Biology:Acanthodactylus longipes

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Short description: Species of lizard

Acanthodactylus longipes
Acanthodactylus longipes Front.jpg
Scientific classification edit
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Reptilia
Order: Squamata
Family: Lacertidae
Genus: Acanthodactylus
Species:
A. longipes
Binomial name
Acanthodactylus longipes
Boulenger, 1918
Synonyms[1]
  • Acanthodactylus scutellatus Var. longipes
    Boulenger, 1918
  • Acanthodactylus longipes
    — Bons & Girot, 1962
  • Acanthodactylus longipes panousei
    Bons & Girot, 1964
  • Acanthodactylus longipes
    — Salvador, 1982

Acanthodactylus longipes, commonly called the long fringe-fingered lizard, is a species of lizard in the family Lacertidae. The species is endemic to northwestern Africa.

Geographic range

A. longipes is found in Algeria, Chad, Egypt, Libya, Mali, Mauritania, Morocco, Niger, Tunisia, and Western Sahara.[1]

Reproduction

A. longipes is oviparous.[1]

References

  1. 1.0 1.1 1.2 Acanthodactylus longipes at the Reptarium.cz Reptile Database. Accessed 20 October 2015.

Further reading

  • Boulenger GA (1918). "Sur les lézards du genre Acanthodactylus Wiegm." Bulletin de la Société Zoologique de France 43: 143–155. (Acanthodactylus scutellatus Var. longipes, new variety, p. 154). (in French).
  • Padial JM (2006). "Commented distributional list of the reptiles of Mauritania (West Africa)". Graellsia 62 (2): 159–178.
  • Salvador, Alfredo (1982). "A revision of the lizards of the genus Acanthodactylus (Sauria: Lacertidae)". Bonner Zoologische Monographien (16): 1–167. (Acanthodactylus longipes, pp. 132–136, Figures 86–88, Map 26). (in English, with an abstract in German).

Wikidata ☰ Q2822544 entry