| The
genus Acanthodactylus is a genus of slender
bodied fast running lacertid lizards distributed over
most of northern Africa and the Mittleeast region.

Acanthodactylus
arabicus Boulenger, 1918
Distribution:
Yemen. |
Acanthodactylus
aureus Günther, 1903
Distribution:
Mauritania,
Morocco,
Senegal
and Western
Sahara. |
Acanthodactylus
bedriagai Lataste, 1881
Distribution:
Algeria.
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Acanthodactylus
beershebensis Moravec, Din, Seligmann, Sivan
& Werner, 1999
Distribution:
Israel. |
Acanthodactylus
blanci Doumergue, 1901
Distribution:
Algeria
and Tunisia.
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Acanthodactylus
blanfordii Boulenger, 1918
Distribution:
Afghanistan, India,
Iran, Oman
and Pakistan.
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Acanthodactylus
boskianus (Daudin, 1802)
boskianus
(Daudin, 1802)
asper (Audouin,
1829)
euphraticus Boulenger, 1919
Distribution:
Algeria,
Egypt, Eritrea,
Ethiopia,
Iran (asper),
Iraq, Israel,
Jordan
(asper), Libya,
Mali, Mauritania,
Morocco
(asper), Niger,
Nigeria,
Oman, Saudi
Arabia, Sudan,
Syria, Tunisia
(asper), Turkey (euphraticus),
United Arab Emirates and Western
Sahara (asper). |
Acanthodactylus
boueti Chabanaud, 1917
Distribution:
Benin, Ghana
and Nigeria.
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Acanthodactylus
busacki Salvador, 1982
Distribution:
Morocco.
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Acanthodactylus
cantoris Günther, 1864
Distribution:
Afghanistan, India,
Jordan
and Pakistan.
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Acanthodactylus
dumerili Milne-Edwards, 1829
dumerili
Milne-Edwards, 1829
exiguus
Lataste, 1885
Distribution:
Algeria,
Mali, Mauritania,
Morocco,
Senegal
and Western
Sahara (dumerili, exiguus). |
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Acanthodactylus
erythrurus (Schinz, 1833)
erythrurus
(Schinz,
1833)
atlanticus
Boulenger, 1918
belli
Gray, 1845
Distribution:
Algeria
(belli), Morocco
(belli, erythrurus), Portugal
(erythrurus) and Spain. |
Acanthodactylus
felicis Arnold, 1980
Distribution:
Oman and Yemen.
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Acanthodactylus
gongrorhynchatus Leviton & Anderson,
1967
Distribution:
Saudi
Arabia and United Arab Emirates. |
Acanthodactylus
grandis Boulenger, 1909
Distribution:
Iran, Iraq,
Jordan,
Lebanon,
Saudi
Arabia and Syria.
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Acanthodactylus
guineensis (Boulenger, 1887)
Distribution:
Burkina
Faso, Cameroon,
Ghana, Mali,
Niger and
Nigeria.
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Acanthodactylus
haasi Leviton & Anderson, 1967
Distribution:
Oman and Saudi
Arabia. |
Acanthodactylus
harranensis Baran, 2001
Distribution:
Turkey. |
Acanthodactylus
lineomaculatus Duméril & Bibron,
1839
Distribution:
Morocco.
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Acanthodactylus
longipes Boulenger, 1918
Distribution:
Algeria,
Chad, Libya,
Mali, Mauritania,
Morocco,
Niger and
Tunisia.
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Acanthodactylus
maculatus (Gray, 1838)
Distribution:
Algeria,
Libya, Morocco
and Tunisia.
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Acanthodactylus
masirae Arnold, 1980
Distribution:
Oman. |
Acanthodactylus
micropholis Blanford, 1874
Distribution:
Iran and
Pakistan.
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Acanthodactylus
nilsoni Rastegar-Pouyani, 1998
Distribution:
Iran. |
Acanthodactylus
opheodurus Arnold, 1980
Distribution:
Iraq, Israel,
Jordan,
Kuwait, Oman, Saudi
Arabia, Syria,
United Arab Emirates and Yemen.
