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Agama dodomae LOVERIDGE, 1923

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Higher TaxaAgamidae (Agaminae), Sauria, Iguania, Squamata (lizards)
SubspeciesAgama dodomae dodomae LOVERIDGE 1923
Agama dodomae ufipae LOVERIDGE 1932 
Common NamesE: Dodoma agama
G: Ostafrikanische Siedleragame 
SynonymAgama lionatus var. dodomae LOVERIDGE 1923: 944
Agama agama dodomae — LOVERIDGE 1957: 195
Agama agama dodomae — ROBERTSON et al. 1961
Agama agama dodomae — WERMUTH 1967: 4
Agama agama dodomae — BROADLEY & HOWELL 1991: 11
Agama lionotus dodomae — BÖHME et al. 2005
Agama dodomae — WAGNER et al. 2012
Agama lionotus dodomae — GRUBERMANN 2013
Agama dodomae dodomae — WAGNER et al. 2014
Agama dodomae — LETTOW-VORBECK 2016
Agama dodomae — SPAWLS et al. 2018: 227

Agama agama ufipae LOVERIDGE 1932: 377
Agama agama ufipae — LAURENT 1947: 4
Agama agama ufipae — BROADLEY & HOWELL 1991: 11
Agama lionotus ufipae — BÖHME et al. 2005
Agama dodomae ufipae — WAGNER et al. 2014 
DistributionTanzania

Type locality: Gwao’s, Dodoma, Ugogo, Tanganyika Territory.

ufipae: W Tanzania, Lake Tanganijka. Type locality: Kipili, Ufipa, Tanganyika Territory.  
Reproductionoviparous 
TypesHolotype: BMNH, paratype: FMNH 35268
Holotype: MCZ 30741 [ufipae] 
DiagnosisDiagnosis (ufipae): “The males of this new form differ from those of all other East African races of Agama agama in possessing a wholly blue throat instead of orange, carmine or red. It has an exceptionally high average (series small, however) number of midbody scale rows and number of preanal pores. Approaches A. a. lionotus and A. a. mwanzae in the very obtuse keeling of the dorsal scales of which there are 54 on the vertebral line between the origin of the fore limbs and the origin of the hind limbs; midbody scale rows 84 (range in paratypes 78-84, with an average of 82); upper labials 10; lower labiaIs 9-10 (range 9-11 upper and 9-11 lower); 4th finger a trifle longer than the 3d; preanal pores 15; tail flattened, its strongly spinose and mucronate scales forming annuli.” (Loveridge 1932: 376) 
CommentSynonymy: See also A. lionotus of which is was considered a subspecies before.

