Reptilia · Squamata
Trapelus agnetaeWerner, 1929
Northern Arabian Plain Agama
Photograph by Ryan van Huyssteen, CC BY, via iNaturalist
A ground-dwelling, day-active, omnivorous lizard from the Saharo-Sindian region, reaching 94 mm snout to vent.
Reptilia › Squamata › Agamidae › Trapelus
- Grows to
- 93.5mm
- greatest recorded
- Eats
- Omnivorous
- Active
- Diurnal
- Lives up to
- 2.6years
Longer than 52% of all agamids anyone has measured.
The bar is the rank itself: its length is the share of the family this animal exceeds. The chart below is the family’s real spread, on a logarithmic scale because body length here runs from 32 to 418 mm. The solid rule is this animal. Every bar is a count of real species, and nothing on this figure is estimated.
What is known
42 sourced facts, each taken from a named scientific dataset. How to read these.
Cited from a dataset unless a row is marked otherwise.
Standing in the world
- Still living
- Extant
- Conservation status
- Least Concern
- Status assessed · the year the Red List last looked
- 2012
- Population trend
- Stable
The animal itself
- Limbs
- Four legs
- Venomous
- No
- Fangs
- None
- Longest recorded life
- 2.6years
- Body temperature when active · measured in the wild
- 37.05°C99 °F
- Body temp in the wild · mean, when active
- 35.6–38.5°C96–101 °F
TAUM 13518 died 2 years and 7 months after collection
mean body temperature of active individuals in nature
body temperature of active animals in nature
Size
- Length snout to vent · greatest recorded
- 93.5mm3.75 in
- Length snout to vent · adult female mean
- 75.2mm3 in
- Largest female · snout to vent
- 75.2mm3 in
- Hatchling length · snout to vent
- 28.5mm1 in
- Largest juvenile · snout to vent
- 28.5mm1 in
- Body mass · greatestcomputed
- 27.13g0.96 oz
- Body mass · adult female, meanmeasured
- 11.28g0.4 oz
- Body mass at hatchingmeasured
- 0.6g0.02 oz
max 93.5 mm SVL (Feldman et al. 2016)
snout-vent length; the source column mixes this with straight carapace length
computed from length by a family-level allometric equation, not weighed
How it lives
- Diet
- Omnivorous
- How it hunts
- Sit and wait
- Active
- Diurnal
- Where it lives
- Terrestrial
- Habitat
- Desert, Rocky
- Biome
- Deserts & Xeric Shrublands
- Active season · months of the year
- 12months
- Region
- Saharo-Sindian
- Mainland or island
- Mainland
- Elevation · above sea level
- 600–800m
- Range size
- 1,353,215km²
(SM, pers. obs.), arthropods (Baker et al. 2021)
Werner 2016
Diurnal and heliophylic (pers obs. And e.g., Werner 2016)
pers obs. And e.g., Werner 2016
IUCN (600 to 800)
Breeding
- Reproduction
- Oviparous
- Average clutch
- 9.7eggs
- Eggs or young per clutch
- 1–12eggs
- Mean clutch
- 9.4–10eggs
- Clutches in a year
- 1.5per year
- Clutches a year
- 1–2per year
to 12 (Bar and Haimovitch 2014), about 10 (Arbel 1984), 10 (Amitai and Bouskila 2001), mean 9.4 (Werner 1995), 1-12, mean 9.4 (Werner 2016)
Naming and history
- Suborder
- Sauria
- Infraorder
- Acrodontia
- Subspecies
- No
- Described by
- Werner
- Moved to another genus · since it was first described
- Yes
- Described in
- 1929
- Type locality
- Iraq
Keeping one
14.5 in × 14.5 in × 9.25 in(37 × 37 × 23 cm)
Minimum length × width × height, for one animal. Bigger is always better.
The standard sizes ground-dwelling species at 4 × 4 × 2.5 times snout-vent length.
Mindestanforderungen an die Haltung von Reptilien (Sachverständigengutachten), German Federal Ministry for Nutrition, Agriculture and Forestry, Animal Welfare Division, 10 January 1997. The standard states these floor areas are recommendations rather than binding limits.
From this animal’s own snout-vent length of 3.75 in (93.5 mm), at 4 × 4 × 2.5 times it, following the German federal welfare standard — how this is worked out.
Active animals measured in the wild averaged 99 °F (37.1 °C).
Mean body temperature of active individuals measured in nature. A measurement of the animal, not a setting for a thermostat.
Feeding
A prey item should be no wider than the space between the animal's eyes.
Widely used across reptile husbandry references. The stated reason is that the gap approximates the width of the throat, so wider prey is associated with impaction. This is established practice, not a measurement.
4kJ per day
Worked out for an animal of 27 g, the heaviest recorded for Northern Arabian Plain Agama — so it is the top of the range, not a figure for a particular animal. Weigh yours and the number will be lower.
An upper estimate, not a feeding target, and not veterinary advice. The equation covers only what an animal burns staying alive, so a growing, gravid or recovering animal needs more — and it was measured on wild animals, which move far more than one in an enclosure. Body condition and a vet who knows the species are what a feeding decision should rest on. Where this comes from.
What nobody knows
These are not gaps in our research. No scientific dataset records them for this species — and saying so is information you cannot get from a reference that simply leaves a field out.
- — Length snout to vent · adult male mean
- — Length snout to vent · adult mean
- — Length nose to tail · greatest recorded
- — Female length · mean, nose to tail
- — Length nose to tail · adult male mean
- — Length nose to tail · adult mean
- — Largest male · snout to vent
- — Largest female · shell length
- — Largest male · shell length
- — Hatchling length · nose to tail
- — Largest juvenile · shell length
- — Egg length
- — Egg width
- — Body mass · a typical adult
- — Preferred body temperature · chosen in a laboratory gradient
- — Eats arthropods
- — Eats vertebrates
- — Eats plant matter
- — How the young develop
- — Gestation or incubation
- — First breeds from · youngest recorded
- — First breeds by · oldest recorded
- — Hatchling length · smallest recorded
- — Hatchling length · largest recorded
- — Age at first breeding · female
- — Mature from · youngest recorded
- — Mature by · oldest recorded
- — Size at maturity · smallest recorded
- — Size at maturity · largest recorded
- — Colour on the back
- — Pattern on the back
- — Pupil
- — Sex decided by
- — Red List criteria
- — Density · lowest recorded
- — Density · highest recorded
- — Home range · largest recorded
- — Active in
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Cite this page
The Reptile & Amphibian Encyclopedia (2026). Trapelus agnetae. Retrieved 2026-09-08, from https://www.allanglescreatures.com/species/trapelus-agnetae
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