Acanthodactylus guineensis | |
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Conservation status | |
Least Concern (IUCN 3.1) | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Reptilia |
Order: | Squamata |
Family: | Lacertidae |
Genus: | Acanthodactylus |
Species: | A. guineensis |
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
A. guineensis is found in Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Ghana, Mali, Niger, and Nigeria.
Reproduction
A. guineensis is oviparous.
References
- 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.
- ^ Acanthodactylus guineensis at the Reptarium.cz Reptile Database. Accessed 20 October 2015.
Further reading
- 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).
Taxon identifiers | |
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Acanthodactylus guineensis |
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- 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