In the "10th edition of Systema Naturae" of 1758, Linnaeus used the name Agama (pg. 288) as the species "Lacerta Agama" (with Agama originally capitalized to indicate a name in apposition rather than a Latin adjective, which he would have made lowercase). His own earlier description from 1749 was derived from Seba, who described and illustrated a number of lizards as "Salamandra amphibia" and "Salamandra Americana", said to resemble in some ways a chameleon lizard and that supposedly came (in error) from "America." Seba did not use the term "agama", however. Linnaeus repeated Seba's error in stating that the lizards lived in the Americas ["habitat in America"], and he included other types of lizards shown and mentioned by Seba under his species name "Agama".