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Uromastyx macfadyeni PARKER, 1932

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Higher TaxaAgamidae (Uromastycinae), Sauria, Iguania, Squamata (lizards)
Subspecies 
Common NamesE: Macfadyen’s Mastigure
G: Macfadyens Dornschwanzagame 
SynonymUromastix macfadyeni PARKER 1932: 353
Uromastix ocellatus – TORNIER 1905: 372 (fide PARKER 1932)
Uromastyx macfadyeni — LANZA 1983: 208
Uromastyx ocellata macfadyeni — LANZA 1988
Uromastyx macfadyeni — WILMS 2001
Uromastyx macfadyeni — WILMS et al. 2009
Uromastyx macfadyeni — TAMAR et al. 2017 
DistributionNW Somalia (West Galbeed)

Type locality: Berbera, British Somaliland (”Berbara” fide WILMS et al. 2009).  
Reproductionoviparous 
TypesHolotype: BMNH 1946.8.14.54 (formerly BMNH 1925.4.3.1) 
Diagnosis 
CommentAn illustration of the holotype is in WILMS (2002: 27). 
EtymologyNamed after Dr. William Archibald Macfadyen, a geologist and paleontologist in British Somaliland (now part of Somalia). 
References
  • Beolens, Bo; Michael Watkins, and Michael Grayson 2011. The Eponym Dictionary of Reptiles. Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore, USA - get paper here
  • Lanza, B. 1983. A list of the Somali amphibians and reptiles. MONITORE ZOOLOGICO ITALIANO, new Ser., SUPPL. 18 (8): 193-247 - get paper here
  • Lanza, B. 1990. Amphibians and reptiles of the Somali Democratic Republic: check list and biogeography. Biogeographia, 14: 407-465 [1988] - get paper here
  • Mazuch, Tomáš 2013. Amphibians and Reptiles of Somaliland and Eastern Ethiopia. Tomáš Mazuch Publishing, 80 pp. ISBN: 978-80-905439-0-4 - get paper here
  • Parker, H. W. 1942. The lizards of British Somaliland. Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool. Harvard 91: 1—101 - get paper here
  • Parker,H.W. 1932. Two collections af amphibians and reptiles from British Somaliland. Proc. Zool. Soc. London 1932: 335-367
  • Spawls, Stephen; Tomáš Mazuch& Abubakr Mohammad 2023. Handbook of Amphibians and Reptiles of North-east Africa. Bloomsbury, 640 pp. - get paper here
  • Tamar, Karin; Margarita Metallinou , Thomas Wilms , Andreas Schmitz , Pierre‐André Crochet , Philippe Geniez , Salvador Carranza 2017. Evolutionary history of spiny-tailed lizards (Agamidae: Uromastyx) from the Saharo-Arabian region. Zoologica Scripta 47: 159– 173 - get paper here
  • Wilms, T. 2001. Dornschwanzagamen, 2. Aufl. Herpeton, Offenbach, 142 pp. - get paper here
  • Wilms, T. 2002. Habits, care and breeding of spiny-tailed agamas (the Uromastyx-ocellata complex as an example). Reptilia (GB) (21): 19-29 - get paper here
  • Wilms, T. 2007. Dornschwanzagamen der Gattung Uromastyx - Einführung in Taxonomie und Ökologie einer auf Wüsten spezialisierten Echsengruppe. Draco 8 (31): 4-19 - get paper here
  • Wilms, Thomas; Böhme, Wolfgang; Wagner, Philipp; Lutzmann, Nicolà; Andreas Schmitz 2009. On the Phylogeny and Taxonomy of the Genus Uromastyx Merrem, 1820 (Reptilia: Squamata: Agamidae: Uromastycinae) – Resurrection of the Genus Saara Gray, 1845. Bonner zoologische Beiträge 56: 55-99 - get paper here
 
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