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Subfamily of lizards

Uromastycinae

Uromastyx ocellata
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Reptilia
Order:	Squamata
Suborder:	Iguania
Family:	Agamidae
Subfamily:	Uromastycinae Theobald, 1868
Genera
Two; see text

Uromastycinae is a subfamily of reptiles in the family Agamidae.

Genera

The subfamily consists of the following two genera:

Image	Genus	Species
	Saara Gray, 1845	Saara asmussi (Strauch, 1863) Saara hardwickii (Gray, 1827) Saara loricata (Blanford, 1874)
	Uromastyx Merrem, 1820	Uromastyx acanthinura Bell, 1825 – North African mastigure, North African spiny-tailed lizard Uromastyx aegyptia (Forskål, 1775) – Egyptian mastigure, Egyptian spiny-tailed lizard Uromastyx alfredschmidti Wilms & Böhme, 2001 – Schmidt's mastigure, Schmidt's spiny-tailed lizard Uromastyx benti (Anderson, 1894) – Bent's mastigure, Yemeni spiny-tailed lizard Uromastyx dispar Heyden, 1827 – Sudan mastigure Uromastyx (dispar) dispar Heyden, 1827 Uromastyx (dispar) flavifasciata Mertens, 1962 Uromastyx (dispar) maliensis Joger & Lambert, 1996 – Mali uromastyx Uromastyx geyri (L. Müller, 1922) – Geyr's spiny-tailed lizard, Saharan spiny-tailed lizard Uromastyx macfadyeni Parker, 1932 – Macfadyen's mastigure Uromastyx nigriventris Rothschild & Hartert, 1912 – Moroccan spiny-tailed lizard Uromastyx occidentalis Mateo, Geniez, Lopez-Jurado & Bons, 1999 Uromastyx ocellata Lichtenstein, 1823 – Ocellated spinytail Uromastyx ornata Heyden, 1827 – ornate mastigure Uromastyx princeps O’Shaughnessy, 1880 – princely spiny-tailed lizard, Somalian mastigure Uromastyx shobraki Wilms & Schmitz, 2007 Uromastyx thomasi Parker, 1930 – Omani spiny-tailed lizard, Thomas's mastigure Uromastyx yemenensis Wilms & Schmitz, 2007 – South Arabian spiny-tailed lizard

References

Uromasticinae, UniProt Taxonomy
Beolens, Bo; Watkins, Michael; Grayson, Michael (2011). The Eponym Dictionary of Reptiles. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. xiii + 296 pp. ISBN 978-1-4214-0135-5. (Uromastyx macfdyeni, p. 164).

External links

Media related to Uromastycinae at Wikimedia Commons
Data related to Uromastycinae at Wikispecies

Taxon identifiers
Uromastycinae	Wikidata: Q4006489 Wikispecies: Uromastycinae CoL: 87CPS ITIS: 1055385 NCBI: 145347 Paleobiology Database: 179270

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