Acanthodactylus haasi

Acanthodactylus haasi, also known commonly as Haas' fringe-fingered lizard or Haas's fringe-toed lizard, is a species of lizard in the family Lacertidae. The species is endemic to the Arabian Peninsula.

Acanthodactylus haasi
Conservation status
Least Concern  (IUCN 3.1)[1]
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Reptilia
Order:	Squamata
Family:	Lacertidae
Genus:	Acanthodactylus
Species:	A. haasi
Binomial name
Acanthodactylus haasi Leviton & S.C. Anderson, 1967

Etymology

The specific name, haasi, is in honor of Austrian-born Israeli herpetologist Georg Haas.[2]

Geographic range

A. haasi is found in Oman, Saudi Arabia, and United Arab Emirates.[3]

Habitat

The preferred habitats of A. haasi are desert and shrubland.[1]

Reproduction

A. haasi is oviparous.[4]

References

1. Anderson S, Al Johany AMH, Els J (2012). "Acanthodactylus haasi ". The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2012: e.T178437A1534508. https://doi.org/10.2305/IUCN.UK.2012.RLTS.T178437A1534508.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 haasi, p. 113).
3. Acanthodactylus haasi at the Reptarium.cz Reptile Database. Accessed 20 October 2015.
4. Species Acanthodactylus haasi at The Reptile Database . www.reptile-database.org.

Further reading

• Leviton, Alan E.; Anderson, Steven C. (1967). "Survey of the reptiles of the Sheikhdom of Abu Dhabi, Arabian Peninsula. Part II. Systematic account of the collection of reptiles made in the Sheikhdom of Abu Dhabi by John Gasperetti". Proceedings of the California Academy of Sciences, Fourth Series 35: 157–192. (Acanthodactylus haasi, new species, pp. 177-178 + Figures 9B, 10B on pp. 174-175).
• Leviton, Alan E.; Anderson, Steven C.; Adler, Kraig; Minton, Sherman A. (1992). Handbook to Middle East Amphibians and Reptiles. (Contributions to Herpetology No. 8). Oxford, Ohio: Society for the Study of Amphibians and Reptiles (SSAR). 252 pp. ISBN 978-0916984236.
• Salvador, Alfredo (1982). "A revision of the lizards of the genus Acanthodactylus (Sauria: Lacertidae)". Bonner Zoologischen Monographien (16): 1–167. (Acanthodactylus haasi, pp. 139–143, Figures 92–94, Map 29). (in English, with an abstract in German).
• Sindaco, Roberto; Jeremčenko, Valery K. (2008). The Reptiles of the Western Palearctic: 1. Annotated Checklist and Distributional Atlas of the Turtles, Crocodiles, Amphisbaenians and Lizards of Europe, North Africa, Middle East and Central Asia. (Monographs of the Societas Herpetologica Italica). Latina, Italy: Edizioni Belvedere. 580 pp. ISBN 978-88-89504-14-7.