Uromastyx macfadyeni
{{Short description|Species of lizard}}
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| status = LC
| status_system = IUCN3.1
| status_ref = Mazuch T, Spawls S (2019). "Uromastyx macfadyeni ". The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2019: e.T199811A21708420. https://www.iucnredlist.org/species/199811/21708420. Downloaded on 20 December 2020.
| status2 = CITES_A2
| status2_system = CITES
| status2_ref = {{Cite web|title=Appendices {{!}} CITES|url=https://cites.org/eng/app/appendices.php|access-date=2022-01-14|website=cites.org}}
| genus = Uromastyx
| species = macfadyeni
| authority = H.W. Parker, 1932
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| synonyms = *Uromastix [sic] macfadyeni
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- Uromastyx ocellata macfadyeni
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Uromastyx macfadyeni, also known commonly as Macfadyen's mastigure, is a species of lizard in the family Agamidae. The species is endemic to Somalia.{{NRDB species|genus=Uromastyx|species=macfadyeni|accessdate=28 April 2021}}
Etymology
The specific name, macfadyeni, is in honor of British geologist William Archibald Macfadyen.{{EponymDictionaryReptiles}}{{rp|164}}
Habitat
Behavior
Uromastyx macfadyeni is terrestrial and diurnal. It shelters beneath stones and in crevices of stones.
References
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Further reading
- {{cite journal |last1=Lanza |first1=B. |author1-link=Benedetto Lanza |title=A List of the Somali Amphibians and Reptiles |journal=Monitore Zoologico Italiano. Supplemento |date=1983 |volume=18 |issue=1 |pages=193-247}} (in English, with an abstract in Italian).
- {{cite journal |last1=Lanza |first1=B. |title=Amphibians and reptiles of the Somali Democratic Republic: check list and biogeography |journal=Biogeographia |date=1990 |volume=14 |pages=407-465}} (Uromastyx ocellata macfadyeni, p. 420).
- {{cite journal |last1=Parker |first1=H.W. |author1-link=Hampton Wildman Parker |title=Two Collections of Reptiles and Amphibians from British Somaliland |journal=Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London |date=1932 |volume=1932 |pages=335–367}} (Uromastyx macfadyeni, new species).
- {{cite journal |last1=Parker |first1=H.W. |title=The Lizards of British Somaliland |journal=Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoölogy at Harvard College |date=1942 |volume=91 |issue=1 |pages=1-101}} (Uromastix [sic] macfadyeni, p. 55).
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Category:Reptiles described in 1932
Category:Taxa named by Hampton Wildman Parker
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