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Agama armata PETERS, 1855

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Higher TaxaAgamidae (Agaminae), Sauria (lizards) 
Subspecies 
Common NamesPeter’s Ground Agama 
SynonymAgama armata PETERS 1855 (non Agama armata HARDWICKE & GRAY 1827)
Agama armata — BOULENGER 1885: 352
Agama hispida var. armata — BOULENGER & POWER 1921: 261
Agama hispida armata — MERTENS 1938
Agama hispida armata — FITZSIMONS 1943: 149
Agama hispida armata — LOVERIDGE 1957: 193
Agama hispida mertensi — WERMUTH 1967: 15 (nom. nov.)
Agama aculeata armata — AUERBACH 1987: 99
Agama aculeata armata — BOYCOTT 1992
Agama aculeata armata — BROADLEY & HOWELL 1991: 11
Agama armata — BARTS & WILMS 2003 
DistributionRepublic of South Africa, Mozambique, Namibia, Botswana, Zambia, Swaziland, S Democratic Republic of the Congo (Zaire), SW Kenya, C Tanzania; elevation 1400 - 2000 m, Zimbabwe

Type locality: (Rios de) Sena, Tete, Mossambique. Map legend:
TDWG region - Region according to the TDWG standard, not a precise distribution map.

NOTE: TDWG regions are generated automatically from the text in the distribution field and this does not always work properly. We are working on it.
 
TypesSyntypes: ZMB 4244-6, 4247 (3 specimens), 4248, 9199 
CommentThe validity of this species has been argued (JACOBSEN 1993). May be confused with A. aculeata. 
References
  • Barts, M. 2003. Die Agamen des südlichen Afrikas. Draco 4 (14): 70-79 - get paper here
  • Barts, M. & HAACKE 1997. Zur Reptilienfauna der Tsodilo-Berge und angrenzender Gebiete in NW-Botswana - Teil I: Testudines: Testudinidae; Sauria I. Sauria 19 (1): 3-12 - get paper here
  • Barts, M. & Wilms, T. 2003. Die Agamen der Welt. Draco 4 (14): 4-23 - get paper here
  • Boulenger, G.A. 1885. Catalogue of the Lizards in the British Museum (Nat. Hist.) I. Geckonidae, Eublepharidae, Uroplatidae, Pygopodidae, Agamidae. London: 450 pp. - get paper here
  • Boulenger,G.A. & POWER, J.H. 1921. A revision of the South African agamas allied to Agama hispida and A. atra. Transact. roy. Soc. S. Africa, CapeTown, 9: 229-287
  • Boycott, R.C. 1992. An Annotated Checklist of the Amphibians and Reptiles of Swaziland. The Conservation Trust of Swaziland, 1992; online at http://www.sntc.org.sz/checklst/sdreptam.html.
  • Broadley, D. G. & HOWELL, K. M. 1991. A check list of the reptiles of Tanzania, with synoptic keys. Syntarsus 1: 1—70
  • Broadley, Donald G. and F. P. D. Cotterill. 2004. The reptiles of southeast Katanga, an overlooked 'hot spot'. [Congo] African Journal of Herpetology 53 (1): 35-61. - get paper here
  • Broadley,D.G. 1962. On some reptile collections from the North-Western and North-Eastern Districts of Southern Rhodesia 1958-1961, with descriptions of four new lizards. Occ. Pap. Nat. Mus. South. Rhodesia 26 (B): 787-843
  • CONRADIE, W., ENGELBRECHT, H., HERREL, A., MEASEY, G.J., NIELSEN, S.V., V ANHOOYDONCK, B., & TOLLEY, 2011. Reptile survey of Venetia Limpopo Nature Reserve, Limpopo Province - South Africa African Herp News (55): 6-12
  • Dieckmann, M. 2005. Bodenagame Agama armata PETERS 1854. Iguana-Rundschreiben 18 (1): 4-8
  • FitzSimons, V.F. 1943. The lizards of South Africa. Transvaal Museum Memoir No.1 (Pretoria), 528 pp.
  • Haagner,G.V.; Branch,W.R. & Haagner,A.J.F. 2000. Notes on a collection of reptiles from Zambia and adjacent areas of the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Annals of the Eastern Cape Museum 1: 1 – 25
  • Jacobsen, N. H. G. 1992. The status of Agama aculeata armata Peters 1854, (Reptilia: Agamidae) J. Herpetol. Assoc. Afr. 41: 30-34 - get paper here
  • Jacobsen, N.H.G. 1993. The status of Agama aculeata armata Peters 1854, (Reptilia: Agamidae). J. Herp. Assoc. Africa 41: 30-34 - get paper here
  • Jacobsen, Niels H.G.; Errol W. Pietersen & Darren W. Pietersen 2010. A preliminary herpetological survey of the Vilanculos Coastal Wildlife Sanctuary on the San Sebastian Peninsula, Vilankulo, Mozambique. Herpetology Notes 3: 181-193
  • LEACHÉ, Adam D.; Rebecca A. CHONG, Theodore J. PAPENFUSS, Philipp WAGNER, Wolfgang BÖHME, Andreas S 2009. Phylogeny of the genus Agama based on mitochondrial DNA sequence data. Bonner zoologische Beiträge 56 (4): 273–278 - 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
  • 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]
  • Peters,W.C.H. 1854. Diagnosen neuer Batrachier, welche zusammen mit der früher (24. Juli und 17. August) gegebenen Übersicht der Schlangen und Eidechsen mitgetheilt werden. Ber. Bekanntmach. Geeignet. Verhandl. Königl.-Preuss. Akad. Wiss. Berlin 1854: 614-628
  • Spawls, S.; Howell, K.; Drewes, R.C. & Ashe, J. 2001. A field guide to the reptiles of East Africa. Academic Press, 543 pp. [reviews in HR 34: 396 and Afr. J. Herp. 51; 147]
 
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