Overview
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Critically Endangered |
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Common Names
Common Names in English:
Doumergue's Fringe-Fingered Lizard
Description
Habitat
Ecology: This species is found in open stony and flat sandy places (e.g.
, not sand
dunes). The females lay
a clutch
of around eight eggs
.[1]
List of Habitats
:3.5Shrubland - Subtropical/Tropical Dry
8.1Desert - Hot
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
()
- Subfamily:
Lacertinae
()
- Genus:
Acanthodactylus
()
- (Schinz, 1833)
- Specific name:
spinicauda
- Doumergue
- Scientific name: - Acanthodactylus spinicauda Doumergue
- Specific name:
spinicauda
- Doumergue
- Genus:
Acanthodactylus
(
- Subfamily:
Lacertinae
(
- 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
(
Unambiguous Synonyms
- Acanthodactylus pardalis var. spinicauda Doumergue 1901: 162
- Acanthodactylus spinicauda— Harris & Arnold 2000
- Acanthodactylus spinicauda — Salvador 1982: 97
- Acanthodactylus spinicauda — Schleich, KÄstle & Kabisch 1996: 394
Notes
Name Status: Accepted Name . Latest taxonomic scrutiny: Uetz P.
Similar Species
Members of the genus Acanthodactylus
ZipcodeZoo has pages for 84 species and subspecies 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)
More Info
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Further Reading
- Doumergue (1901) Essai sur la faune erpétologique de l'Oranie.
- Kuyl et al. (2002) Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 22: 174-183
- Salvador (1982) BONNER ZOOLOGISCHE MONOGRAPHIEN (No. 16) 1982: 1-167
- Salvador, A. 1982. A revision of the lizards of the genus Acanthodactylus (Sauria: Lacertidae). Bonner Zoologische Monographien (No. 16) 1982: 1–167
- Schleich et al. (1996) Amph. Rept. North Africa.
- Schleich, H H., Kästle, W. and Kabisch, K. 1996. Amphibians and Reptiles of North Africa. Koeltz Scientific Books, Koenigstein.
Notes
Contributors
- Bisby, F.A., Y.R. Roskov, M.A. Ruggiero, T.M. Orrell, L.E. Paglinawan, P.W. Brewer, N. Bailly, J. van Hertum, eds (2007). Species 2000 & ITIS Catalogue of Life: 2007 Annual Checklist. Species 2000: Reading, U.K.
- Brands, S.J. (comp.) 1989-2006. Systema Naturae 2000. The Taxonomicon. Universal Taxonomic Services, Amsterdam, The Netherlands. Accessed October 31, 2006.
- Joger, U., Slimani, T., El Mouden, H. & Geniez, P. 2006. In IUCN 2008. 2008 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. IUCNRedList.org. Downloaded July 19, 2008.
- Uetz, Peter. The Reptile Database
Identifiers
- Biodiversity Heritage Library NamebankID: 2535759
- Catalogue of Life Accepted Name Code: Rep-303
- IUCN ID: 61463
- Zipcode Zoo Species Identifier: 627171
Footnotes
- Joger, U., Slimani, T., El Mouden, H. & Geniez, P. 2006. In IUCN 2008. 2008 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. IUCNRedList.org. Downloaded July 19, 2008. [back]
