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Superregnum: Eukaryota
Regnum: Animalia
Subregnum: Eumetazoa
Cladus: Bilateria
Cladus: Nephrozoa
Superphylum: Deuterostomia
Phylum: Chordata
Cladus: Craniata
Subphylum: Vertebrata
Infraphylum: Gnathostomata
Superclassis: Tetrapoda
Cladus: Reptiliomorpha
Cladus: Amniota
Classis: Reptilia
Cladus: Eureptilia
Cladus: Romeriida
Subclassis: Diapsida
Cladus: Sauria
Infraclassis: Lepidosauromorpha
Superordo: Lepidosauria
Ordo: Squamata
Cladus: Unidentata Episquamata Toxicofera
Subordo: Iguania
Infraordo: Acrodonta

Familia: Agamidae
Subfamilia: Agaminae
Genus: Xenagama
Species: X. batillifera – X. taylori – X. wilmsi
Name

Xenagama Boulenger, 1895: 534

Type species: Uromastix batilliferus Vaillant, 1882
References

Boulenger, G.A. 1895. An account of the reptiles and batrachians collected by Dr. A. Donaldson Smith in western Somaliland and the Galla Country. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1895: 530–540.

Vernacular names
日本語: カワリアガマ属

Xenagama is a genus of lizards in the family Agamidae. Species of the genus are native to Ethiopia and Somalia.
Species

The following four species are recognized as being valid.[1]

Xenagama batillifera (Vaillant, 1882) – beaver-tailed agama, (dwarf) turnip-tailed agama
Xenagama taylori (Parker, 1935) – dwarf shield-tailed agama, shield-tailed agama, Taylor's strange agama, turnip-tailed agama
Xenagama wilmsi Wagner, Mazuch & Bauer, 2013 - Wilms's agama, shield-tail agama, turnip-tail agama
Xenagama zonura (Boulenger, 1895) - Ethiopian ridgeback agama

Nota bene: A binomial authority in parentheses indicates that the species was originally described in a genus other than Xenagama.
References

Genus Xenagama at The Reptile Database www.reptile-database.org.

Further reading

Parker HW (1935). "Two new Lizards from Somaliland". Annals and Magazine of Natural History, Tenth Series 16: 525–529. (Xenagama, new subgenus, p. 525).
Wagner P, Mazuch T, Bauer AM (2013). "An extaordinary tail – integrative review of the agamid genus Xenagama". Journal of Zoological Systematics and Evolutionary Research 51 (2): 144–164.

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