Trapelus mutabilis (Merrem, 1820).

Length up to 90 mm. A medium-sized agama with a short head, depressed body, and irregular dorsal scalation. It is basically grey-brown in color with several darker bands, but the color can be variable; the male has a blue throat and violet flanks during the breeding season. The Desert Agama inhabits open, vegetated gravel desert; it is diurnal; feeds on insects and small lizards and climbs on small shrubs in the heat of the day. The female lays 5-12 eggs. This lizard is found, in Egypt, in the Western Desert particularly along the Western Mediterranean Coastal Desert, southward to the oases and vegetated areas, in and around the Qattara Depression. Its global range is from Morocco to Egypt, west of the Nile.

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