Bedriaga's fringe-fingered lizard

Bedriaga's fringe-fingered lizard
Scientific classification
Kingdom:Animalia
Phylum:Chordata
Class:Reptilia
Order:Squamata
Family:Lacertidae
Genus:Acanthodactylus
Species: A. bedriagai
Binomial name
Acanthodactylus bedriagai
Lataste, 1881

Bedriaga's fringe-fingered lizard (Acanthodactylus bedriagai ) is a species of lizards in the family Lacertidae. The species is endemic to Algeria.

Etymology

Both the specific name, bedriagai, and the common name are in honor of Russian herpetologist Jacques von Bedriaga.[2]

Habitat

The natural habitat of A. bedriagai is subtropical or tropical dry shrubland.

References

  1. ↑ Geniez P, Miras JAM (2006). "Acanthodactylus bedriagai". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2008. International Union for Conservation of Nature. Retrieved 19 February 2009.
  2. ↑ Beolens, Bo; Watkins, Michael; Grayson, Michael (2011). The Eponym Dictionary of Reptiles. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. xiii + 296 pp. ISBN 978-1-4214-0135-5. (Acanthodactylus bedriagai, p. 21).

Further reading

  • Lataste F (1881). "Diagnoses de reptiles nouveaux, 5. Acanthodactylus Bedriagai, n. sp." Le Naturaliste 3 (45): 357-359. (Acanthodactylus bedriagai, new species). (in French).
  • Salvador, Alfredo (1982). "A revision of the lizards of the genus Acanthodactylus (Sauria: Lacertidae)". Bonner Zoologische Monographien (16): 167. (Acanthodactylus bedriagai, pp. 85–88, Figures 42-44, Map 17).


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