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Acanthodactylus
orientalis Angel, 1936
Distribution:
Iraq and
Syria. |
Acanthodactylus
pardalis (Lichtenstein, 1823)
Distribution:
Algeria,
Egypt, Israel,
Jordan
and Libya.
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Acanthodactylus
robustus Werner, 1929
Distribution:
Iraq, Jordan,
Saudi
Arabia and Syria.
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Acanthodactylus
savignyi (Audouin, 1809)
Distribution:
Algeria.
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Acanthodactylus
schmidti Haas, 1957
Distribution:
Iran, Iraq,
Jordan,
Kuwait, Saudi
Arabia and United Arab Emirates. |
Acanthodactylus
schreiberi Boulenger, 1878
schreiberi
Boulenger,
1878
syriacus
Boettger, 1878
Distribution:
Cyprus (schreiberi), Israel (syriacus),
Lebanon
(syriacus), Syria
(syriacus), Turkey (schreiberi).
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Acanthodactylus
scutellatus (Audouin, 1809)
scutellatus
(Audouin,
1809)
hardyi
Haas, 1957
Distribution:
Algeria
(scutellatus), Chad
(scutellatus), Egypt
(scutellatus), Iraq
(hardyi), Israel (scutellatus),
Kuwait (hardyi), Libya
(scutellatus), Mali
(scutellatus), Niger
(scutellatus), Saudi
Arabia (hardyi), Sudan
(scutellatus) and Tunisia
(scutellatus). |
Acanthodactylus
spinicauda Doumergue, 1901
Distribution:
Algeria.
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Acanthodactylus
taghitensis Geniez & Foucart, 1995
Distribution:
Algeria.
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Acanthodactylus
tilburyi Arnold, 1980
Distribution:
Jordan
and Saudi
Arabia. |
Acanthodactylus
tristrami (Günther, 1864)
Distribution:
Iraq, Jordan,
Lebanon
and Syria.
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Acanthodactylus
yemenicus Salvador, 1982
Distribution:
Yemen. |
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| Literature |
| Bischoff,
W. 1990. Übersicht der Arten und Unterarten der Familie
Lacertidae. 1. Die Gattungen Acanthodactylus, Adolfus,
Algyroides und Australolacerta. Die Eidechse,
(1): 18-23. |
| Bischoff,
W. 1995. Übersicht der Arten und Unterarten der Familie
Lacertidae. 2. Nachtrag. Die Eidechse, 6(14): 24-27. |
| Bischoff,
W. 1995. Übersicht der Arten und Unterarten der Familie
Lacertidae. 3. Nachtrag. Die Eidechse, 6(16): 15-20. |
| Bischoff,
W. 1998. Übersicht der Arten und Unterarten der Familie
Lacertidae. 5. Nachtrag. Die Eidechse, 9(3): 91-99. |
| Bischoff,
W. & J.F. Schmidtler. 1994. Ergebnisse zweier Lacertiden-Exkursionen
nach Syrien. Die Eidechse, 5(14): 4-22. |
| Blanc,
C.P. 1980. Studies on the Acanthodactylus of
Tunisia IV. Geographic Distribution and Habitats. J. Herpetol.,
14(4): 391-398. |
| Bosch,
H.A.J. in den. 1997. Kurze Freilandbeobachtungen an den
Petra-Eidechsen. Die Eidechse, 8(1): 25-29. |
| Boulenger,
G.A. 1881. On the lizards of the genera Lacerta
and Acanthodactylus. Proc. Zool. Soc. London,
5(14): 739-747. |
| Boulenger,
G.A. 1887. Descriptions of new Reptiles and Batrachians
in the British Museum (Natural History).-Part III. Ann.
Mag. Nat. Hist., (5)20(115): 50-53. |
| Busack,
S.D. & L.L. Klosterman. 1987. Reproduction in a spanish
population of Acanthodactylus erythrurus (Reptilia:
Lacertilia: Lacertidae). Ann. Carnegie Mus., 56(3): 97-102. |
Castilla, A.M., L.J. Barbadillon & D. Bauwens. 1992.