Distribution: see map in Kissling et al. 2016: Fig. 1. 
References
  • Böhme, W.; Wagner, P.; Malonza, P.; Lötters, S & Köhler, J. 2005. A new species of the Agama agama group (Squamata: Agamidae) from Western Kenya, East Africa, with comments on Agama lionotus Boulenger 1896. Russ. J. Herpetol. 12 (2): 143-150 (83-90?) - get paper here
  • Boulenger, G. A. 1896. Second Report on the Reptiles and Batrachians collected by Dr. A. Donaldson Smith during his Expedition to Lake Rudolf. Proc. Zool. Soc. London 1896: 212-217 - get paper here
  • Bretzel, J. & Gebler, J. 2019. Die Taita Hills - ein herpetologischer Bericht aus einer fragmentierten Landschaft. Elaphe 2019 (2): 80-85
  • Broadley, D. G. & HOWELL, K. M. 1991. A check list of the reptiles of Tanzania, with synoptic keys. Syntarsus 1: 1—70
  • Dobiey, M. & Wagner, P. 2007. Agama lionotus lionotus BOULENGER 1896 - Ostafrikanische Siedleragame. Reptilia (Münster) 12 (66): 51-54 - get paper here
  • Grubermann, M. 2013. Einige fotografische Beobachtungen an Agamen in Kenia, Tansania, Malawi, Südafrika und Namibia. Iguana 26 (1): 23-33
  • Herz, M. 2013. Herpetologische Eindrücke auf Safaris in Ostafrika. Reptilia (Münster) 18 (104): 81- - get paper here
  • Kissling, W. Daniel; Anne Blach-Overgaard, Roelof E. Zwaan & Philipp Wagner 2016. Historical colonization and dispersal limitation supplement climate and topography in shaping species richness of African lizards (Reptilia: Agaminae). Scientific Reports 6: 34014, doi:10.1038/srep34014 - get paper here
  • Laurent, R. 1947. Notes sur quelques reptiles appartenant a la collection du Musée Royal d'Histoire Naturelle de belgique. Bull. Mus. Hist. nat. Belg. 23 (16): 1-12
  • 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
  • Lettow-Vorbeck, N. von 2016. Tansanias Süden - Ein Paradies für Reptilien- und Wirbellosenfans. Reptilia 21 (122): 74-79 - get paper here
  • Lönnberg, E. 1922. Sammlungen der schwedischen Elgon-Expedition im Jahre 1920. Arkiv för Zoologi 14 (12): 1-8 - get paper here
  • Loveridge, A. 1920. Notes on East African lizards collected 1915-1919, with description of a new genus and species of skink and new subspecies of gecko. Proc. Zool. Soc. London 1920: 131-167 - get paper here
  • Loveridge, A. 1923. Notes on East African lizards collected 1920-1923 with the description of two new races of Agama lionotus Blgr. Proc. Zool. Soc. London 1923: 935-969 - get paper here
  • Loveridge, A. 1932. New reptiles and amphibians from Tanganyika Territory and Kenya Colony. Bull. Mus. comp. Zool. Harvard 72: 375-387 - get paper here
  • Loveridge, A. 1936. African reptiles and amphibians in the Field Museum of Natural History. Zool. Ser. Field Mus. Nat. Hist., Chicago, 22 (1): 1-122 - get paper here
  • Loveridge, A. 1957. Check list of the reptiles and amphibians of east Africa (Uganda, Kenya, Tanganyika, Zanzibar). Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool. Harvard 117 (2): 153-362 - get paper here
  • Malonza, Patrick K.; David M. Mulwa, Joash O. Nyamache, Georgina Jones 2017. Biogeography of the Shimba Hills ecosystem herpetofauna in Kenya. Zoological Research 38(5): 1-11 - get paper here
  • Mertens, R. 1938. Über eine herpetologische Sammlung aus dem Gebiete des Njarasa-Grabens Ost-Afrikas. Veröffentlichungen aus dem Deutschen Kolonial- und Übersee-Museum in Bremen 2 (1): 1-9 [no page numbers]
  • Robertson, I. A. D., B. M. Chapman and N. F. Chapman 1963. Notes on some reptiles collected in the Rukwa Valley, S. W. Tanganyika. Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. Ser. 13, 5(55): 421‑432 - get paper here
  • Spawls, Steve; Kim Howell, Harald Hinkel, Michele Menegon 2018. Field Guide to East African Reptiles. Bloomsbury, 624 pp. - get paper here
  • Theobald, K. & Scholdei, J. 2012. Haltung und Nachzucht der Siedleragame Agama lionotus dodomae. Iguana 25 (2): 8-12
  • Wagner, P. 2007. Studies in African Agama I.On the taxonomic status of Agama lionotus usambarae BARBOUR& LOVERIDGE, 1928. Herpetozoa 20 (1-2): 69-73 - get paper here
  • Wagner, P. 2014. A new cryptic species of the Agama lionotus complex from south of the Ngong Hills in Kenya. Salamandra 50 (4): 187-200 - get paper here
  • Wagner, P., A. Burmann & W. Böhme 2008. Studies on African Agama II - Resurrection of Agama agama kaimosae Loveridge, 1935 (Squamata: Agamidae) from synonymy and its elevation to species rank. Russ. J. Herpetol. 15 (1): 1-7 - get paper here
  • Wagner, P.; Barej, M.F. & Schmitz, A. 2009. Studies on African Agama VII. A new species of the Agama agama-group (Linnaeus, 1758) (Sauria: Agamidae) from Cameroon & Gabon, with comments on Agama mehelyi Tornier, 1902. Bonner zoologische Beiträge 56 (4): 285–297 - get paper here
  • Wagner, P.; Theobald, K. & Scholdei, J. 2012. Schwierige Taxonomie + Ergänzende Daten. Reptilia (Münster) 17 (93): 5-6 - get paper here
 
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