Sinai agame
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Sinai agame ( Pseudotrapelus sinaitus ) |
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The Sinai Agama ( Pseudotrapelus sinaitus , Syn. : Agama sinaita ) is a type of Agamen that in the Northeast Africa, Levant and parts of the Arabian Peninsula occurs.
features
The total length of the Sinai agame is around 18 cm, with the tail making up two thirds of the length. The limbs and tail are long and thin and allow good running and climbing properties. Usually Sinai agamas are brown in color. During the breeding season, however, males develop a conspicuous blue color to attract females' attention. Females have a gray-brown color all year round and often brownish-red spots on the sides.
Occurrence
The Sinai Agame occurs in southeast Libya , eastern Egypt , Israel , Palestine , Jordan , Syria , Saudi Arabia , the United Arab Emirates , Oman , eastern Sudan , Ethiopia , Eritrea and Djibouti . Sinai agamas live in arid mountain regions.
Way of life
The Sinai agame is diurnal and feeds on insects , arthropods and plants . It is cold-blooded and actively defends its territory, especially during the breeding season.
Systematics
The species was first described in 1827 by Carl von Heyden as Agama sinaita , whereby Heyden already referred to the assignment to the genus Agama as provisional due to the six shields that the Sinai Agame has behind the anus. Scott Moody placed the species in the genus Pseudotrapelus in 1980 . The Sinai agame is a type of the genus.
There are the subspecies Pseudotrapelus sinaitus sinaitus (Heyden, 1827) and the Pseudotrapelus sinaitus werneri (Moravec, 2002) named after the zoologist Franz Werner .
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c ARKive: Sinai-Agame. (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on September 6, 2015 ; Retrieved October 10, 2013 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ^ Senkenbergische Naturforschenden Gesellschaft (Hrsg.): Atlas to the journey in northern Africa by Eduard Rüppell. First division: Carl HG v. Heyden : Zoology. Reptiles. Senkenbergische Naturforschenden Gesellschaft, Frankfurt am Main 1827, pp. 10-12, digitized .
- ↑ a b Pseudotrapelus sinaitus in The Reptile Database
