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==Species== Listed alphabetically.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://reptile-database.reptarium.cz/advanced_search?genus=Agama&exact%5B0%5D=genus&submit=Search|title=''Agama ''|publisher=The Reptile Database. www.reptile-database.org.|access-date=3 February 2014}}</ref> {| class="wikitable" |- ! Image !! Scientific name !! Common name !! Distribution |- |[[File:Agama aculeata 339725968 (cropped).jpg|120x120px]]||''[[Agama aculeata]]'' <br /><small>[[Blasius Merrem|Merrem]], 1820</small> || ground agama||Namibia, Botswana, Zimbabwe, Republic of South Africa, Mozambique, S Angola, Tanzania, Zambia, Eswatini |- |[[File:Agama africana (Cameroon) 02.jpg|120px]] ||''[[Agama africana]]'' <br /><small>([[Edward Hallowell (herpetologist)|Hallowell]], 1844)</small>|| West African rainbow Lizard ||Liberia, Ivory Coast, Sierra Leone ?, Guinea |- |[[File:Red-headed rock agama (Agama agama) male.jpg|120px]] ||''[[Agama agama]]'' <br /><small>([[Carl Linnaeus|Linnaeus]], 1758)</small> || red-headed rock agama, common agama, rainbow agama ||Benin, Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Cape Verde Islands, Chad, Gabon, Ghana, Guinea, Guinea Bissau, Kenya, Liberia, Mali, Mauritania, Nigeria, Senegal, Togo, and Madagascar |- |[[File:Lizard, Southern Namibia.jpg|120px]] ||''[[Agama anchietae]]'' <br /><small>[[José Vicente Barbosa du Bocage|Bocage]], 1896</small> || western rock agama, Anchieta's agama ||S Congo (Brazzaville), Angola, Namibia, Republic of South Africa (NW Cape), Botswana |- |[[File:Agama armata.jpg|120px]] ||''[[Agama armata]]'' <br /><small>[[Wilhelm Peters|W. Peters]], 1855</small> || tropical spiny agama ||South Africa, Mozambique, Namibia, Botswana, Zambia, Swaziland, southern Democratic Republic of the Congo (Zaire), southwestern Kenya, and central Tanzania |- |[[File:Agama atra male 2 (cropped).jpg|120x120px]]||''[[Agama atra]]'' <br /><small>[[François Marie Daudin|Daudin]], 1802</small> || southern rock agama|| Southern Africa |- |[[File:Agama impalearis.jpg|120px]] ||''[[Agama bibronii]]'' <br /><small>[[Oskar Boettger|Boettger]], 1874</small> || [[Gabriel Bibron|Bibron's]] agama ||Morocco but it extends south to Western Sahara and east into eastern Algeria |- | ||''[[Agama bocourti]]'' <br /><small>[[Alphonse Trémeau de Rochebrune|Rochebrune]], 1884</small> || [[Marie Firmin Bocourt|Bocourt's]] agama ||Senegal, Gambia |- | ||''[[Agama boensis]]'' <br /><small>[[:fr:Albert Monard|Monard]], 1940</small>|| || Guinea-Bissau, Guinea, Mali, Senegal |- |[[File:Agama bottegi 1897.jpg|120px]]||''[[Agama bottegi]]'' <br /><small>[[George Albert Boulenger|Boulenger]], 1897</small> || Somali agama|| Mali; Mauritania; Niger; Senegal |- | ||''[[Agama boueti]]'' <br /><small>[[:fr:Paul Chabanaud|Chabanaud]], 1917</small> || Mali agama|| Mali; Mauritania; Niger; Senegal |- | ||''[[Agama boulengeri]]'' <br /><small>[[Fernand Lataste|Lataste]], 1886</small> || [[George Albert Boulenger|Boulenger's]] agama|| Mali, Mauritania |- | ||''[[Agama caudospinosa]]'' <br /><small>[[Seth Eugene Meek|Meek]], 1910</small> || Elmenteita rock agama|| Kenya |- | ||''[[Agama cristata]]'' <br /><small>[[:fr:François Mocquard|Mocquard]], 1905</small> || insular agama||Guinea (Conakry), Mali |- | [[File:Agama lionotus dodomae 46036103.jpg|frameless|120x120px]] |''[[Agama dodomae]]'' <br /><small>[[Arthur Loveridge|Loveridge]], 