Erg agama
Species of lizard
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The erg agama (Trapelus tournevillei), also commonly known as the Sahara agama, is a species of lizard in the family Agamidae. The species is endemic to North Africa.[1]
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The specific name, tournevillei, is in honor of French herpetologist Albert Tourneville.[3]
T. tournevillei is found in Algeria and Tunisia.[1]
The natural habitat of T. tournevillei is hot deserts.[1]
T. tournevillei is oviparous.[2]
T. tournevillei is threatened by habitat loss.[1]
Beolens, Bo; Watkins, Michael; Grayson, Michael (2011). The Eponym Dictionary of Reptiles. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. xiii + 296 pp. ISBN 978-1-4214-0135-5. (Trapelus tournevillei, p. 267).
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- Boulenger GA (1885). Catalogue of the Lizards in the British Museum (Natural History). Second Edition. Volume I. ... Agamidæ. London: Trustees of the British Museum (Natural History). (Taylor and Francis, printers). xii + 436 pp. + Plates I–XXXII. ("Agama tournevilii [sic]", pp. 340–341).
- Boulenger GA (1919). "Sur l' Agama tournevillei Lataste, du Sahara algérien". Bulletin de la Société Zoologique de France 44: 111–115. (in French).
- Lataste F (1880). "Diagnoses de reptiles nouveaux d'Algérie". Le Naturaliste 2 (41): 325. (Agama tournevillei, new species). (in French).
- Schleich HH, Kästle W, Kabisch K (1996). Amphibians and Reptiles of North Africa. Koenigstein, Germany: Koeltz Scientific Books. 630 pp. ISBN 3874293777. (Trapelus tournevillei, new combination, p. 295).
