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Tassili agama

Agama tassiliensis Geniez, Padial & Crochet, 2011

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The tassili agama (Agama tassiliensis) is a species in the family Agamidae, order Squamata. Recorded adults weigh about 30.2 g and reach 9.68 cm in length. Source checklists list it for 1 country: Mali.

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Quick facts about the tassili agama

Weight
30.2 g
Length
9.68 cm
Lifespan
Not recorded
Main food
Not recorded
Habitat
desert, shrubland
Young per litter or clutch
Not recorded
Reproduction
Eggs
Active
By day (diurnal)
Conservation status
Not recorded
Countries on record
1 countrysrc for Countries on record

How big is the tassili agama?

TASSILI AGAMA · LENGTH 9.68 CMADULT HUMAN · HEIGHT 1.7 M
At 9.68 cm, the recorded maximum length of the tassili agama is about 5.7% of the height of an adult human (1.7 m, a fixed reference used for scale).

Where does the tassili agama live?

Countries where Catalogue of Life checklists list the species. Many checklists carry no country data, so the list is often incomplete. It is not a range map.

The tassili agama is listed for 1 country.

Mali
  • Listed
  • Not listed
small islands are not drawn at this scale

The same countries as a list

  1. Mali

Why a country list is not a range map

Is the tassili agama endangered?

No conservation assessment is recorded for this species in our sources. That is not the same as being safe: it has not been matched to an assessment.

How is the tassili agama classified?

  1. kingdomAnimalia
  2. phylumChordata
  3. classReptilia
  4. orderSquamata
  5. familyAgamidae
  6. genusAgama
  7. SpeciesAgama tassiliensis Geniez, Padial & Crochet, 2011
Other names and names in other languages (5)
  • Tassilian agamaEnglish
  • حرذون الطاسيليArabic
  • Tassili-agamDanish
  • Agame du TassiliFrench
  • Agama del TassiliItalian

Catalogue of Life

Relatives of the tassili agama

Other species in the same genus Agama.

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Common questions

Answered only where our data holds the answer.

How big is the tassili agama?

An adult tassili agama weighs 30.2 g and measures 9.68 cm long, according to values recorded on Wikidata.

Where does the tassili agama live?

Catalogue of Life checklists list the tassili agama for 1 country: Mali. Checklist coverage is uneven, so the true range may be wider.

What kind of animal is the tassili agama?

The tassili agama (Agama tassiliensis) belongs to the family Agamidae in the order Squamata.

Sources and how to cite this page

Data as of 2026-11-11. How this page is put together.

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APA

CreatureData. (2026). Tassili agama (Agama tassiliensis). Retrieved from https://creaturedata.com/animals/tassili-agama

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“Tassili agama (Agama tassiliensis).” CreatureData, 2026, https://creaturedata.com/animals/tassili-agama.

BibTeX
@misc{tassili_agama_2026,
  title = {Tassili agama (Agama tassiliensis)},
  author = {{CreatureData}},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://creaturedata.com/animals/tassili-agama},
  note = {Data as of 2026-11-11}
}