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NarrativeWikipediaarticle
Occurrence & distributionGBIF79 records
01Narrative
Agama sankaranica, also known as the Senegal agama, is a species of agamid lizard. It has a wide geographical distribution across West Africa, possibly reaching Cameroon in Central Africa. It is called mbuwo in the Mwaghavul language of Nigeria.Mwaghavul snakes, lizards and amphibians.
No narrative description available for this taxon yet.
How far back this lineage goes — and how we know. Everything here is measured in Ma, short for “mega-annum”: millions of years ago. The chart reads left to right like a calendar of the Earth, from the deep past on the left to today at the right edgetop to bottom like a core drilled through the Earth, from the deep past at the top down to today at the bottom.
At a glance
DNA clock origin4.42 Ma TimeTree
When this lineage existed
How to read this: the coloured strip along the bottomdown the left is the geological calendar — the standard epochs (Pliocene, Pleistocene…) every museum uses, shown so you can see which chapter of Earth's history this lineage lived in. This lineage is a young one, so the strip is zoomed in to epochs — the finer subdivisions inside a period. The orange marker is the DNA clock: DNA accumulates mutations at a roughly steady rate, so comparing this species' DNA with its relatives estimates when the lineage split off — independently of any fossil.
DNA clock origin
08Occurrence & distribution
Record type79 records
Wild obs. + sensor31
Museum / vouchered48
Range
Area of Occupancy AOO168 km²
Wildobservation + sensor
Human sightings and records, or camera-trap / sensor detections — someone (or a device) saw or captured the species in the wild.
Coordinate accuracy75% within 1 km
≤100 m 7≤1 km 2≤10 km 3
12 georeferenced · 19 without coordinates
Open the mapobservation + sensor31
Museum / Voucheredphysical evidence
Backed by a physical specimen — a herbarium sheet, sample or voucher held in a collection. “Vouchered” means supported by material evidence, not just an observation.
Coordinate accuracy12% within 1 km
≤100 m 3≤1 km 1≤10 km 30
34 georeferenced · 14 without coordinates
Open the institutions mapphysical evidence48
Wildobservation + sensor
Human sightings and records, or camera-trap / sensor detections — someone (or a device) saw or captured the species in the wild.
10Collections & institutions
Holding institutions7 of 8 geolocated
Institutions and collections holding physical, vouchered specimens of this species — click a row to fly to it on the map.
