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Agama turuensis LOVERIDGE, 1932

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Higher TaxaAgamidae (Agaminae), Sauria, Iguania, Squamata (lizards)
Subspecies 
Common NamesG: Ostafrikanische Siedleragame 
SynonymAgama agama turuensis LOVERIDGE 1932: 376
Agama planiceps turuensis — LOVERIDGE 1936
Agama turuensis — WERMUTH 1967
Agama turuensis — WAGNER et al. 2008
Agama turuensis — SPAWLS et al. 2018: 230 
DistributionTanzania (probably from the Kenyan Nguruman Escarpment through the Ngorongoro area to mountains in the Dodoma area in Tanzania).

Type locality: Unyanganyi, east of Singida, Tanzania  
Reproductionoviparous 
TypesHolotype: MCZ R-30686 
DiagnosisDiagnosis: The males of this new form differ from those of all other races of Agama agama in possessing a black U-shaped marking on the base of their otherwise uniformly brick red throats. Midbody scale rows 78 (range in paratypes 72-82, with an average of 76 for fifty specimens); preanal pores 12 (range 9-14, with an average of 11.3 for thirty-four males; No. 30,691 has a double row of pores, each with 11 but only the posterior row is counted in assessing the average). (Loveridge 1932: 376)


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CommentSimilar species: A. lionotus or A. mwanzae (which used to be synonymized with Agama lionotus elgonis). 
EtymologyLoveridge does not explain the name. Apparently named after a place, but we cannot find “Turu” on contemporary maps of Tanzania, at least not near Singida. 
References
  • Loveridge, A. 1932. New reptiles and amphibians from Tanganyika Territory and Kenya Colony. Bull. Mus. comp. Zool. Harvard 72: 375-387 - get paper here
  • Spawls, Steve; Kim Howell, Harald Hinkel, Michele Menegon 2018. Field Guide to East African Reptiles. Bloomsbury, 624 pp. - get paper here
  • Wagner, P. 2008. Neues von afrikanischen Agamen. Iguana Rundschreiben 21 (1): 13
  • 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.; Krause, P. & Böhme, W. 2008. Studies on African Agama III. Resurrection of Agama agama turuensis Loveridge, 1932 (Squamata: Agamidae) from synonymy and elevation to species rank. Salamandra 44 (1): 35-42 - get paper here
 
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