Acanthodactylus busacki

Busack's fringe-fingered lizard
Conservation status
Least Concern  (IUCN 3.1) [1]
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Reptilia
Order:	Squamata
Suborder:	Lacertoidea
Family:	Lacertidae
Genus:	Acanthodactylus
Species:	A. busacki
Binomial name
Acanthodactylus busacki Salvador, 1982

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.

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]}

Habitat

The preferred natural habitats of A. busacki are desert and shrubland, at altitudes from sea level to 580 m (1,900 ft). ^[1]

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]

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". Zootaxa4276 (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).