Acanthodactylus

For other taxa with the same name, see Acanthodactylus (disambiguation)

Taxonavigation

Taxonavigation: Lacertibaenia
Superregnum: Eukaryota Cladus: Unikonta Cladus: Opisthokonta Cladus: Holozoa Regnum: Animalia Subregnum: Eumetazoa Cladus: Bilateria Cladus: Nephrozoa Superphylum: Deuterostomia Phylum: Chordata Subphylum: Vertebrata Infraphylum: Gnathostomata Megaclassis: Osteichthyes Cladus: Sarcopterygii Cladus: Rhipidistia Cladus: Tetrapodomorpha Cladus: Eotetrapodiformes Cladus: Elpistostegalia Superclassis: Tetrapoda Cladus: Reptiliomorpha Cladus: Amniota Classis: Reptilia Cladus: Eureptilia Cladus: Romeriida Subclassis: Diapsida Cladus: Sauria Infraclassis: Lepidosauromorpha Superordo: Lepidosauria Ordo: Squamata Cladus: Unidentata Episquamata Subordo: Lacertoidea Infraordo: Lacertibaenia

Familia: Lacertidae
Subfamilia: Lacertinae
Genus: Acanthodactylus
Species (45): A. aegyptius – A. ahmaddisii – A. arabicus – A. aureus – A. bedriagai – A. beershebensis – A. blanci – A. blanfordii – A. boskianus – A. boueti – A. busacki – A. cantoris – A. dumerilii – A. erythrurus – A. felicis – A. gongrorhynchatus – A. grandis – A. guineensis – A. haasi – A. hardyi – A. harranensis – A. ilgazi – A. khamirensis – A. lacrymae – A. longipes – A. maculatus – A. margaritae – A. masirae – A. micropholis – A. montanus – A. nilsoni – A. opheodurus – A. orientalis – A. pardalis – A. robustus – A. savignyi – A. schmidti – A. schreiberi – A. scutellatus – A. spinicauda – A. taghitensis – A. tilburyi – A. tristrami – A. yemenicus – A. zagrosicus

Name

Acanthodactylus Fitzinger in Wiegmann, 1834: 10

Type species: Lacerta boskiana Lichtenstein, 1823, by monotypy.

References

Primary references

Wiegmann, A.F.A. 1834. Herpetologia mexicana, seu Descriptio amphibiorum Novae Hispaniae quae itineribus comitis De Sack, Ferdinandi Deppe et Chr. Guil. Schiede in Museum zoologicum Berolinense pervenerunt. Pars prima saurorum species amplectens, adjecto systematis saurorum prodromo, additisque multis in hunc amphibiorum ordinem observationibus. C. G. Luderitz: Berolini. i–vi, 54 pp., pls. I–X. BHL

Additional references

Heidari, N., Rastegar-Pouyani, N., Rastegar-Pouyani, E. & Rajabizadeh, M. 2013. A new species of Acanthodactylus Fitzinger 1834 (Sauria: Lacertidae) from southern Iran. Zootaxa 3722(3): 333–346. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3722.3.3 Reference page.
Tamar, K., Carranza, S., Sindaco, R., Moravec, J., Trape, J.-F. & Meiri, S. 2016. Out of Africa: Phylogeny and biogeography of the widespread genus Acanthodactylus (Reptilia: Lacertidae). Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 103: 6–18. DOI: 10.1016/j.ympev.2016.07.003 Reference page.
Tamar, K., Geniez, P., Brito, J.C. & Crochet, P-A. 2017. Systematic revision of Acanthodactylus busacki (Squamata: Lacertidae) with a description of a new species from Morocco. Zootaxa 4276(3): 357–386. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4276.3.3 Reference page.
Miralles, A., Geniez, P., Beddek, M., Aranda, D.M., Brito, J.C., Leblois, R. & Crochet, P.-A. 2020. Morphology and multilocus phylogeny of the Spiny-footed Lizard (Acanthodactylus erythrurus) complex reveal two new mountain species from the Moroccan Atlas. Zootaxa 4747(2): 302–326. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4747.2.4 Reference page.
Kurnaz, M. & Şahin, M.K. 2021. Contribution to the taxonomic knowledge of Acanthodactylus (Squamata, Lacertidae): Description of a new lacertid lizard species from Eastern Anatolia, Turkey. Journal of Wildlife and Biodiversity 5(3): 100–119. DOI: 10.22120/jwb.2021.523523.1214 Reference page.
Mozaffari, O., Mohammadi, S., Saberi-Pirooz, R. & Ahmadzadeh, F. 2021. A new species of Acanthodactylus Fitzinger, 1834 (Sauria: Lacertidae) from the Zagros Mountains, Iran. Zootaxa 5047(1): 17–32. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5047.1.2 Reference page.

Links

Uetz, P. & Hallermann, J. 2024. Acanthodactylus . The Reptile Database. Accessed on 22 October 2017.

Vernacular names

English: Fringe-fingered Lizards
Nederlands: Franjeteenhagedissen

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