Trapelus, CUVIER, 1817

Wagner, Philipp, Melville, Jane, Wilms, Thomas M. & Schmitz, Andreas, 2011, Opening a box of cryptic taxa - the first review of the North African desert lizards in the Trapelus mutabilis Merrem, 1820 complex (Squamata: Agamidae) with descriptions of new taxa, Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 163 (3), pp. 884-912 : 893

publication ID	https://doi.org/ 10.1111/j.1096-3642.2011.00726.x
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scientific name	Trapelus
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TRAPELUS CUVIER, 1817

1817 Trapelus Cuvier, Règne animal 2, Rept. 35.

1843 Eremioplanis Fitzinger, Syst. Rept 1: 18, 82. Species typica (by monotypy): Agama mutabilis Merrem, 1820

1843 Planodes Fitzinger, Syst. Rept View in CoL 1: 18, 81. Species typica (designatio originalis): Agama agilis Olivier, 1807

1843 Trapeloides Fitzinger, Syst. Rept 1: 18, 81.

Type species: Agama mutabilis Merrem, 1820

Diagnosis: Tympanum small, diameter less than half of the orbit, deeply sunk. Head usually high rather than short. Caudal scales not forming distinct annuli. Only males with callous precloacal scales.

Species included and not part of this review: Trapelus microtympanum , Trapelus agilis , Trapelus megalonyx , Trapelus lessonae , Trapelus rubrigularis , Trapelus sanguinolentus , Trapelus flavimaculatus , Trapelus jayakari , Trapelus ruderatus .