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Bedriaga's fringe-fingered lizard

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Bedriaga's fringe-fingered lizard
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A. bedriagai
Binomial name
Acanthodactylus bedriagai
Lataste, 1881

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

Etymology

This species is named for herpetologist Jacques von Bedriaga.[2]

Habitat

Its natural habitat is subtropical or tropical dry shrubland.

References

  1. ^ Template:IUCN2008
  2. ^ Beolens B, Watkins M, Grayson M. (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.
  • Salvador A. 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).