Acanthodactylus busacki

Acanthodactylus busacki, called commonly Busack's fringe-fingered lizard, is a species of lizard in the family Lacertidae. The species is endemic to northwestern Africa.

Busack's fringe-fingered lizard

Least Concern  (IUCN 3.1)[1]
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Reptilia
Order: Squamata
Family: Lacertidae
Genus: Acanthodactylus
Species:
A. busacki
Binomial name
Acanthodactylus busacki
Salvador, 1982

Etymology

The specific name, busacki, is in honor of American herpetologist Stephen D. Busack (born 1944).[2]

Geographic range

A. busacki is found in Morocco and Western Sahara.[1][3]

Description

A. busacki may attain a maximum snout-to-vent length (SVL) of 7.3 cm (2.9 in). Adult males are reddish on the posterior throat, neck, anterior body and belly, and forelimbs.[3]

Reproduction

A. busacki is oviparous.[3]

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gollark: Probably two.
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gollark: Maybe even four.
gollark: You can get far more than that.

References
  1. Geniez P, Mateo Miras JA, Joger U, Pleguezuelos J, Slimani T, El Mouden EH (2010). "Acanthodactylus busacki ". The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2010: e.T178569A7572735. https://doi.org/10.2305/IUCN.UK.2010-4.RLTS.T178569A7572735.en. Downloaded on 16 April 2019.
  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 busacki, p. 44).
  3. Acanthodactylus busacki at the Reptarium.cz Reptile Database. Accessed 20 October 2015.

Further reading
  • Salvador, Alfredo (1982). "A revision of the lizards of the genus Acanthodactylus (Sauria: Lacertidae)". Bonner Zoologische Monographien (16): 1–167. (Acanthodactylus busacki, new species, pp. 88–92, Map 18, Figures 45-49). (in English, with an abstract in German).
  • Schlüter U (2009). "Fransenfingereidechsen (Acanthodactylus) in der Natur und im Terrarium. Teil 4. Die Acanthodactylus pardalis-Gruppe ". Reptilia (Münster) 14 (76): 52–60. (in German).
  • Tamar, Karin; Geniez, Philippe; Brito, José C., Crochet, Pierre-André (2017). "Systematic revision of Acanthodactylus busacki (Squamata: Lacertidae) with a description of a new species from Morocco". Zootaxa 4276 (3): 357–386.
  • Trape, Jean-François; Trape, Sébastien; Chirio, Laurent (2012). Lézards, crocodiles et tortues d'Afrique occidentale et du Sahara Paris: IRD Orstom. 503 pp. ISBN 978-2709917261. (in French).



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