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title: "Ground Agama"
description: "Agama aculeata — Rettili. Agama aculeata, the ground agama, is a species of lizard from the family Agamidae, found in most of sub-Saharan Africa (Namibia, Botswana, Zimbabwe, South Africa, Mozambique, Southern Angola, Tanzania, Zambia, Eswatini)."
canonical: https://animalchecklist.com/it/animal/ground-agama
last_updated: 2026-09-20
---

# Ground Agama

> Agama aculeata — Rettili. Agama aculeata, the ground agama, is a species of lizard from the family Agamidae, found in most of sub-Saharan Africa (Namibia, Botswana, Zimbabwe, South Africa, Mozambique, Southern Angola, Tanzania, Zambia, Eswatini).

- Scientific name: *Agama aculeata*
- Category: `reptiles` (Rettili)
- Habitats: `savanna` (Savana)
- iNaturalist observations: 1545
- Wikidata: [Q1873231](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1873231)
- iNaturalist taxon: [68556](https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/68556)

## Names

- en: Ground Agama
- de: Kalahari-Stachelagame
- es: Agama de Tierra

## Countries with the most observations

ZA (946), NA (357), BW (95), AO (5), SZ (3), ZW (3)

## Summary

Agama aculeata, the ground agama, is a species of lizard from the family Agamidae, found in most of sub-Saharan Africa (Namibia, Botswana, Zimbabwe, South Africa, Mozambique, Southern Angola, Tanzania, Zambia, Eswatini).

Text: Wikipedia (en), CC BY-SA 4.0 — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agama_aculeata

## Photo

![Ground Agama](https://animalchecklist.com/img/animals/ground-agama/medium.jpg)

Photo: Innes Buchner · CC0 · inaturalist — https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/104478855

## Machine access

`GET https://animalchecklist.com/api/v1/animals/ground-agama?lang=it` — see [openapi.json](https://animalchecklist.com/openapi.json).