Acanthodactylus longipes Boulenger, 1918:154

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 : 213-214

Acanthodactylus longipes Boulenger, 1918:154

1918 Acanthodactylus scutellatus var. longipes Boulenger , Sur les lézards du genre Acanthodactylus Wieg. Bulletin de la Société Zoologique de France 43:143–155.

LECTOTYPE.— BMNH 1946.8.4. 31, “Wargla, Algeria.” designated by Crochet et al. (2003). Original published type locality “Sahara algérien.”

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

Acanthodactylus longipes, Schleich, Kästle, and Kabisch 1996:402 .

Acanthodactylus longipes, Sindaco and Jeremčenko 2008:220 .

Acanthodactylus longipes, Trape, Trape, and Chirio 2012:308 .

DISTRIBUTION.— Mauritania, Mali and southern Morocco through Algeria, Niger,

Libya and Chad to Egypt west of the Nile Valley and Delta ( Tamar et al. 2016b). Libyan records are few and restricted to the inland west of Tripolitania and Fezzan, although the global distribution suggests that A. longipes should also inhabit the inland regions of eastern Libya.

Libyan Records (Map 28): TRIPOLITA-

NIA: NALUT: 125: Brito et al. 2008. FEZZAN:

WADI AL SHATII: 209: Brito et al. 2008. WADI AL

HAYAA: 277: Brito et al. 2008. SABHA: 285:

BMNH 1954.1.6. 42; Salvador 1982. MURZUQ :

298: BMNH (1) not cataloged; Salvador 1982.

299: BMNH 1982.391. 312: Brito et al. 2008.

“ SW Libya ”: photo, Sindaco and Jeremčenko

2008; Werner and Ibrahim 2012. MAP 28. Distribution of Acanthodactylus longipes in COMMENTS.— Baha El Din (1996) first Libya.

reported the species from Egypt, where it had previously been confused with A. scutellatus . Initial records were from across northern Egypt both east and west of the Nile and across northern Sinai ( Baha El Din 1996) . Specimens from east of the Nile Delta reported by Werner (1998) and Baha El Din (2006a) have since been allocated to A. aegyptius Baha El Din, 2007 . Tamar et al. (2016b) generated a multilocus phylogeny for the genus Acanthodactylus and found A. longipes to be monophyletic and a member of the “ scutellatus clade,” although they included no Libyan samples. As noted by Crochet et al. (2003), there are a s mall number of vouchered specimens given that the species has been mentioned by several authors as extremely common in Libya ( Salvador, 1982; Schleich et. al. 1996; Sindaco and Jeremčenko 2008). Bons and Girot (1964) considered the species to be distributed across inland Tripolitania.

IUCN THREAT STATUS.— Not assessed, but assumed to be Least Concern.