1923</small>|| || Tanzania |- | ||''[[Agama doriae]]'' <br /><small>Boulenger, 1885</small> || Nigeria agama||Ghana, Togo, Nigeria, Central African Republic to Eritrea and Ethiopia, N Cameroon, Sudan |- | ||''[[Agama etoshae]]'' <br /><small>[[species:Geoffrey Roy McLachlan|McLachlan]], 1981</small> || Etosha agama||Namibia |- | [[File:Agamidae- Agama finchi leucerythrolaema (Finch’s Agama) male 2 (cropped).jpg|frameless|120x120px]]||''[[Agama finchi]]'' <br /><small>[[:de:Wolfgang Böhme (Zoologe)|Böhme]], [[species:Philipp Wagner|Wagner]], [[species:Patrick Kenyatta Malonza|Malonza]], [[:fr:Stefan Lötters|Lötters]] & [[:fr:Jörn Köhler|Köhler]], 2005</small> || Finch's agama, Malaba rock agama||W Kenya, Ethiopia |- |[[File:Harvard University Museum of Comparative Zoology - Agama gracilimembris.jpg|120px]] ||''[[Agama gracilimembris]]'' <br /><small>Chabanaud, 1918</small> || Benin agama||Ghana, Benin, Nigeria, Cameroon, Central African Republic, probably in Chad (L. Chirio, pers. comm.), Mali, Guinea (Conakry), Burkina Faso |- |[[File:Harvard University Museum of Comparative Zoology - Agama hartmanni.jpg|120px]] ||''[[Agama hartmanni]]'' <br /><small>W. Peters, 1869</small> || [[Karl Eduard Robert Hartmann|Hartmann's]] agama<ref>[[species:Bo Beolens|Beolens, Bo]]; [[species:Michael Watkins|Watkins, Michael]]; [[species:Michael Grayson|Grayson, Michael]] (2011). ''The Eponym Dictionary of Reptiles''. Baltimore. Johns Hopkins University Press. xiii + 296 pp. {{ISBN|978-1-4214-0135-5}}. (''Agama hartmanni'', p. 117).</ref>|| |- |[[File:Agama hispida 15346589.jpg|120x120px]]||''[[Agama hispida]]'' <br /><small>(Linnaeus, 1758)</small> || common spiny agama, southern spiny agama, spiny ground agama ||Republic of South Africa, Zimbabwe, Namibia, S Angola, Botswana, Mozambique, Malawi |- | ||''[[Agama insularis]]'' <br /><small>Chabanaud, 1918</small> || insular agama||Rooma Island, Guinea |- | ||''[[Agama kaimosae]]'' <br /><small>[[Arthur Loveridge|Loveridge]], 1935</small>|| Kakamega agama|| Kenya |- |[[File:Agama kirkii 98525252.jpg|120x120px]]||''[[Agama kirkii]]'' <br /><small>Boulenger, 1885</small> || [[John Kirk (explorer)|Kirk's]] rock agama||Malawi, Zambia, Zimbabwe, Mozambique, E Botswana, SW Tanzania |- | ||''[[Agama knobeli]]'' <br /><small>Boulenger & [[John Hyacinth Power|Power]], 1921</small>|| southern rock agama ||Namibia |- | ||''[[Agama lanzai]]'' <br /><small>Wagner, [[species:Adam D. Leaché|Leaché]], [[species:Tomáš Mazuch|Mazuch]] & Böhme, 2013</small>|| ||Somalia |- |[[File:Agama lebretoni 2013 2.jpg|120px]] ||''[[Agama lebretoni]]'' <br /><small>Wagner, [[species:Michael F. Barej|Barej]] & [[:fr:Andreas Schmitz|Schmitz]], 2009</small> || Lebreton's agama||Cameroon, Equatorial Guinea, Gabon, Fernando Poo (Bioko Island), Nigeria |- |[[File:Red-headed Rock Agama.jpg|120px]] ||''[[Agama lionotus]]'' <br /><small>Boulenger, 1896</small> || Kenyan rock agama||Tanzania, Uganda, Kenya, Ethiopia |- | ||''[[Agama lucyae]]'' <br /><small>Wagner & [[:fr:Aaron Matthew Bauer|Bauer]], 2011</small>|| ||N Ethiopia |- |||''[[Agama montana]]'' <br /><small>[[Thomas Barbour|Barbour]] & Loveridge, 1928</small> || montane rock agama||Tanzania |- | [[File:Mozambique Agama, imported from iNaturalist photo 152399578 on 27 January 2022.jpg|frameless|120x120px]]||''[[Agama mossambica]]'' <br /><small>W. Peters, 1854</small> || Mozambique agama||Tanzania, Malawi, Zambia, Mozambique, E