Acanthodactylus maculatus ( Gray, 1838:281 )

Bauer, Aaron M., DeBoer, Jonathan C. & Taylor, Dylan J., 2017, Atlas of the Reptiles of Libya, Proceedings of the California Academy of Sciences 64 (8), pp. 155-318 : 214-215

Acanthodactylus maculatus ( Gray, 1838:281) ( FIG . 22)

Scapteira maculata Gray , Catalogue of the slender-tongued saurians, with descriptions of many new genera and species. Part 1. Annals and Magazine of Natural History, series 1, 1:274–283.

SYNTYPES.— BMNH 1946.9.3. 53 and two other specimens (fide Boulenger 1887, although Boulenger 1921 mentioned only a single “type” and Salvador 19892 referred to the “ Holotype ”), “ Tripoli ” [ Libya].

1918 Acanthodactylus pardalis Var. Latastei Boulenger , Sur les lézards du genre Acanthodactylus Wiegm. Bulletin de la Société Zoologique de France 43:143–155. [153]

SYNTYPES.— presumably BMNH, not located, “Tripoli, S. de la Tunisie, Algérie (Sahara et Hauts plateau).”

Acanthodactylus scutellatus [part], Le Berre 1989:190.

Acanthodactylus maculatus, Schleich, Kästle, and Kabisch 1996:392 .

Acanthodactylus maculatus, Sindaco and Jeremčenko 2008:218 .

Acanthodactylus maculatus, Trape, Trape, and Chirio 2012:310 .

DISTRIBUTION.— From central Morocco and northern Algeria to Tunisia and Mediterranean Tripolitania ( Tamar et al. 2016b). In Libya restricted to northwestern Tripolitania.

Libyan Records (Map 29): TRIPOLITANIA: ZAWIYAH: 11: BMNH 1965.1256; Salvador 1982. 12: MZUT R3265; ZMB 79710. 17: BMNH 1954.1.6. 61, 1955.1.8. 66; Salvador 1982. TRIPOLI: 45: BMNH 1946.9.3. 53; MZUT R2280; ZMB 14032, 15305, 15308–09, 15320–21, 15383, 18155; ZSM 484/1904; Gray 1838, 1845; Boulenger 1887, 1918, 1921; König 1888; Wern- er 1909; Salvador 1982. MURQUB: 68: BMNH

1265.1258; Boulenger 1914; Salvador 1982.

MISRATAH: 80: BMNH 1913.12.30. 11;

Boulenger 1914, 1921; Salvador 1982. NALUT:

107: MCCI R1456; Sindaco, pers. obs.

4/30/2008; Tamar et al. 2016b. 109: BMNH

1965.1257–58; Salvador 1982. 118: BMNH

1954.1.6. 4; Salvador 1982. JABAL AL GHARBI :

136: BMNH 1965.1255; Salvador 1982. 154:

ZSM 173/1979. 163: Brito et al. 2008; Fonseca et al. 2008. 164: Brito et al. 2008; Fonseca et al.

2008. “ Cyrenaica ”: BMNH 1920.1.20. 649 [in error, not plotted].

COMMENTS.— Tamar et al. (2016b) generated a multilocus phylogeny for the genus

Acanthodactylus and identified A. maculatus as a member of their “Western clade.” It is made paraphyletic by A. beershebensis , A. pardalis MAP 29. Distribution of Acanthodactylus maculatus in Libya.

and A. bedriagai , although basal support values within their entire “ pardalis group” are too low to infer meaningful support for this pattern. Their sole Libyan sample was weakly supported as sister to conspecifics from Morocco and Algeria. The subspecific epithet “ latastei ” was subsequently misspelled “ latastii ” by Boulenger (1921).

IUCN THREAT STATUS.— Least Concern.

Figures

FIGURE 22. Acanthodactylus maculatus from 5 km east of Al Jawsh, Nalut, Tripolitania, Libya, 2008. Photo © Roberto Sindaco.