Overview
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Critically Endangered |
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Description
Habitat
Ecology: It lives in the dune systems with shrub
and small dry river
beds
. The habitat
of the species includes the only area of peat bog
in Tunisia. The female lays
a clutch
of four to five eggs
.[1]
List of Habitats:3.8Shrubland - Mediterranean-type Shrubby Vegetation
5.2Wetlands (inland) - Seasonal/Intermittent/Irregular Rivers/Streams/Creeks
5.4Wetlands (inland) - Bogs, Marshes, Swamps
, Fens
, Peatlands
13.3Marine Coastal/Supratidal - Coastal Sand
Dunes
Taxonomy
- Domain:
Eukaryota
(
)
- Whittaker & Margulis,1978
- eukaryotes
- Kingdom:
Animalia
()
- Linnaeus, 1758
- animals
- Subkingdom:
Bilateria
()
- (Hatschek, 1888) Cavalier-Smith, 1983
- Branch:
Deuterostomia
()
- Grobben, 1908
- Infrakingdom:
Chordonia
()
- (Haeckel, 1874) Cavalier-Smith, 1998
- Phylum:
Chordata
()
- Bateson, 1885
- Chordates
- Subphylum:
Vertebrata
()
- Cuvier, 1812
- Vertebrates
- Infraphylum:
Gnathostomata
()
- Auct.
- Jawed Vertebrates
- Superclass:
Tetrapoda
()
- Goodrich, 1930
- Class:
Reptilia
()
- Reptiles
- Subclass:
Diapsida
()
- Infraclass:
Lepidosauromorpha
()
- Superorder:
Lepidosauria
()
-
- Order:
Squamata
()
- Suborder:
Lacertilia
()
- Infraorder:
Scincomorpha
()
- Family:
Lacertidae
()
- Genus:
Acanthodactylus
()
- Specific name:
mechriguensis
- Scientific name: - Acanthodactylus mechriguensis Nouira & Blanc, 1999
- Specific name:
mechriguensis
- Genus:
Acanthodactylus
(
- Family:
Lacertidae
(
- Infraorder:
Scincomorpha
(
- Suborder:
Lacertilia
(
- Order:
Squamata
(
- Superorder:
Lepidosauria
(
- Infraclass:
Lepidosauromorpha
(
- Subclass:
Diapsida
(
- Class:
Reptilia
(
- Superclass:
Tetrapoda
(
- Infraphylum:
Gnathostomata
(
- Subphylum:
Vertebrata
(
- Phylum:
Chordata
(
- Infrakingdom:
Chordonia
(
- Branch:
Deuterostomia
(
- Subkingdom:
Bilateria
(
- Kingdom:
Animalia
(
Similar Species
Members of the genus Acanthodactylus
There are approximately 84 species in this genus:
A. (Latastia) · A. aegyptius · A. ahmaddisii · A. arabicus (Arabian Fringe-Fingered Lizard) · A. aureus (Golden Fringe-Fingered Lizard) · A. bedriagai (Bedriaga's Fringe-Fingered Lizard) · A. beershebensis · A. blanci (White Fringe-Fingered Lizard) · A. blandfordi · A. blanfordi · A. blanfordii (Blanford's Fringe-Fingered Lizard) · A. boskianus (Bosk's Fringe-Fingered Lizard) · A. boskianus asper · A. boskianus boskianus · A. boskianus euphraticus · A. boskianus var. asper · A. boskianus var. syriacus · A. boskianus var. syriacus Boettger, 1879 · A. boueti (Chabanaud's Fringe-Fingered Lizard) · A. busacki (Busack's Fringe-Fingered Lizard) · A. cantoris (Indian Fringe-Fingered Lizard) · A. cantoris arabicus · A. cantoris cantoris · A. cantoris schmidti · A. cantoris var. arabicus · A. dorsalis · A. dumerilii (Duméril's Fringe-Fingered Lizard) · A. dumerilii (Duméril's Fringe-Fingered Lizard) · A. dumerilii dumerilii · A. dumerilii exiguus · A. senegalensis (Duméril's Fringe-Fingered Lizard) · A. dunienlii · A. erythrums · A. erythrurus (Roodstaartfransjenhagedis) · A. erythrurus atlanticus · A. erythrurus belli · A. erythrurus erythrurus (Fringe-Fingered Lizard) · A. erythrurus lineomaculatus · A. felicis (Cat Fringe-Fingered Lizard) · A. haasi · A. gongrorhynchatus · A. grandis (Giant Fringe-Fingered Lizard) · A. guineensis (Guinea Fringe-Fingered Lizard) · A. haasi (Haas' Fringe-Fingered Lizard) · A. harranensis · A. inornatus · A. inornatus aureus · A. lineomaculatus · A. longipes (Long Fringe-Fingered Lizard) · A. longipes panousei · A. maculatus (Spotted Fringe-Fingered Lizard) · A. masirae (Masira Fringe-Fingered Lizard) · A. mechriguensis · A. micropholis (Yellowtail Fringe-Fingered Lizard) · A. mucronatus · A. nilsoni · A. opheodurus (Arnold's Fringe-Fingered Lizard) · A. orientalis · A. pardalis (Egyptian Fringe-Fingered Lizard) · A. robustus (Robust Fringe-Fingered Lizard) · A. savignyi (Savigny's Fringe-Fingered Lizard) · A. schmidti (Schmidt's Fringe-Fingered Lizard) · A. schreiberi (Schreiber's Fringe-Fingered Lizard) · A. schreiberi schreiberi · A. schreiberi syriacus · A. schreibersi · A. scintellatus · A. scutellatus (Nidua Fringe-Fingered Lizard) · A. scutellatus audouini · A. scutellatus aureus · A. scutellatus hardyi · A. scutellatus scutellatus (Fringe-Toed Lizard) · A. scuttelatus · A. senegalensis · A. spinicauda (Doumergue's Fringe-Fingered Lizard) · A. syriacus · A. taghitensis · A. tilburyi (Tilbury's Fringe-Fingered Lizard) · A. tristrami (Lebanon Fringe-Fingered Lizard) · A. tristrami iracensis · A. tristrami · A. tristrami tristrami · A. vulgaris · A. yemenicus (Yemen Fringe-Fingered Lizard)
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Further Reading
- Nouira, S. and Blanc, C.P. 1999. Description d'une nouvelle espèce d'acanthodactyle en Tunisie: Acanthodactylus mechriguensis n. sp. (Sauria, Reptilia) Atti. Mem. Ente Fauna Siciliana 5(1997-1998): 103–110
- Nouria, S. and Blanc, C.P. 2003. Distribution spatiale des Lacertidés (Sauria, Reptilia) en Tunisie; caractéristiques des biotopes et rôle des facteurs écologiques Ecologia mediterranea 29(1): 71–86
Notes
Contributors
- Nouira, S. & Geniez, P. 2006. In IUCN 2008. 2008 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. IUCNRedList.org. Downloaded July 19, 2008.
Identifiers
- IUCN ID: 61459
- Zipcode Zoo Species Identifier: 3963501
Footnotes
- Nouira, S. & Geniez, P. 2006. In IUCN 2008. 2008 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. IUCNRedList.org. Downloaded July 19, 2008. [back]