Zimbabwe |- | ||''[[Agama mucosoensis]]'' <br /><small>[[:de:Walter Hellmich|Hellmich]], 1957</small> || Mucoso agama ||Angola (Mucoso, Dondo, and Libolo/Luati) |- |[[File:AgamaLizard.jpg|120px]] ||''[[Agama mwanzae]]'' <br /><small>Loveridge, 1923</small> || Mwanza flat-headed rock agama||Tanzania, Rwanda, Kenya |- |||''[[Agama parafricana]]'' <br /><small>[[species:Sébastien Trape|S. Trape]], [[species:Oleg Mediannikov|Mediannikov]] & [[species:Jean-François Trape|J. Trape]], 2012</small>|| ||Benin; Ghana; Togo |- | ||''[[Agama paragama]]'' <br /><small>[[species:Alice Georgie Cruickshank Grandison|Grandison]], 1968</small> || false agama||N Nigeria, N Cameroon, Mali, Central African Republic, Ghana, Burkina Faso, Benin, probably in W Chad (L. Chirio, pers. comm.), Niger |- | [[File:Harvard University Museum of Comparative Zoology - Agama persimilis.jpg|frameless|120x120px]]||''[[Agama persimilis]]'' <br /><small>[[Hampton Wildman Parker|Parker]], 1942</small> || painted agama, similar agama||Somalia, Ethiopia, E/NE Kenya |- |[[File:Bonn zoological bulletin - Agama picticauda.jpg|120px]] ||''[[Agama picticauda]]'' <br /><small>(W. Peters, 1877)</small> || Peter's rock agama<ref name="Invasive-Org-picticauda" /><ref name="iNaturalist-picticauda" /> ||Gabon |- |[[File:Namibian Rock Agama (Agama planiceps) (8603173387).jpg|120px]] ||''[[Agama planiceps]]'' <br /><small>W. Peters, 1862</small> || Namib rock agama||Namibia (Damaraland, Kaokoveld) |- | ||''[[Agama robecchii]]'' <br /><small>Boulenger, 1892</small> || [[:en:Luigi Robecchi Bricchetti|Robecchi's]] agama||N Somalia, E Ethiopia |- |[[File:Harvard University Museum of Comparative Zoology - Agama rueppelli.jpg|120px]] ||''[[Agama rueppelli]]'' <br /><small>[[Léon Vaillant|Vaillant]], 1882</small> || [[Eduard Rüppell|Rüppell's]] agama, arboreal agama||Somalia, E Ethiopia, Kenya, S Sudan |- |[[File:Agama sankaranica.jpg|120px]] ||''[[Agama sankaranica]]'' <br /><small>Chabanaud, 1918</small> || Senegal agama||Guinea (Conakry), Nigeria, Ivory Coast, Ghana, Burkina Faso, Benin, Togo, Mali, Cameroon (?), Senegal, Niger |- | ||''[[Agama somalica]]'' <br /><small>Wagner, Leaché, Mazuch & Böhme, 2013</small>|| ||NE Somalia |- | ||''[[Agama spinosa]]'' <br /><small>[[John Edward Gray|Gray]], 1831</small> ||Gray's agama, spiny agama ||Egypt, Sudan, N Ethiopia, Eritrea, Djibouti, N Somalia |- |[[File: Agama tassiliensis.jpg|120px]]||''[[Agama tassiliensis]]'' <br /><small>[[species:Philippe Geniez|Geniez]], [[species:José Manuel Padial|Padial]] & [[species:Pierre André Crochet|Crochet]], 2011</small>|| ||Mali (Adrar des Ifoghas), Niger (Aïr Mountains), Algeria (Ahaggar Mountains), Libya (Tassili n’Ajjer) |- | ||''[[Agama turuensis]]'' <br /><small>Loveridge, 1932</small> || ||Tanzania |- | ||''[[Agama wachirai]]'' <br /><small>Malonza, [[species:Stephen Spawls|Spawls]], [[species:Brian Finch|Finch]] & [[species:Aaron Matthew Bauer|Bauer]], 2021</small> || Marsabit rock agama ||Kenya |- |[[File:Harvard University Museum of Comparative Zoology - Agama weidholzi.jpg|120px]] ||''[[Agama weidholzi]]'' <br /><small>[[:fr:Otto von Wettstein|Wettstein]], 1932</small> || Gambia agama ||Senegal, Gambia, W Mali, Guinea-Bissau |- |} ''[[Nota bene]]'': A [[Binomial nomenclature|binomial authority]] in parentheses indicates that the species was originally described in a genus other than ''Agama''.
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