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Boulenger (1885) listed several specimens collected by Louis Fraser (corresponding to BMNH 
1846.11.4.16-18) from “Susa, Tripoli.” However, Fraser was based in 1846 in Tunis and is known 
to have collected other specimens from Susa (modem Sousse or Soussa), Tunis, approximately 130 
km south of Tunis. It is thus likely that these specimens are not from Libya and they have been 
excluded from our dataset. 
IUCN Threat Status.— Included within the assessment of Tarentola mauritanica which has 
the status Least Concern. Evaluated separately Tarentola fascicularis is also anticipated to be Least 
Concern. 
Tarentola mindiae Baha el Din 1997:31, figs. 1-2 
1997 Tarentola mindiae Baha el Din, Anew species of Tarentola (Squamata: Gekkonidae) from the West¬ 
ern Desert of Egypt. African Journal of Herpetology 46:30-35. 
Holotype.— FMNH 252492, “30°32'N 28°32'E south of Mingar Abu Dweis in the Qattara Depression, 
Egypt.” 
Tarentola mindiae, Sindaco and Jeremcenko 2008:136. 
Distribution.— Northwestern Egypt west of the Nile and adjacent inland eastern Libya, 
chiefly in association with low-lying oases and other areas of relatively dense vegetation. 
Libyan Records (Map 24): CYRE- 
NAICA: Butnan: 520: Vinciguerra 1931; 
Zavattari 1934; Loveridge 1947. 521: Vin¬ 
ciguerra 1927; Zavattari 1929, 1930, 1934; 
Gestro and Vinciguerra 1931; Zavattari 1937; 
Loveridge 1947; Ibrahim 2008b. Al Wahat : 
564: BMNH 1932.3.6.5; Baha El Din 2006a; 
Bshaena 2011. 
Comments:.— This species is only 
known with certainty in Libya from a single 
specimen. A distribution map in Bshaena 
(2011) mapped two Libyan localities near the 
Egyptian border, however, in the text the same 
author was explicit that there was only a single 
record. Baha El Din (1997, 2006a) suggested 
that the distribution of this species was likely to 
extend from the Qattara Depression and Siwa 
Oasis westward into Cyrenaica south of the 
Jabal al Akhdar, and this broad distribution has been depicted on the map accompanying the IUCN 
assessment of the species (Baha El Din 2006b). He further suggested that many inland Libyan 
records from T. mauritanica (i.e., T. fascicularis ) might actually be referable to T. mindiae and 
explicitly mentioned the record of Loveridge (1947) from Giarabub (Jaghbub) as a probable exam¬ 
ple. Sindaco and Jeremcenko (2008) did not plot the confirmed Jalu record, but did plot the Gia¬ 
rabub locus. We here include both the Giarabub and nearby Hish as Sahabi (Es Sahabi) rcords as 
probable T. mindiae, although we have not confirmed this. 
IUCN Threat Status.— Least Concern. 
Map 24. Distribution of Tarentola mindiae in Libya. 
