Agama hartmanni, also known commonly as Hartmann's agama, is a species of lizard in the family Agamidae. It is a small lizard native to northeastern Africa.
Etymology The specific name, hartmanni, is in honor of German anthropologist Karl Eduard Robert Hartmann (1832–1893).Beolens, Bo; Watkins, Michael; Grayson, Michael (2011). The Eponym Dictionary of Reptiles. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. xiii + 296 pp. . (Agama hartmanni, p. 117).
Geographic range A. hartmanni is found in Eritrea, Sudan, and South Sudan.
Habitat The preferred natural habitats of A. hartmanni are rocky desert, shrubland, and savanna.
Description Medium-sized for its genus, A. hartmanni may attain a snout-to-vent length (SVL) of , and a total length (including tail) of .
Reproduction A. hartmanni is oviparous.
References
Further reading Largen MJ, Spawls S (2010). Amphibians and Reptiles of Ethiopia and Eritrea. Frankfurt am Main, Germany: Edition Chimaira / Serpents Tale. 694 pp. . Peters W (1869). "Eine Mittheilung über neue Gattungen und Arten von Eidechsen ". Monatsberichte der Königlich Preussischen Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Berlin 1869: 57–66. (Agama hartmanni, new species, pp. 65–66). (in German and Latin). Scortecci G (1928). "Rettili dell'Eritrea esistenti nelle collezioni del Museo Civico di Milano". Atti della Società Italiana di Scienze Naturali e del Museo Civico di Storia Naturale in Milano 67 (3–4): 290–339. (Agama cornii, new species, pp. 318–320, Figure 7). (in Italian). Spawls S, Mazuch T, Mohammad A (2023). Handbook of Amphibians and Reptiles of North-east Africa. London, Oxford, New York, New Delhi, Sydney: Bloomsbury Wildlife. 640 pp. .