Agama boueti, also known commonly as the Mali agama, is a species of lizard in the family Agamidae. The species is native to West Africa.
Etymology The specific name, boueti, is in honor of Georges Bouet (1869–1957), who was a French ornithologist and physician.Beolens B, Watkins M, Grayson M (2011). The Eponym Dictionary of Reptiles. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. xiii + 296 pp. . (Agama boueti, p. 33).
Geographic range A. boueti is found in Burkina Faso, Mali, Mauritania, Morocco, Niger, and Senegal.
Habitat The preferred natural habitats of A. boueti are savanna, shrubland, and rocky areas.
Description A small lizard, A. boueti may attain a snout-to-vent length (SVL) of , and a total length (including a long tail) of .Chabanaud (1917).
Diet A. boueti preys upon grasshoppers, ants, beetles, and other small arthropods. It also eats succulent plants.
Reproduction A. boueti is oviparous.
References
Further reading Böhme W, Heath J (2018). "Amphibian and Reptilian records from south-central Mali and western Burkina Faso". Bonn zoological Bulletin 67 (1): 59–69. (Agama boueti, p. 67, Figure 12). Chabanaud P (1917). "Énumération des Reptiles non encore étudiés de l'Afrique occidentale, appartenant aux Collections du Muséum, avec la description des espèces nouvelles ". Bulletin du Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle, Paris 23: 83–105. (Agama boueti, new species, pp. 85–87). (in French). Mediani M, Chevalier F (2016). "Agama boueti Chabanaud, 1917: new to the herpetofauna of Morocco and the northwesternmost record of the species". Herpetozoa 28 (3/4): 187–191.