Bedriaga's fringe-fingered lizard

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Bedriaga's fringe-fingered lizard
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Reptilia
Order: Squamata
Family: Lacertidae
Genus: Acanthodactylus
Species:
A. bedriagai
Binomial name
Acanthodactylus bedriagai
Lataste, 1881

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

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Etymology

Both the specific name, bedriagai, and the common name are in honor of Russian herpetologist Jacques von Bedriaga. [2]

Geographic range

A. bedriagai is native to northern Algeria, where it is found on the Hauts Plateaux and in the Aureus-Kabili Mountains. [1]

Habitat

The natural habitat of A. bedriagai is subtropical or tropical dry shrubland, at altitudes up to 1,000 m (3,300 ft). [1]

Reproduction

Acanthodactylus bedriagai is oviparous. [3]

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References

  1. 1 2 3 Geniez, P.; Miras, J.A.M. (2006). "Acanthodactylus bedriagai". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species . 2006: e.T61453A12488579. doi: 10.2305/IUCN.UK.2006.RLTS.T61453A12488579.en . Retrieved 11 November 2021.
  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.

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