Mwanza flat-headed rock agama

Agama mwanzae

Habitat

Associated with exposed rocky habitats, including rock outcrops, kopjes and boulder fields; shelters in crevices and beneath peeling granite surfaces.

Diet

Insects and other arthropods, Ants, Grasshoppers, Flies, Bees, Plant material, including flowers and fruit

Facts

• Breeding males develop bright reddish-pink heads, necks and trunks with blue limbs and tails, while females and juveniles are more cryptically olive, dark purple-grey or brownish and may show a pale dorsal streak.
• Although it eats a broad range of small foods, field observations recorded ants as its main food, alongside grasshoppers, flies, a bee and some plant material.
• This rock-dwelling agama uses crevices between large boulders and spaces beneath peeling granite as shelters.
• Females lay clutches of 7–8 eggs; the recorded average clutch size is 7.5 eggs.

Research sources

• GBIF Backbone Taxonomy
• ReptTraits — Agama mwanzae
• Notes on the behaviour and morphology of Agama mwanzae in northern Tanzania