Annual variation in reproductive traits in the lizard
Acanthodactylus erythrurus. Can. J. Zool., 70:
395-402. |
| Corti,
C., W. Bischoff & W. Böhme. 1999. Die Lacertiden
der Mittelmeer-Inseln - eine erste Übersicht. Die
Eidechse, 10(2): 41-58. |
| Cunningham,
P.L. 2001. Notes on some aspects of the ecology of Acanthodactylus
opheodurus Arnold, 1980, from the United Arab Emirates
(Squamata: Sauria: Lacertidae). Herpetozoa, 14(1/2): 15-20. |
| Franke,
E. 1995. Beobachtunen am Europäischen Fransenfinger
in Südspanien. Die Eidechse, 6(14): 4-5. |
| Franzen,
M. 1990. Die Eidechsenfauna (Lacertidae) der Türkei.
Die Eidechse, (1): 3-9. |
| Franzen,
M. 1998. Erstnachweis von Acanthodactylus schreiberi
schreiberi Boulenger, 1879 für die Türkei
(Squamata: Sauria: Lacertidae). Herpetozoa, 11(1/2): 27-36. |
| Franzen,
M. 2000. Die Eidechsenfauna (Lacertidae) der Türkei
- Ergänzungen seit 1990. Die Eidechse, 11(2): 65-73. |
| Kroniger,
M. 1995. Zur Haltung von Acanthodactylus scutellatus
(Audouin, 1809). Die Eidechse, 6(14): 1-3. |
| Leviton,
A.E., S.C. Anderson, K. Adler & S.A. Minton. 1992.
Handbook to Middle East Amphibians and Reptiles. SSAR
Contrib. Herpetol. 8, 252 pp. |
| Meinig,
H. 1994. Beobachtungen an zwei nur wenig bekannten Fransenfingerarten
im Südosten des Oman: Acanthodactylus masirae
Arnold, 1980 und Acanthodactylus schmidti Haas,
1957 |
| Müller,
J. 1995. Eidechsenbeobachtungen in Jordanien. Die Eidechse,
6(14):17-19. |
| Neumann,
O. 1905. Über nordost-afrikanische und arabische
Kriechtiere. Im Anschluß an Gustav Tornier’s
vorangehende Abhandlung. Zool. Jahrb. Syst., 22(4): 389-404. |
| Peters,
W.C.H. 1869. Über neue Gattungen und Arten von Eidechsen.
Mber. Königl. Akad. Wiss. Berlin, 1869: 57-66. |
| Rastegar-Pouyani,
N. 1998. A New Species of Acanthodactylus (Sauria:
Lacertidae) from Qasr-E-Shirin, Kermanshah Province, Western
Iran. Proc. Calif. Acad. Sci., 50(9): 257-265. |
Rastegar-Pouyani, N. 1999(2000). First record of the lacertid
Acanthodactylus boskianus (Sauria: Lacertidae)
for Iran. Asiat. Herpetol. Res., 8:85-89 |
| Salvador,
A. 1981. Acanthodactylus erythrurus (Schinz 1833)
– Europäischer Fransenfinger. Pp. 376-388.
In: Böhme, W. (Hrgs.). Handbuch der Reptilien und
Amphibien Europas. Band 1. Echsen (Sauria) 1. AULA-Verlag,
Wiesbaden, 520 pp. |
| Salvador,
A. 1982. A Revision of the Lizards of the Genus Acanthodactylus
(Sauria: Lacertidae). Bonn. Zool. Monogr., 16: 1-167. |
| Sautereu,
L. 1981. Opdræt af frynsefingerfirbenet (Acanthodactylus
e. erythrurus). NHF, 24(5): 163-168. |
| Schlüter,
U. 2000. Ägyptische Dünenfransenfinger. DATZ,
53(2): 30-31. |
| Schlüter,
U. 2000. Zur Kenntnis von Blancs Fransenfinger (Acanthodactylus
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| Schlüter,
U. 2002. Zur Kenntnis von Busacks Fransenfinger (Acanthodactylus
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| Tornier,
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