Bedriaga's fringe-fingered lizard

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

Bedriaga's fringe-fingered lizard

Near Threatened  (IUCN 3.1)[1]
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Reptilia
Order: Squamata
Family: Lacertidae
Genus: Acanthodactylus
Species:
A. bedriagai
Binomial name
Acanthodactylus bedriagai
Lataste, 1881

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.[1]

Reproduction

Acanthodactylus bedriagai is oviparous.[3]

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References
  1. Geniez P, Miras JAM (2006). "Acanthodactylus bedriagai". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2006. Retrieved 19 February 2009.CS1 maint: uses authors parameter (link) CS1 maint: ref=harv (link)
  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 bedriagai, p. 21).
  3. Species Acanthodactylus bedriagai at The Reptile Database . www.reptile-database.org.

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). (in English, with an abstract in German).


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