Blanc's Fringe-toed Lizard

Blanc's fringe-toed lizard
Conservation status
Endangered  (IUCN 3.1)[1]
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Subphylum:	Vertebrata
Class:	Reptilia
Order:	Squamata
Suborder:	Sauria
Infraorder:	Scincomorpha
Family:	Lacertidae
Genus:	Acanthodactylus
Species:	A. blanci
Binomial name
Acanthodactylus blanci Doumergue, 1901

Blanc's fringe-toed lizard (Acanthodactylus blanci ) is a species of lacertid lizard endemic to North Africa.

Etymology

The specific name, blanci, is in honor of a "M[onsieur] Blanc" of Tunis who collected the holotype specimen.^[2]

Geographic range

A. blanci is found in Algeria and Tunisia.

Description

Adults are 6 to 9 inches (15 to 23 cm) in total length (including tail).

Habitat

Its natural habitats are temperate forests, Mediterranean-type shrubby vegetation, sandy shores, and plantations .

Conservation status

It is threatened by habitat loss.

References

1. Nouira MS, Joger U. (2006). Acanthodactylus blanci. In: IUCN 2008. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Retrieved 19 February 2009.
2. Beolens B, Watkins M, Grayson M. 2011. The Eponym Dictionary of Reptiles. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. xiii + 296 pp. ISBN 978-1-4214-0135-5. (Acanthodactylus blanci, p. 27).

Further reading

• Doumergue F. 1901. Essai sur la faune erpétologique de l'Oranie avec des tableaux analytiques et des notations pour la détermination de tous les reptiles et batraciens du Maroc, de l'Algérie et de la Tunisie. Oran: L. Fouque. 104 pp. + Plates I-XXVII. (Acanthodactylus blanci, new species, pp. 184–186 + Plate XIII, Figures 1-5).
• Salvador A. 1982. A revision of the lizards of the genus Acanthodactylus (Sauria: Lacertidae). Bonner Zoologische Monographien (16): 1-167. (Acanthodactylus blanci, pp. 69–73, Figures 30-32, Map 13).