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title: "Rainbow Agama"
description: "Agama agama — Rettili. The common agama or red-headed rock agama (Agama agama) is a species of lizard from the family Agamidae found in most of sub-Saharan Africa and in Florida where it has spread."
canonical: https://animalchecklist.com/it/animal/rainbow-agama
last_updated: 2026-09-20
---

# Rainbow Agama

> Agama agama — Rettili. The common agama or red-headed rock agama (Agama agama) is a species of lizard from the family Agamidae found in most of sub-Saharan Africa and in Florida where it has spread.

- Scientific name: *Agama agama*
- Category: `reptiles` (Rettili)
- Habitats: `urban` (Città e giardini), `savanna` (Savana)
- iNaturalist observations: 1898
- Wikidata: [Q770750](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q770750)
- iNaturalist taxon: [68056](https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/68056)

## Names

- en: Rainbow Agama
- de: Siedleragame
- es: Lagarto africano de fuego
- fr: Agame des colons
- nl: Kolonistenagame

## Countries with the most observations

SN (205), NG (121), GM (105), CM (28), LR (28), GH (27), TD (23), GA (22), GW (20), BJ (19), NE (16), CD (13)

## Summary

The common agama or red-headed rock agama (Agama agama) is a species of lizard from the family Agamidae found in most of sub-Saharan Africa and in Florida where it has spread. To clear up centuries of historical confusion based on Linnaeus and other authors, Wagner et al. designated a neotype (numbered ZFMK 15222) for the species, using a previously described specimen from Cameroon in the collection of the Zoologisches Forschungsmuseum Alexander Koenig in Bonn. The species name was formerly applied to a paraphyletic collection of taxa (a so-called wastebasket); subsequent mitochondrial DNA analysis of various populations…

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

## Photo

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

Photo: Francesco Cecere · CC0 · inaturalist — https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/38034843

## Machine access

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