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Acanthodactylus scutellatus audouini Boulenger, 1918:154 (Fig. 23) 
1918 Acanthodactylus scutellatus Var. Audouini Boulenger, Sur les lezards du genre Acanthodactylus 
Wiegm. Bulletin de la Societe Zoologique de France 43:143-155. 
Lectotype.— BMNH 1920.1.20.3006, “Wed El Kreil, Tunisia” designated by Crochet et al. (2003), 
[Tunisia]. Original type locality: “Egypte, Nubie, Tripoli, sud de la Tunisie.” 
Acanthodactylus scutellatus [part], Le Berre 1989:190. 
Acanthodactylus scutellatus, Schleich, Kastle, and Kabisch 1996:397. 
Acanthodactylus scutellatus audouini, Sindaco and Jeremcenko 2008:221. 
Acanthodactylus scutellatus audouini, Trape, Trape, and Chirio 2012:312. 
Distribution.— Senegal, 
Mauritania and Western across 
Africa to Egypt (although absent 
from much of the Eastern Desert, 
Baha El Din 2006a) and Sudan, con¬ 
tinuing through Sinai Israel, Jordan, 
Iraq, Kuwait and far northwestern, 
as well as eastern Saudi Arabia In 
Libya distributed across the country. 
Libyan Records (Map 31): 
CYRENAICA: NuoatalKhams : 3: 
NHMC 80.3.110.10-17. 5: BMNH 
1955.1.8.61-62, 1965.1130, 1965. 
1282; Salvador 1982. 5a: AIC (3 
specimens) no numbers provided; Ibrahim and 
Ineich 2005. 7: Brito et al. 2008. Zawiyah : 12: 
ZMB 39061. 17: BMNH 1955.1.8.63; Salvador 
1982. 16: BMNH 1982.372-76. 23: MZUT 
R3262. Jafara : 26: MZUT R3264. Tripoli : 
35: BMNH 1954.1.6.10-30, 1954.1.6.45-60; 
Salvador 1982. 36: BMNH 1955.1.6.10-30, 
45-60. 38: MCZ R 22348; USNM 148485. 39: 
FMNH 82967, 82970; MCZ R 22350-51; 
MNHN 1976.369-70; UMNH 4238. 43: 
MZUT R3263; NHMW 31120. 45: BMNH 
1955.1.8.58-60; Crotchet et al. 2003; NHMW 
8228; SMF 13648-51; ZMB 13781, 14031, 
15304, 15307, 15322, 15329-30; Condorelli- 
Francaviglia 1896; Konig 1888; Werner 1909; 
Ghigi 1913; Boulenger 1918, 1921; Zavatari 
1934. 50: BMNH 1954.1.6.43-44; Salvador 
1982. 51: NMBA-REPT 15393. 53: BMNH 
1955.1.6.43-44; MSNG 31589*; NMBA- 
REPT 15323. 56: BMNH 1955.1.8.65, 1965.1283; Salvador 1982. Muroub : 62: BMNH 
1982.369-71. 64: FMNH 82924; ZMB 18015-17. 68: BMNH 1913.12.30.6-10, 1954.1.6.38^10, 
1965.1129; CUP R 047-050; MSNG 28258, 52520, 52522; Boulenger 1914,1921; Zavattari 1934; 
Map 31. Distribution of Acanthodactylus scutellatus 
audouini in Libya. 
Figure 23. Acanthodactylus scutellatus audouini from Awiss area, 
Tadrart Akakus, Ghat, Fezzan, Libya, 2008. Photo © Roberto Sindaco. 
