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Acanthocercus adramitanus (ANDERSON, 1896)

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Higher TaxaAgamidae (Agaminae), Sauria, Iguania, Squamata (lizards)
Subspecies 
Common NamesE: Anderson's Rock Agama, Hadramaut Agama
G: Hadramautagame 
SynonymAgama adramitana ANDERSON 1896: 31
Agama cyanogaster adramitana — KLAUSEWITZ 1954: 144
Agama cyanogaster adramitana — WERMUTH 1967: 12
Agama adramitana — ARNOLD 1980: 291
Stellio adramitanus
Acanthocercus adramitanus — SCHÄTTI & GASPERETTI 1994: 366
Laudakia adramitanus — MANTHEY & SCHUSTER 1999: 76
Acanthocercus adramitana — VAN DER KOOIJ 2001
Acanthocercus adramitanus — BARTS & WILMS 2003 
DistributionOman, Yemen, SW Saudi Arabia

Type locality: between Makalla and the Hadramut Valley.  
Reproductionoviparous 
TypesHolotype: BMNH 1897.3.11.47 (male) 
DiagnosisDiagnosis: Klausewitz 1954: 144


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CommentIllustration in BARTS & WILMS 2003. 
EtymologyApparently named after the type locality, Hadramut (Valley). 
References
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  • Anderson, John 1896. A Contribution to the Herpetology of Arabia, with a preliminary list of the reptiles and batrachians of Egypt. London, R. H. Porter, 124 pp. - get paper here
  • Arnold E N 1980. The scientific results of the Oman flora and fauna survey 1977 (Dhofar). The reptiles and amphibians of Dhofar, southern Arabia. JOURNAL OF OMAN STUDIES SPECIAL REPORT (No. 2): 273-332 - get paper here
  • Ball, L.D. & Borrell, J.S. 2016. An inventory of herpetofauna from Wadi Sayq, Dhofar, Oman. Journal of Threatened Taxa 8 (12): 9454-9460 - get paper here
  • Barts, M. & Wilms, T. 2003. Die Agamen der Welt. Draco 4 (14): 4-23 - get paper here
  • Busais, S. M., Alrahowi, H. M., & Abo-Alib, W. A. 2022. New Distributional Records of Some Lizards from Abyan Governorate, Yemen. [in Arabic] Samarra Journal of Pure and Applied Science, 4(2) - get paper here
  • Carranza S, Xipell M, Tarroso P, Gardner A, Arnold EN, Robinson MD, et al. 2018. Diversity, distribution and conservation of the terrestrial reptiles of Oman (Sauropsida, Squamata). PLoS One 13 (2): e0190389 - get paper here
  • Carranza, Salvador; Johannes Els; Bernat Burriel-Carranza 2021. A field guide to the reptiles of Oman. Madrid : Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas, 223 pp. [review in HR 53 (3): 531] - get paper here
  • Gardner, A.S. 2013. The amphibians and reptiles of Oman and the UAE. Edition Chimaira, 480 pp.
  • Grossmann, W. 2012. Das Portrait: Acanthocercus adramitanus (ANDERSON, 1896). Sauria 34 (4): 1-2 - get paper here
  • Khayrah, Y. & Fathy, Samah M. 2022. Biodiversity and Distribution of Lizards in Jazan area, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. Egyptian Academic Journal of Biological Sciences, B. Zoology 14(1): 249-259 - get paper here
  • Klausewitz,W. 1954. Eidonomische Untersuchungen über die Rassenkreise Agama cyanogaster und Agama atricollis. 1. Der Rassenkreis der Agama cyanogaster. Senckenbergiana biologica 35: 137-146
  • Manthey,U. & SCHUSTER,N. 1999. Agamen, 2. Aufl. Natur und Tier Verlag (Münster), 120 pp. - get paper here
  • Nečas, P. & Barts, M. 1994. Die Hadramautagame Acanthocercus adramitanus (ANDERSON, 1896) - Systematik, Biologie und Vermehrung im Terrarium. Sauria 16 (1): 3-10 - get paper here
  • Peters, G. 1982. Eine neue Wirtelschwanzagame aus Ostafrika (Agamidae: Agama). Mitt. Zool. Mus. Berlin 58 (2): 265-268 - get paper here
  • Rösler, Herbert and Wolfgang Wranik 2017. Untersuchungen und Beobachtungen zur Herpetofauna des Jemen. Jemen-Report Jg. 48 (1/2)
  • Schätti, B. & Gasperetti, J. 1994. A contribution to the herpetofauna of Southwest Arabia. Fauna of Saudi Arabia 14: 348-423
  • Schmidt,K.P. 1939. Reptiles and amphibians from Southwestern Asia. Publ. Field Mus. nat. Hist., zool. Ser., 24: 49-92 - get paper here
  • Sindaco, R. & Jeremcenko, V.K. 2008. The reptiles of the Western Palearctic. Edizioni Belvedere, Latina (Italy), 579 pp. - get paper here
  • Sindaco, Roberto; Riccardo Nincheri, Benedetto Lanza 2014. Catalogue of Arabian reptiles in the collections of the “La Specola” Museum, Florence. Scripta Herpetologica. Studies on Amphibians and Reptiles in honour of Benedetto Lanza: pp. 137-164 - get paper here
  • van der Kooij, Jeroen 2001. The herpetofauna of the Sultanate of Oman: Part 1: The amphibians, worm lizards, agamas and chameleons. Podarcis 1 (3): 71-83 - get paper here
 
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