Agama boueti

{{Short description|Species of lizard}}

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| status = LC

| status_system = IUCN3.1

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| taxon = Agama boueti

| authority = Chabanaud, 1917

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Agama boueti, also known commonly as the Mali agama, is a species of lizard in the family Agamidae. The species is native to West Africa.

Etymology

The specific name, boueti, is in honor of Georges Bouet (1869–1957), who was a French ornithologist and physician.Beolens B, Watkins M, Grayson M (2011). The Eponym Dictionary of Reptiles. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. xiii + 296 pp. {{ISBN|978-1-4214-0135-5}}. (Agama boueti, p. 33).

Geographic range

A. boueti is found in Burkina Faso, Mali, Mauritania, Morocco, Niger, and Senegal.{{NRDB species|genus=Agama|species=boueti|accessdate=20 October 2020}}

Habitat

The preferred natural habitats of A. boueti are savanna, shrubland, and rocky areas.

Description

A small lizard, A. boueti may attain a snout-to-vent length (SVL) of {{convert|7.7|cm|in|abbr=on}}, and a total length (including a long tail) of {{convert|22.2|cm|in|abbr=on}}.Chabanaud (1917).

Diet

A. boueti preys upon grasshoppers, ants, beetles, and other small arthropods. It also eats succulent plants.

Reproduction

A. boueti is oviparous.

References

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Further reading

  • Böhme W, Heath J (2018). "Amphibian and Reptilian records from south-central Mali and western Burkina Faso". Bonn zoological Bulletin 67 (1): 59–69. (Agama boueti, p. 67, Figure 12).
  • Chabanaud P (1917). "Énumération des Reptiles non encore étudiés de l'Afrique occidentale, appartenant aux Collections du Muséum, avec la description des espèces nouvelles ". Bulletin du Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle, Paris 23: 83–105. (Agama boueti, new species, pp. 85–87). (in French).
  • Mediani M, Chevalier F (2016). "Agama boueti Chabanaud, 1917: new to the herpetofauna of Morocco and the northwesternmost record of the species". Herpetozoa 28 (3/4): 187–191.

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Category:Agama (genus)

Category:Reptiles described in 1917

Category:Taxa named by Paul Chabanaud

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