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Agama africana (HALLOWELL, 1844)

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Higher TaxaAgamidae (Agaminae), Sauria, Iguania, Squamata (lizards)
Subspecies 
Common NamesE: West African Agama 
SynonymTropidolepis africanus HALLOWELL 1844: 171
Oreodeira gracilipes GIRARD 1857
Oreodeira gracilipes — BOULENGER 1885: 412
Agama savattieri ROCHEBRUNE 1884: 89
Tropidolepis africanus HALLOWELL 1844: 171
Agama agama savatieri — LOVERIDGE 1938: 52
Agama agama africana — LOVERIDGE 1941: 116
Agama agama africana — TAYLOR & WEYER 1958: 1198
Agama agama africana — WERMUTH 1967: 4
Agama sylvanus MACDONALD 1981
Agama sylvanus — OTA & HIKIDA 1987
Agama paragama sylvanus — JOGER in PETERS & HUTTERER 1990
Agama sylvanus — LEGRAND 2002
Oreodeira gracilipes — BARTS & WILMS 2003
Agama sylvana — PAUWELS & VANDE WEGHE 2008
Agama sylvanus — ULLENBRUCH 2010
Agama africana — MEDIANNIKOV, TRAPE & TRAPE 2012
Agama africana — TRAPE et al. 2012 
DistributionLiberia, Ivory Coast, Sierra Leone ?, Guinea (Conakry) (P. Wagner, pers. comm., 12 May 2014), Ghana

Type locality: Liberia.

savattieri: C Africa. Type locality: Gambie, Casamence, Mélacorée, Albréda (The Gambia), Bathurst (=Banjul, The
Gambia).  
Reproductionoviparous 
TypesHolotype: ANSP 7361
Holotype: USNM 6307, ANSP 6307 fide Moodey 1988 [Oreodeira gracilipes] 
Diagnosis 
CommentSynonyms: Oreodeira gracilipes was erroneously described from Australia with the type locality “New South Wales”. MOODY (1988) found it to be synoymous with A. a. africana. Agama sylvanus from southern Ghana is a junior synonym of A. africana fide Mediannikov et al. 2012.

Distribution: see map in Trape et al. 2012: 124 
EtymologyNamed after the type locality. 
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