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Bedriaga's fringe-fingered lizard

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Bedriaga's fringe-fingered lizard
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
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 lizard 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.[1]

Reproduction

Acanthodactylus bedriagai is oviparous.[3]

References

  1. ^ a b "Acanthodactylus bedriagai". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2006. 2006. Retrieved 19 February 2009. {{cite journal}}: Cite uses deprecated parameter |authors= (help); Invalid |ref=harv (help)
  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).
  3. ^ Species Acanthodactylus bedriagai at The Reptile Database . www.reptile-database.org.

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). (in English, with an abstract in German).