Acanthodactylus nilsoni explained

Acanthodactylus nilsoni, commonly called Nilson's spiny-toed lizard, is a species of lizard in the family Lacertidae. The species is endemic to Iran.

Etymology

The specific name, nilsoni, is in honor of Swedish herpetologist Göran Nilson (born 1948).^[1]

Geographic range

A. nilsoni is found in Kermanshah Province, western Iran.

Description

A. nilsoni is medium-sized for its genus, with a maximum snout-to-vent length (SVL) of 7.4cm (02.9inches), and a maximum tail length of 16.5cm (06.5inches).^[2]

Reproduction

A. nilsoni is oviparous.

Further reading

• Rastegar-Pouyani, Nasrullah (1998). "A new species of Acanthodactylus (Sauria: Lacertidae) from Qasr-E-Shirin, Kermanshah Province, Western Iran". Proceedings of the California Academy of Sciences 50: 257–265. (Acanthodactylus nilsoni, new species).
• Sindaco, Roberto; Jeremčenko, Valery K. (2008). The Reptiles of the Western Palearctic. 1. Annotated Checklist and Distributional Atlas of the Turtles, Crocodiles, Amphisbaenians and Lizards of Europe, North Africa, Middle East and Central Asia. (Monographs of the Societas Herpetologica Italica). Latina, Italy: Edizioni Belvedere. 580 pp. .
• Šmíd, Jiří; Moravec, Jiří; Kodym, Petr; Yousefkhani, Seyyed Saeed Hosseinian; Rastegar-Pouyani, Eskandar; Frynta, Daniel (2014). "Annotated checklist and distribution of the lizards of Iran". Zootaxa 3855 (1): 001–097.

Notes and References

1. Beolens, Bo; Watkins, Michael; Grayson, Michael (2011). The Eponym Dictionary of Reptiles. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. xiii + 296 pp. . (Acanthodactylus nilsoni, p. 191).
2. Rastegar-Pouyani N (1998).