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Figure 5. Index maps of Cyrenaica showing numbers used for localities in this atlas (see also Fig. 6). Inset maps are 1) 
northern Benghazi and adjacent Maij, 2) northwestern A1 Wahat, See APPENDIX for corresponding coordinates and local¬ 
ity names. 
is sufficiently different that many place names would be transliterated differently than from Stan¬ 
dard Arabic. In many cases localities could be identified unambiguously or through the use of 
Fuzzy Gazetteer (Kohlschutter 2015), which allowed for variability in the spelling of locality 
name. We also used the context of published papers, the itineraries of collectors and other data 
sources in order to find localities. In so doing we identified numerous cases in which earlier authors 
or georeferencers clearly misplaced localities, sometimes even in the wrong country. Only in a few 
cases, when we could locate no evidence of the published use of a place name, was it necessary to 
accept a previously georeferenced locality on blind faith. 
The names and coordinates of localities were compared to other literature sources for Libyan 
reptile distribution (e.g., Schleich et al. 1996; Sindaco and Jeremcenko 2008; Trape et al. 2012; 
Sindaco et al. 2013) and with relevant taxon-specific literature in order to identify potential mis- 
