Acanthodactylus guineensis
Appearance
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Scientific classification ![]() | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Reptilia |
Order: | Squamata |
Family: | Lacertidae |
Genus: | Acanthodactylus |
Species: | A. guineensis
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Binomial name | |
Acanthodactylus guineensis (Boulenger, 1887)
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Acanthodactylus guineensis, commonly called the Guinea fringe-fingered lizard, is a species of lizard in the family Lacertidae. The species is endemic to West Africa and Central Africa.
Geographic range
[edit]A. guineensis is found in Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Ghana, Mali, Niger, and Nigeria.[2]
Reproduction
[edit]A. guineensis is oviparous.[2]
References
[edit]- ^ Chirio, L. (2021). "Acanthodactylus guineensis". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2021: e.T13151869A13151872. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2021-2.RLTS.T13151869A13151872.en. Retrieved 18 October 2021.
- ^ a b c Acanthodactylus guineensis at the Reptarium.cz Reptile Database. Accessed 20 October 2015.
Further reading
[edit]- Boulenger GA (1887). "Descriptions of new Reptiles and Batrachians in the British Museum (Natural History).—Part III". Annals and Magazine of Natural History, Fifth Series 20: 50–53. (Eremias guineensis, new species, p. 51).
- Salvador, Alfredo (1982). "A revision of the lizards of the genus Acanthodactylus (Sauria: Lacertidae)". Bonner Zoologische Monographien (16): 1–167. (Acanthodactylus guineensis, new combination, pp. 77–80, Figures 36–38, Map 15). (in English, with an abstract in German).
- Trape, Jean-François; Trape, Sébastien; Chirio, Laurent (2012). Lézards, crocodiles et tortues d'Afrique occidentale et du Sahara. Paris: IRD Orstom. 503 pp. ISBN 978-2709917261. (in French).
Categories:
- IUCN Red List least concern species
- Acanthodactylus
- Lacertid lizards of Africa
- Fauna of Burkina Faso
- Reptiles of Cameroon
- Reptiles of the Central African Republic
- Fauna of Ghana
- Fauna of Mali
- Reptiles of West Africa
- Reptiles of Nigeria
- Reptiles described in 1887
- Taxa named by George Albert Boulenger
- Lacertidae stubs