Nomenclatural notes on Agama spinosa Gray, 1831 and Agama aspera Daudin, 1802
Author
Denzer, Wolfgang
Society for Southeast Asian Herpetology, Calle Rio Segura 26, 30600 Archena, Spain
Author
Campbell, Patrick D.
Science Department, Darwin Centre, Natural History Museum, Cromwell Road, South Kensington, London SW 7 5 BD, UK
text
Zootaxa
2024
2024-01-22
5403
3
391
395
http://dx.doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5403.3.9
journal article
10.11646/zootaxa.5403.3.9
1175-5326
10562080
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Agama spinosa
Duméril & Bibron, 1837
Syntypes
:
MNHN-RA
0.2608 (2122);
Ag
340; (also holotype of
Agama aspera
Daudin, 1802
);
Cap de Bonne Espérance
; without collector.
MNHN-RA
0.393 (2124);
Ag
340/7.
MNHN-RA
0.2607 (2119), MNHN-RA-0.2607A;
Ag
340/3
.
MNHN-RA
0.2609 (2123);
Ag
340/6.
MNHN-RA
0.2615 (2120);
Ag
340/4 (Cape, coll.
Verreaux
).
MNHN-RA
0.6604 (2125),
MNHN-RA
0.6604A;
Ag
340/8.
MNHN-RA
0.6936 (2126),
MNHN-RA
0.6936A;
Ag
340/11.
MNHN-RA
0.6937 (2121);
Ag
340/5.
MNHN-RA
0.7492 (2187 zêta);
monté;
Ag
340/13. MNHN-RA 0.7493 (2187 éta);
Ag
340/14.
All
from
Cape
of
Good Hope
, coll.
Delalande
(except
MNHN-RA
0.2608 and
MNHN-RA
0.2615)
Type locality
: Cap de Bonne Espérance (
Cape
of Good Hope,
South Africa
)
Nomenclatural status
: Junior homonym of
Agama spinosa
Gray, 1831
and junior subjective synonym of
Agama hispida
(
Linnaeus, 1758
)
. The taxon name
Agama spinosa
Dumeril & Bibron, 1837
is not available for nomenclatural purposes within the genus
Agama
.