Agama hartmanni explained

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).^[1]

Geographic range

A. hartmanni is found in Eritrea, Sudan, and South Sudan.

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, and a total length (including tail) of .

Reproduction

A. hartmanni is oviparous.

Further reading

• Largen MJ, Spawls S (2010). Amphibians and Reptiles of Ethiopia and Eritrea. Frankfurt am Main, Germany: Edition Chimaira / Serpents Tale. 694 pp. .
• 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. .

Notes and References

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