Acanthodactylus hardyi
Acanthodactylus hardyi, known commonly as Hardy's fringe-fingered lizard or the Nidua fringe-fingered lizard, is a species of lizard in the family Lacertidae. The species is endemic to Western Asia.
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Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Reptilia |
| Order: | Squamata |
| Family: | Lacertidae |
| Genus: | Acanthodactylus |
| Species: | A. hardyi |
| Binomial name | |
| Acanthodactylus hardyi G. Haas, 1957 | |
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Etymology
The specific name, hardyi, is in honor of British entomologist J.E. Hardy who collected the holotype.[2]
Geographic range
A. hardyi is found in Iraq, Jordan, Kuwait, and Saudi Arabia.[1]
References
- Acanthodactylus hardyi at the Reptarium.cz Reptile Database. Accessed 20 October 2015.
- 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 hardyi, p. 116).
Further reading
- Haas G (1957). "Some Amphibians and Reptiles from Arabia". Proceedings of the California Academy of Sciences, Fourth Series 29 (3): 47–86. (Acanthodactylus scutellatus hardyi, new subspecies, p. 72).
- Harris, David J.; Arnold, E. Nicholas (2000). "Elucidation of the relationships of spiny-footed lizards, Acanthodactylus ssp. (Reptilia: Lacertidae) using mitochondrial DNA sequence, with comments on their biogeography and evolution". Journal of Zoology 252 (3): 351–362. (Acanthodactylus hardyi, new status).
- Rifai, Lina; Modrý, David; Necas, Petr; Amr, Zuhair S. (2013). "The occurrence of Acanthodactylus hardyi Haas, 1957 in the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan with notes on its ecology". Zoology in the Middle East 288 (1): 33. (in English, with an abstract in German).
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