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{{Short description|Genus of lizards}} {{Automatic taxobox | image = xenagama taylori1.jpg | image_caption = ''[[Xenagama taylori]]'' | taxon = Xenagama | authority = [[Hampton Wildman Parker|Parker]], 1935 }} '''''Xenagama''''' is a [[genus]] of [[lizard]]s in the [[Family (biology)|family]] [[Agamidae]]. [[Species]] of the genus are native to [[Ethiopia]] and [[Somalia]]. ==Species== The following four species are recognized as being valid.<ref>{{EMBL genus|genus=Xenagama}} www.reptile-database.org.</ref> *''[[Xenagama batillifera]]'' {{small|([[Léon Vaillant|Vaillant]], 1882)}} – beaver-tailed agama, (dwarf) turnip-tailed agama *''[[Xenagama taylori]]'' {{small|([[Hampton Wildman Parker|Parker]], 1935)}} – dwarf shield-tailed agama, shield-tailed agama, [[R. H. R. Taylor|Taylor's]] strange agama, turnip-tailed agama *''[[Xenagama wilmsi]]'' {{small|[[:de:Philipp Wagner (Biologe)|Wagner]], [[Tomáš Mazuch|Mazuch]] & [[:fr:Aaron Matthew Bauer|Bauer]], 2013}} - Wilms's agama, shield-tail agama, turnip-tail agama *''[[Xenagama zonura]]'' {{small|([[George Albert Boulenger|Boulenger]], 1895)}} - Ethiopian ridgeback agama ''[[Nota bene]]'': A [[Binomial nomenclature|binomial authority]] in parentheses indicates that the species was originally described in a genus other than ''Xenagama''. ==References== {{Reflist}} ==Further reading== *[[Hampton Wildman Parker|Parker HW]] (1935). "Two new Lizards from Somaliland". ''Annals and Magazine of Natural History, Tenth Series'' '''16''': 525–529. (''Xenagama'', new [[subgenus]], p. 525). *[[:de:Philipp Wagner (Biologe)|Wagner P]], [[Tomáš Mazuch|Mazuch T]], [[:fr:Aaron Matthew Bauer|Bauer AM]] (2013). "An extaordinary tail – integrative review of the agamid genus ''Xenagama''". ''Journal of Zoological Systematics and Evolutionary Research'' '''51''' (2): 144–164. {{Taxonbar|from=Q2699740}} [[Category:Xenagama| ]] [[Category:Lizard genera]] [[Category:Taxa named by Hampton Wildman Parker]] {{agamidae-stub}}
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