Acanthodactylus tristrami

Lebanon fringe-fingered lizard
Conservation status
Least Concern  (IUCN 3.1)[1]
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Reptilia
Order:	Squamata
Family:	Lacertidae
Genus:	Acanthodactylus
Species:	A. tristrami
Binomial name
Acanthodactylus tristrami (Günther, 1864)
Synonyms[2]
Zootoca tristrami Günther, 1864 Acanthodactylus dorsalis W. Peters, 1869 Lacerta tristrami — Boettger, 1880 Acanthodactylus tristrami — Boulenger, 1881

Acanthodactylus tristrami, commonly called the Lebanon fringe-fingered lizard and Tristram's spiny-footed lizard, is a species of lizard in the family Lacertidae. The species is endemic to the Middle East.

Etymology

The specific name, tristrami, is in honor of Canon Henry Baker Tristram, who was an English naturalist and Anglican priest.^[3]

Geographic range

A. tristrami is found in Iraq, Jordan, Lebanon, and Syria^[2]

Habitat

The preferred habitat of A. tristrami is shrubland.^[1]

Reproduction

• A. tristrami is oviparous.^[2]

References

1. Ahmad Mohammed Mousa Disi, Souad Hraoui-Bloquet, Riyad Sadek, Roberto Sindaco (2009). "Acanthodactylus tristrami". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2009: e.T164627A5913029. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2009.RLTS.T164627A5913029.en. Retrieved 19 November 2021.
2. Acanthodactylus tristrami at the Reptarium.cz Reptile Database. Accessed 20 October 2015.
3. Beolens, Bo; Watkins, Michael; Grayson, Michael (2011). The Eponym Dictionary of Reptiles. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. xiii + 296 pp. ISBN 978-1-4214-0135-5. (Acanthodactylus tristrami, p. 268).

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 Edition. 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. ISBN 978-3930612123.
• 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. ISBN 978-88-89504-14-7.