''Acanthodactylus tristrami'',
commonly called the Lebanon fringe-fingered lizard and Tristram's spiny-footed lizard, is a
species of
lizard
Lizards are a widespread group of squamate reptiles, with over 7,000 species, ranging across all continents except Antarctica, as well as most oceanic island chains. The group is paraphyletic since it excludes the snakes and Amphisbaenia alt ...
in the
family Lacertidae
The Lacertidae are the family (biology), family of the wall lizards, true lizards, or sometimes simply lacertas, which are native to Afro-Eurasia. It is a diverse family with at least 300 species in 39 genera. They represent the dominant group o ...
. The species is
endemic to the
Middle East.
Etymology
The
specific name Specific name may refer to:
* in Database management systems, a system-assigned name that is unique within a particular database
In taxonomy, either of these two meanings, each with its own set of rules:
* Specific name (botany), the two-part (bino ...
, ''tristrami'', is in honor of
Canon Henry Baker Tristram, who was an English naturalist and Anglican priest.
[Beolens, Bo; Watkins, Michael; Grayson, Michael (2011). ''The Eponym Dictionary of Reptiles''. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. xiii + 296 pp. . (''Acanthodactylus tristrami'', p. 268).]
Geographic range
''A. tristrami'' is found in
Iraq,
Jordan,
Lebanon, and
Syria
Syria ( ar, سُورِيَا or سُورِيَة, translit=Sūriyā), officially the Syrian Arab Republic ( ar, الجمهورية العربية السورية, al-Jumhūrīyah al-ʻArabīyah as-Sūrīyah), is a Western Asian country loc ...
Habitat
The preferred
habitat of ''A. tristrami'' is
shrubland
Shrubland, scrubland, scrub, brush, or bush is a plant community characterized by vegetation dominated by shrubs, often also including grasses, herbs, and geophytes. Shrubland may either occur naturally or be the result of human activity. It m ...
.
Reproduction
*''A. tristrami'' is
oviparous
Oviparous animals are animals that lay their eggs, with little or no other embryonic development within the mother. This is the reproductive method of most fish, amphibians, most reptiles, and all pterosaurs, dinosaurs (including birds), and ...
.
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References
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. .
*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. .
Acanthodactylus
Lizards of Asia
Reptiles of Iraq
Reptiles of Jordan
Reptiles of Syria
Reptiles described in 1864
Taxa named by Albert Günther
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