Acanthodactylus longipes

Acanthodactylus longipes, commonly called the long fringe-fingered lizard, is a species of lizard in the family Lacertidae. The species is endemic to northwestern Africa.

Acanthodactylus longipes
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Reptilia
Order:	Squamata
Family:	Lacertidae
Genus:	Acanthodactylus
Species:	A. longipes
Binomial name
Acanthodactylus longipes Boulenger, 1918
Synonyms[1]
Acanthodactylus scutellatus Var. longipes Boulenger, 1918 Acanthodactylus longipes — Bons & Girot, 1962 Acanthodactylus longipes panousei Bons & Girot, 1964 Acanthodactylus longipes — Salvador, 1982

Geographic range

A. longipes is found in Algeria, Chad, Egypt, Libya, Mali, Mauritania, Morocco, Niger, Tunisia, and Western Sahara.[1]

Reproduction

A. longipes is oviparous.[1]

References

1. Acanthodactylus longipes at the Reptarium.cz Reptile Database. Accessed 20 October 2015.

Further reading

• Boulenger GA (1918). "Sur les lézards du genre Acanthodactylus Wiegm." Bulletin de la Société Zoologique de France 43: 143–155. (Acanthodactylus scutellatus Var. longipes, new variety, p. 154). (in French).
• Padial JM (2006). "Commented distributional list of the reptiles of Mauritania (West Africa)". Graellsia 62 (2): 159–178.
• Salvador, Alfredo (1982). "A revision of the lizards of the genus Acanthodactylus (Sauria: Lacertidae)". Bonner Zoologische Monographien (16): 1–167. (Acanthodactylus longipes, pp. 132–136, Figures 86–88, Map 26). (in English, with an abstract in German).