Acanthodactylus tristrami

Acanthodactylus tristrami, commonly called the Lebanon fringe-fingered lizard and Tristram's spiny-footed lizard, is a species of lizard in the family Lacertidae. The species is endemic to the Middle East.

Lebanon fringe-fingered lizard
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Reptilia
Order: Squamata
Family: Lacertidae
Genus: Acanthodactylus
Species:
A. tristrami
Binomial name
Acanthodactylus tristrami
(Günther, 1864)
Synonyms[2]
  • Zootoca tristrami
    Günther, 1864
  • Acanthodactylus dorsalis
    W. Peters, 1869
  • Lacerta tristrami
    — Boettger, 1880
  • Acanthodactylus tristrami
    — Boulenger, 1881

Etymology

The specific name, tristrami, is in honor of Canon Henry Baker Tristram, who was an English naturalist and Anglican priest.[3]

Geographic range

A. tristrami is found in Iraq, Jordan, Lebanon, and Syria[2]

Habitat

The preferred habitat of A. tristrami is shrubland.[1]

Reproduction

References
  1. Disi, Ahmad Mohammed Mousa; Hraoui-Bloquet, Souad; Sadek, Riyad; Sindaco, Roberto (2009). "Acanthodactylus tristrami ". The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2009: e.T164627A5913029. https://doi.org/10.2305/IUCN.UK.2009.RLTS.T164627A5913029.en. Downloaded on 18 April 2019.
  2. Acanthodactylus tristrami at the Reptarium.cz Reptile Database. Accessed 20 October 2015.
  3. 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 tristrami, p. 268).

Further reading
  • Boulenger GA (1881). "On the Lizards of the Genera Lacerta and Acanthodactylus ". Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1881: 739-747 + Plates LXIII-LXIV. (Acanthodactylus tristrami, new combination, p. 741 + Plate LXIII, figures 1a-1d).
  • Boulenger GA (1887). Catalogue of the Lizards in the British Museum (Natural History). Second Editionn. Volume III. Lacertidæ ...London: Trustees of the British Museum (Natural History). (Taylor and Francis, printers). xii + 575 pp. + Plates I-XL. (Acanthodactylus tristrami, pp. 68-69).
  • Günther A (1864). "Report on a Collection of Reptiles and Fishes from Palestine". Proc. Zool. Soc. London 1864: 488–493. (Zootoca tristrami, new species, p. 491).
  • Disi, Ahmad M.; Modrý, David; Nečas, Petr; Rifai, Lina (2001). Amphibians and Reptiles of the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan. Frankfurt am Main, Germany: Chimaira. 408 pp. ISBN 978-3930612123.
  • Salvador, Alfredo (1982). "A revision of the lizards of the genus Acanthodactylus (Sauria: Lacertidae)". Bonner Zoologische Monographien (16): 1–167. (Acanthodactylus tristrami, pp. 101–106, Figures 57–59, Map 20b). (in English, with an abstract in German).
  • Sindaco, Roberto; Jeremčenko, Valery K. (2008). The Reptiles of the Western Palearctic: 1. Annotated Checklist and Distributional Atlas of the Turtles, Crocodiles, Amphisbaenians and Lizards of Europe, North Africa, Middle East and Central Asia. (Monographs of the Societas Herpetologica Italica). Latina, Italy: Edizioni Belvedere. 580 pp. ISBN 978-88-89504-14-7.


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