Bedriaga's fringe-fingered lizard
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Acanthodactylus bedriagai Lataste, 1881
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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
- ^ Template:IUCN2008
- ^ 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).