Agama hartmanni

{{Short description|Species of lizard}}

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| image = Harvard University Museum of Comparative Zoology - Agama hartmanni.jpg

| status = LC

| status_system = IUCN3.1

| status_ref = {{Cite journal |author=Spawls S |author-link=species:Stephen Spawls |title=Agama hartmanni |journal=The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species |volume=2021 |page=e.T197430A2482688 |publisher=IUCN |date=2021 |doi=10.2305/IUCN.UK.2021-1.RLTS.T197430A2482688.en |doi-access=free}}

| taxon = Agama hartmanni

| authority = W. Peters, 1869

| synonyms = *Agama cornii {{small|Scortecci, 1928}}

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Agama hartmanni, also known commonly as Hartmann's agama, is a species of lizard in the family Agamidae. It is a small lizard native to northeastern Africa.

Etymology

The specific name, hartmanni, is in honor of German anthropologist Karl Eduard Robert Hartmann (1832–1893).Beolens, Bo; Watkins, Michael; Grayson, Michael (2011). The Eponym Dictionary of Reptiles. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. xiii + 296 pp. {{ISBN|978-1-4214-0135-5}}. (Agama hartmanni, p. 117).

Geographic range

A. hartmanni is found in Eritrea, Sudan, and South Sudan.{{NRDB species|genus=Agama|species=hartmanni|accessdate=20 October 2020}}

Habitat

The preferred natural habitats of A. hartmanni are rocky desert, shrubland, and savanna.

Description

Medium-sized for its genus, A. hartmanni may attain a snout-to-vent length (SVL) of {{cvt|9|cm|in}}, and a total length (including tail) of {{cvt|23|cm|in}}.

Reproduction

A. hartmanni is oviparous.

References

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Further reading

  • Largen MJ, Spawls S (2010). Amphibians and Reptiles of Ethiopia and Eritrea. Frankfurt am Main, Germany: Edition Chimaira / Serpents Tale. 694 pp. {{ISBN|978-3899734669}}.
  • Peters W (1869). "Eine Mittheilung über neue Gattungen und Arten von Eidechsen ". Monatsberichte der Königlich Preussischen Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Berlin 1869: 57–66. (Agama hartmanni, new species, pp. 65–66). (in German and Latin).
  • Scortecci G (1928). "Rettili dell'Eritrea esistenti nelle collezioni del Museo Civico di Milano". Atti della Società Italiana di Scienze Naturali e del Museo Civico di Storia Naturale in Milano 67 (3–4): 290–339. (Agama cornii, new species, pp. 318–320, Figure 7). (in Italian).
  • Spawls S, Mazuch T, Mohammad A (2023). Handbook of Amphibians and Reptiles of North-east Africa. London, Oxford, New York, New Delhi, Sydney: Bloomsbury Wildlife. 640 pp. {{ISBN|978-1472991447}}.

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Category:Agama (genus)

Category:Reptiles described in 1869

Category:Taxa named by Wilhelm Peters

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