by the nuptial colors of breeding males: flame-to scarlet-red head and forelimbs (vs. yellow, orange or greenish), jet- or velvety-black body, and hindlimbs (vs. bluish) and a bicolored, viz. red and black tail (vs. three-colored: whit- ish, orangeyellow, and black in West and Central African forms or bluish with narrow light rings in East African forms). Moreover, the new species has less sharply keeled dorsal scales than the A. agama populations from Ethiopia, Sudan, Central and West Africa). A. finchi sp.n. differs from A. planiceps (Namibia, S. Angola) in having keeled (vs. smooth) dorsal scales and a different color pattern; from the geographically neighboring, parapatric species A. mwanzae by stronger mucrones at the dorsal scales and a different color pattern, from the likewise parapatric A. caudospinosa by a less spiny tail scalation and again a strikingly different color pattern. All three species attain a considerably larger size than A. finchi sp.n. (see Table 1). It should be noted here that also the taxon kaimosae Loveridge, 1935 (synonymized with A. caudospinosa by Loveridge 1936, but regarded as a full species by Moody 1980) the type locality of which (Kaimosi, Kakamega) is close to Malaba, is also much bigger than A. finchi sp.n. (35 vs. less than 25 cm maximum total length) and is also differently colored. |
| Comment | Illustration: Figure 147 in Largen & Spawls 2010 (not A. agama as indicated fide Wagner 2011, Salamandra 47: 61). Distribution: see map in Kissling et al. 2016: Fig. 1. |
| Etymology | Named after Brian W. Finchi who discovered this new species in the field. Etymology (leucerythrolaema). The new species is named after its remarkably characteristic red and white vermiculated throat as compared to the nominate form. The name is derived from the Greek words ‘leukos’ for white, ‘erythros’ for red and ‘laema’ for the throat. |
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