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Pseudotrapelus sinaitus (HEYDEN, 1827)

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Higher TaxaAgamidae, Sauria (lizards) 
SubspeciesPseudotrapelus sinaitus sinaitus (HEYDEN 1827)
Pseudotrapelus sinaitus werneri MORAVEC 2002 
Common NamesE: Sinai Agama
G: Sinai-Agame 
SynonymAgama sinaita HEYDEN 1827
Agama arenaria HEYDEN 1827 (fide MERTENS 1922)
Agama sinaita — DUMÉRIL & BIBRON 1837: 509
Agama straminea LICHTENSTEIN 1945 (nom. nud., syn. fide GRAY 1845)
Agama lichtensteini GRAY 1845 (nomen nudum; syn. fide GRAY 1845)
Agama sinaitica — RÜPPELL 1845 (nom. subst.)
Agama sinaita — BOULENGER 1885: 339
Agama sinaita — BOULENGER 1887: 407
Trapelus sinaiticus TRISTRAM 1888
Agama neumanni TORNIER 1905 (fide ARNOLD 1980)
Agama sinaita — HAAS 1957
Agama sinaita — WERMUTH 1967: 23
Pseudotrapelus sinaita — MOODY 1980
Agama sinaita — BISCHOFF & SCHMIDTLER 1981
Pseudotrapelus sinaitus — SCHLEICH, KÄSTLE & KABISCH 1996: 290
Pseudotrapelus sinaitus — MANTHEY & SCHUSTER 1999: 101
Pseudotrapelus sinaitus — SINDACO & JEREMCENKO 2008

Pseudotrapelus sinaitus werneri MORAVEC 2002
Pseudotrapelus sinaitus werneri — SINDACO & JEREMCENKO 2008 
DistributionSE Libya, E Egypt, Sinai, Israel, Jordan, Syria, Saudia Arabia / Arabian peninsula, United Arab Emirates, Oman, E Sudan, Ethiopia, Eritrea

Type locality: Sinai

werneri: S Syria and N Jordan (Basalt desert) 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.
 
TypesHolotype: (SMF 997
holotype4 and paratypes of Agama neumanni (ZMB 27418, 37225, 54522, and 54523, NMW 23341.
holotype of P. s. werneri (NMP6V 34860/1, 
CommentType species: Agama sinaita HEYDEN 1827 is the type species of the genus Pseudotrapelus FITZINGER 1843: 18, 81. 
References
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