Agama cf. aculeata distanti Boulenger, 1902

Parrinha, Diogo, Calado, Francisco M. G., Marques, Mariana P., Bauer, Aaron M. & Ceríaco, Luis M. P., 2025, Echoes of a lost museum: Revision of the herpetological collections sent by Barbosa du Bocage from the Lisbon Museum to the British Museum of Natural History, Vertebrate Zoology 75, pp. 353-404 : 353-404

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scientific name	Agama cf. aculeata distanti Boulenger, 1902
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Agama cf. aculeata distanti Boulenger, 1902 View in CoL

Specimen.

Mozambique: Lourenço Marques : BMNH 1896.6.9.1 .

Comments.

In May 1896, Bocage (1896 a) recorded four specimens collected by Francisco Joaquim Dias Quintas (1851 – date of death unknown) in Lourenço Marques (currently Maputo) as “ Agama sp. ? ”. In the same year, in preparation for a work on the ground agamas of Angola ( Bocage 1896 b), he wrote to Boulenger to exchange specimens and opinions ( NHMA /DF/ZOO/235/1/1/1/76 ). In a letter dated 2 June 1896 Bocage discussed a shipment of Agama spp. to the British Museum, including a juvenile specimen from Mozambique (No. 3) that he tentatively identified as “ Agama hispida ? ”. The specimen was accessioned as Agama hispida with the number BMNH 1896.6.9.1 and a correction on the jar label indicates it was later reidentified as Agama armata . It was cited as Agama hispida var. armata by Boulenger and Power (1921). We provisionally treat the specimen as Agama cf. aculeata distanti based on geographic distribution and a striped gular pattern following Jacobsen (1992), although the status of the Agama aculeata complex requires further work to establish geographic and specific delimitations ( Leaché et al. 2014).