Acanthocercus

Acanthocercus is a genus of lizards in the family Agamidae. The genus is endemic to Africa and the Arabian Peninsula.

Acanthocercus
Acanthocercus atricollis, southern tree agama
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Reptilia
Order:	Squamata
Suborder:	Iguania
Family:	Agamidae
Subfamily:	Agaminae
Genus:	Acanthocercus Fitzinger, 1843

Species

Common name[1]	Scientific name[1]	IUCN Red List Status	Distribution	Picture
Anderson's rock agama, Hadramaut agama	Acanthocercus adramitanus (Anderson, 1896)	LC IUCN[2]
Eritrean ridgeback agama, Eritrean rock agama	Acanthocercus annectans (Blanford, 1870)	LC IUCN[3]
black-necked agama, black-necked ridgeback agama, blue-headed tree agama, blue-throated agama, southern tree agama	Acanthocercus atricollis (A. Smith, 1849)	LC IUCN[4]
	Acanthocercus branchi Wagner, Greenbaum & Bauer, 2012		Zambia
	Acanthocercus ceriacoi Marques, Parrinha, Santos, Bandeira, Butler, Sousa, Bauer, & Wagner, 2022
Falk's blue-headed tree agama	Acanthocercus cyanocephalus (Falk, 1925)
black-necked tree agama, blue-bellied ridgeback agama	Acanthocercus cyanogaster (Rüppell, 1835)	LC IUCN[5]
black-necked agama, blue-headed tree agama, blue-throated agama, southern tree agama	Acanthocercus gregorii (Günther, 1894)
Peter's ridgeback agama	Acanthocercus guentherpetersi Largen & Spawls, 2006
Kivu blue-headed tree agama	Acanthocercus kiwuensis (Klausewitz, 1957)
	Acanthocercus margaritae Wagner, Butler, Ceriaco, & Bauer, 2021		Namibia and Angola
black-necked agama, black-necked ridgeback agama, blue-headed tree agama, blue-throated agama, southern tree agama	Acanthocercus minutus (Klausewitz, 1957)
Phillips’ ridgeback agama	Acanthocercus phillipsii (Boulenger, 1895)
Uganda blue-headed tree agama	Acanthocercus ugandaensis (Klausewitz, 1957)
	Acanthocercus yemensis (Klausewitz, 1954)	LC IUCN[6]

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