Acanthodactylus longipes

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.

Acanthodactylus longipes
Scientific classification
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

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. 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).


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