Ptyodactylus oudrii LATASTE, 1880

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Higher Taxa	Phyllodactylidae, Gekkota, Sauria, Squamata (lizards: geckos)
Subspecies
Common Names	E: Oudri’s fan-footed gecko, Algerian Fan-fingered Gecko
Synonym	Ptyodactylus oudrii LATASTE 1880 Ptyodactylus hasselquistii var. oudrii — ANDERSON 1898 Ptyodactylus hasselquistii oudrii — LOVERIDGE 1947 Ptyodactylus hasselquistii oudrii — BONS 1959 Ptyodactylus hasselquistii oudrii — WERMUTH 1965: 156 Ptyodactylus oudrii — HEIMES 1987 Ptyodactylus oudrii — KLUGE 1993 Ptyodactylus oudrii — SCHLEICH, KÄSTLE & KABISCH 1996: 241 Ptyodactylus oudrii — SINDACO & JEREMČENKO 2008
Distribution	Algeria, Morocco (NW Sahara), Western Sahara, W Tunisia Type locality: restricted to Bou Saada, Algeria (LOVERIDGE 1947).
Reproduction	oviparous
Types	Syntype: MCZ R-4639, R-166609, R-166608
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Comment	Distribution: See map in METALLINOU et al. 2015: 210 (Fig. 1).
Etymology	Named after the French Capitaine Oudri who was stationed in Biskra, Algeria, for 8 years and collected reptiles which were then studied by Lataste.
References	Barata, Mafalda; Ana Perera, D. James Harris, Arie van der Meijden, Salvador Carranza, Francisco Ceacero, Enrique García-Muñoz, Duarte Gonçalves, Sérgio Henriques, Fátima Jorge, Jonathan C. Marshall, Luis Pedrajas and Pedro Sousa 2011. New observations of amphibians and reptiles in Morocco, with a special emphasis on the eastern region. Herpetological Bulletin (116): 4 - get paper here Beddek M, Zenboudji-Beddek S, Geniez P, Fathalla R, Sourouille P, Arnal V, et al. 2018. Comparative phylogeography of amphibians and reptiles in Algeria suggests common causes for the east-west phylogeographic breaks in the Maghreb. PLoS ONE 13(8): e0201218 - get paper here Beolens, Bo; Michael Watkins, and Michael Grayson 2011. The Eponym Dictionary of Reptiles. Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore, USA - get paper here Bons, J. 1959. Les lacertiliens du sud-ouest Marocain; systematique, repartition geographique, ethologie, ecologie. Instit. Sci. Cherifien, Rabat, Trav. (Ser. Zool.) no. 18 130 pp. Bouam, I., Abdennebi, A., Chaouch, L. T., Lemoufek, T., Benmokhtar, E., Mebarki, T., ... & Messaoudi, T. 2025. Atlas of the herpetofauna of Batna Province and the Belezma Biosphere Reserve, north-eastern Algeria. Acta Herpetologica - get paper here FRANÇOIS, Andre; Thibault DIEULEVEUT & Jesse GABBARD 2015. Ptyodactylus oudrii Lataste, 1880 (Squamata: Phyllodactylidae): First records in the North of the High Atlas mountain (Morocco). Bull. Inst. Sc. Rabat (Sci. Vie) 2015 (37) - get paper here Geniez, P.; Mateo, J.A.; Geniez, M. & Pether, J. 2004. The amphibians and reptiles of the Western Sahara (former Spanish Sahara) and adjacent regions. Edition Chimaira, Frankfurt, 228 pp. [reviewed in Reptilia GB 44: 81] Heimes, P. 1987. Beitrag zur Systematik der Fächerfinger (Sauria: Gekkonidae: Ptyodactylus). Salamandra 23 (4): 212-235 - get paper here Kane, Daniel; Steve Goodwin, Gerrit Jan Verspui, Anniek Tump, Gabriel Martínez del Mármol Marín 2019. Reptile diversity of southern Morocco: range extensions and the role of the Djebel Ouarkziz as a biogeographical barrier. Herpetology Notes 12: 787-793 - get paper here Lataste, F. 1880. Diagnoses de reptiles nouveaux d’Algérie. Le Naturaliste 1:299, 306—307, 325 - get paper here Loveridge, A. 1947. Revision of the African lizards of the family Gekkondiae. Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool. Harvard 98: 1-469 - get paper here Martínez del Mármol, Gabriel; D. James Harris, Philippe Geniez, Philip de Pous, and Daniele Salvi 2019. Amphibians and Reptiles of Morocco. Edition Chimaira, Frankfurt am Main, Germany, 478 pp - get paper here Mateo, José A. and Mariano Cuadrado 2012. Communal Nesting and Parental Care in Oudri's Fan-Footed Gecko (Ptyodactylus oudrii): Field and Experimental Evidence of an Adaptive Behavior. Journal of Herpetology 46 (2): 209-212. - get paper here Metallinou, Margarita; Jan Cervenka, Pierre-Andre Crochet, Lukas Kratochvil, Thomas Wilms, Philippe Geniez, Mohammed Y. Shobrak, Jose C. Brito, Salvador Carranza 2015. Species on the rocks: Systematics and biogeography of the rock-dwelling Ptyodactylus geckos (Squamata: Phyllodactylidae) in North Africa and Arabia. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 85: 208-220 - get paper here Perera, Ana; D. James Harris 2010. Genetic variability within the Oudri’s fan-footed gecko Ptyodactylus oudrii in North Africa assessed using mitochondrial and nuclear DNA sequences. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 54 (2): 634-639 - get paper here Rouag R, Ziane N, De Sousa M 2024. A tentative list of reptilian fauna of Algeria and their conservation status. Biodiversity Data Journal 12: e120471 - get paper here Scheler, Benjamin. 2013. Zur Haltung und Vermehrung des Fächerfingergeckos Ptyodactylus oudrii Lataste, 1880. Sauria 35 (4): 3-13 - get paper here Schleich, H.H., Kästle,W., Kabisch, K. 1996. Amphibians and Reptiles of North Africa. Koeltz, Koenigstein, 627 pp. Sindaco, R. & Jeremcenko, V.K. 2008. The reptiles of the Western Palearctic. Edizioni Belvedere, Latina (Italy), 579 pp. - get paper here Trape, J.F.; Trape, S. & Chirio, L. 2012. Lézards, crocodiles et tortues d'Afrique occidentale et du Sahara. IRD Orstom, 503 pp. - get paper here Velo-Antón, G., Henrique, M., Liz, A.V. et al. 2022. DNA barcode reference library for the West Sahara-Sahel reptiles. Scientific Data 9(1): 459. - get paper here
External links	IUCN Red List National Center for Biotechnology Information http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ympev.2009.10.020 Google images

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