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Duméril's Fringe-fingered Lizard
Acanthodactylus dumerilii
Duméril's fringe-fingered lizard (Acanthodactylus dumerili, also misspelled as Acanthodactylus dumerilii) is a species of the genus fringe-fingered lizards in the Acanthodactylus scutellatus species group. It is found in the West and Central Sahara.
From the article Duméril's fringe-fingered lizard on Wikipedia (CC BY-SA), quoted section by section
Description
Duméril's fringe-fingered lizard is overall yellowish brown, as are many fringed fingered lizards. Its body is gracile and elongated. It has long fingers with fringe-like scales, which gave the genus its common name. It can be distinguished from A. longipes by the presence of contrasting dark brown or black spots across the dorsal surface.
Range & habitat
The typical habitat of Duméril's fringe-fingered lizard is mainly found in the deserts of Algeria, Libya, Morocco, Mauritania, Senegal, Tunisia and the Western Sahara. In the areas of Erg Chebbi and M’hamid of Southern Morocco it is found together with Acanthodactylus longipes. However, these closely related species prefer different habitats. Duméril's fringe-fingered lizard avoids deserts free of vegetation and is mainly found at the edges of dunes overgrown by some bushes and halfa grass (Stipa tenacissima), or lives in soil covered with sparse vegetation, where it constructs its burrows.
Wikipedia: “Habitat and geographic range”
In human culture
The specific name, dumerilii, is in honor of French herpetologist André Marie Constant Duméril.
Wikipedia: “Etymology”
Where it lives
Recorded sightings
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geo-referenced records in GBIF, from museums, herbaria and field observers.
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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 35408.