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Acanthodactylus robustus WERNER, 1929

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Higher TaxaLacertidae, Eremiadinae, Sauria, Lacertoidea, Squamata (lizards)
Subspecies 
Common NamesE: Robust Fringe-fingered Lizard 
SynonymAcanthodactylus robustus WERNER 1929: 240
Acanthodactylus robustus —SALVADOR 1982: 106
Acanthodactylus robustus— HARRIS & ARNOLD 2000
Acanthodactylus robustus — SINDACO & JEREMČENKO 2008
Acanthodactylus robustus — MOHAMMED et al. 2017 
DistributionJordan, Syria, SW Iraq, N Saudi Arabia

Type locality: Syrische Wüste bei Bir Molusi (Ka’ra) [Syria?]  
Reproductionoviparous 
TypesHolotype: NMW 23362 
DiagnosisDiagnosis: Very robust habitus; short, wide head; relatively short limbs and tail; 2 supraoculars (2nd and 3rd; 1st and 4th divided); one or 2 rows of granules between supraoculars and superciliaries; eyelid.s not pectinate; ear opening not pectinate, upper half covered by fold of skin; tem~oral scales granular; indistinct subocular keel; subocular separated from IIp by small scale; 4 supralabials anterior to subocular; gulars large, imbricate; ventrals in 12 straight longitudinal rows; dorsals smooth, flat, slightly larger than laterals; scales on upper surface of tail large, smooth, imbricate; 3 series of scales around fingers; toes slightly pectinate. (Salvador, 1982:107, Leviton et al. 1992)


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Comment 
EtymologyFrom the Latin robustus (strong like an oak), referring to the robust body form. 
References
  • Al-Sadoon, Mohammed K., Bilal Ahmad Paray, Hamad S. Al-Otaibi 2016. Survey of the reptilian fauna of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. V. The lizard fauna of Turaif region. Saudi Journal of Biological Sciences, doi:10.1016/j.sjbs.2016.04.005 - get paper here
  • Disi, A.M.; Modry, D.; Nečas, P. & Rifai, L. 2001. Amphibians and reptiles of the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan. Edition Chimaira, Frankfurt, 408 pp.
  • Disi, Ahmad M., Zuhair S. Amr and Harald Martens 2004. On a collection of amphibians and reptiles made by J. Klapperich in Jordan. Herpetozoa 16 (3/4):141-150 - get paper here
  • Frommer, Jürgen 2008. Beobachtungen an den Eidechsen Jordaniens. Die Eidechse 19 (1): 1-13 - get paper here
  • Gemel, R.; G. Gassner & S. Schweiger 2019. Katalog der Typen der Herpetologischen Sammlung des Naturhistorischen Museums Wien – 2018. Ann. Naturhist. Mus. Wien, B 121: 33–248 - get paper here
  • Haas G. and Werner, Y. L. 1969. Lizards and snakes from Southwestern Asia, collected by Henry Field. Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool. Harvard 138: 327-406. - get paper here
  • Leviton,A.E.; Anderson,S.C.; Adler, K.; Minton,S.A. 1992. Handbook to Middle East Amphibians and Reptiles. SSAR, Oxford, Ohio (Contr. to Herpetol. No. 8), 1-252
  • Mohammed, Rihab Ghaleb; Fadhel Aabbas Rhadi, Nasrullah Rastegar-Pouyani, Eskandar Rastegar-Pouyani, Seyyed Saeed Hosseinian Yousefkhani 2017. Zoogeography of Lizards Fauna from Central and Southern Iraq with a Checklist of Iraqi Lizard’s Fauna. Russ. J. Herpetol. 24 (3): 193-201 - get paper here
  • Salvador, A 1982. A revision of the lizards of the genus Acanthodactylus (Sauria: Lacertidae). Bonner Zool. Monogr. (16): 1-167 - get paper here
  • Schmidt,K.P. 1930. Reptiles of Marshall Field North Arabian Desert Expedition, 1927-1928. Field Mus. Nat. Hist. Zool. xvii: 221-230 - get paper here
  • Schmidt,K.P. 1939. Reptiles and amphibians from Southwestern Asia. Publ. Field Mus. nat. Hist., zool. Ser., 24: 49-92 - get paper here
  • Sindaco, R. & Jeremcenko, V.K. 2008. The reptiles of the Western Palearctic. Edizioni Belvedere, Latina (Italy), 579 pp. - get paper here
  • van der Kuyl, Antoinette C.; Donato L. Ph. Ballasina, John T. Dekker, Jolanda Maas, Ronald E. Willemsen and Jaap Goudsmit 2002. Phylogenetic Relationships among the Species of the Genus Testudo (Testudines: Testudinidae) Inferred from Mitochondrial 12S rRNA Gene Sequences. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 22: 174-183 - get paper here
  • Werner, Franz 1929. Beitrage zur Kenntnis der Fauna von Syrien und Persien. Zool. Anz. 81 (7/10): 238-245 - get paper here
 
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