''Agamodon'' is a small

genus Genus (; : genera ) is a taxonomic rank above species and below family (taxonomy), family as used in the biological classification of extant taxon, living and fossil organisms as well as Virus classification#ICTV classification, viruses. In bino ...

of worm lizards in the family

Trogonophidae Trogonophidae (Palearctic worm lizards or desert ringed lizards) is a small family of amphisbaenians, containing six species in four genera. Geographic range Trogonophids are found in North Africa, the Horn of Africa, the Arabian Peninsula, and ...

. They are found in the

Horn of Africa The Horn of Africa (HoA), also known as the Somali Peninsula, is a large peninsula and geopolitical region in East Africa.Robert Stock, ''Africa South of the Sahara, Second Edition: A Geographical Interpretation'', (The Guilford Press; 2004), ...

and in the southern part of the

Arabian Peninsula The Arabian Peninsula (, , or , , ) or Arabia, is a peninsula in West Asia, situated north-east of Africa on the Arabian plate. At , comparable in size to India, the Arabian Peninsula is the largest peninsula in the world. Geographically, the ...

. The genus contains the following three species: * Angled worm lizard ''Agamodon anguliceps'' Peters, 1882 * Arabian worm lizard ''Agamodon arabicus'' Anderson, 1901 * Flat worm lizard ''Agamodon compressus'' Mocquard, 1888

References

Lizard genera Reptiles of Africa Reptiles of the Arabian Peninsula Taxa named by Wilhelm Peters {{lizard-stub