Bedriaga's fringe-fingered lizard
| Bedriaga's fringe-fingered lizard | |
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Reptilia |
| Order: | Squamata |
| Family: | Lacertidae |
| Genus: | Acanthodactylus |
| Species: | A. bedriagai
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| Binomial name | |
| Acanthodactylus bedriagai Lataste, 1881
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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
- ^ Template:IUCN2008
- ^ 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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