Acanthocercus

Acanthocercus
Acanthocercus atricollis,
southern tree agama
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Reptilia
Order: Squamata
Suborder: Iguania
Family: Agamidae
Subfamily: Agaminae
Genus: Acanthocercus
Fitzinger, 1843

Acanthocercus is a genus of lizards in the family Agamidae. The genus is endemic to Africa and the Arabian Peninsula.

Species

Common name Scientific name IUCN Red List Status Distribution Picture
Anderson's rock agama, Hadramaut agama Acanthocercus adramitanus
(Anderson, 1896)
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Eritrean ridgeback agama, Eritrean rock agama Acanthocercus annectans
(Blanford, 1870)
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black-necked agama, black-necked ridgeback agama, blue-headed tree agama, blue-throated agama, southern tree agama Acanthocercus atricollis
(A. Smith, 1849)
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Acanthocercus branchi
Wagner, Greenbaum & Bauer, 2012
Zambia
Acanthocercus ceriacoi
Marques, Parrinha, Santos, Bandeira, Butler, Sousa, Bauer, & Wagner, 2022
Falk's blue-headed tree agama Acanthocercus cyanocephalus
(Falk, 1925)
black-necked tree agama, blue-bellied ridgeback agama Acanthocercus cyanogaster
(Rüppell, 1835)
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black-necked agama, blue-headed tree agama, blue-throated agama, southern tree agama Acanthocercus gregorii
(Günther, 1894)
Peter's ridgeback agama Acanthocercus guentherpetersi
Largen & Spawls, 2006
Kivu blue-headed tree agama Acanthocercus kiwuensis
(Klausewitz, 1957)
Acanthocercus margaritae
Wagner, Butler, Ceriaco, & Bauer, 2021
Namibia and Angola
black-necked agama, black-necked ridgeback agama, blue-headed tree agama, blue-throated agama, southern tree agama Acanthocercus minutus
(Klausewitz, 1957)
Phillips' ridgeback agama Acanthocercus phillipsii
(Boulenger, 1895)
Uganda blue-headed tree agama Acanthocercus ugandaensis
(Klausewitz, 1957)
Acanthocercus yemensis
(Klausewitz, 1954)
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Nota bene: A binomial authority in parentheses indicates that the species was originally described in a genus other than Acanthocercus.