Agama boueti
{{Short description|Species of lizard}}
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| status = LC
| status_system = IUCN3.1
| status_ref = {{Cite journal|last1=Wilms|first1=Thomas|author-link1=:de:Thomas Wilms|first2=Bourama|last2=Niagate|author-link2=:de:Bourama Niagate|last3=Wagner|first3=Philipp|author-link3=:de:Philipp Wagner (Zoologe)|title=Agama boueti |journal=The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species|page=e.T170368A15660336|date=2013|doi=10.2305/IUCN.UK.2013-1.RLTS.T170368A15660336.en|doi-access=free}}
| 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
Description
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:Reptiles described in 1917
Category:Taxa named by Paul Chabanaud
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