Acanthodactylus longipes

Acanthodactylus longipes
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. longipes
Binomial name
Acanthodactylus longipes Boulenger, 1918
Synonyms [2]
Acanthodactylus scutellatus Var. longipes Boulenger, 1918 Acanthodactylus longipes — Bons & Girot, 1962 Acanthodactylus longipes panousei Bons & Girot, 1964 Acanthodactylus longipes — Salvador, 1982

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.

Geographic range

A. longipes is found in Algeria, Chad, Egypt, Libya, Mali, Mauritania, Morocco, Niger, Tunisia, and Western Sahara. ^[2]

Reproduction

A. longipes is oviparous. ^[2]

References

1. Bouazza, A.; Brito, J.C.; Trape, J.-F.; Baha El Din, S.; Bauer, A.M.; Crochet, P.-A. (2025). "Acanthodactylus longipes". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species . 2025 e.T197435A247414597. Retrieved 28 October 2025.
2. 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 France43: 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)". Graellsia62 (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).