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Balkans east to Iran. The date of description of this form is uncertain. We have interpreted it as 
1990, although the publication bears a 1989 date. 
Gekkonidae 
Tropiocolotes nattered Steindachner, 1901:326 
Schleich et al. (1996) included a single record of this species from Libya from “Graret Seccar 
at the Oued es Sceberma, east of Fezzan, 16°E, 25°30'N” as their only North African site for this 
species, which is otherwise distributed from Sinai through southern Jordan and Israel and the Pales¬ 
tinian Authority (West Bank) and into Saudi Arabia (Baha El Din 2006a; Sindaco and Jeremcenko 
2008). This was based on Schnurrenberger’s (1962) earlier record (actually from N’el Mehershe- 
ma) and certainly refers to T. steudneri. 
Phyllodactylidae 
Tarentola ephippiata hoggarensis Werner, 1937:33 
Le Berre (1989) plotted this taxon in southwestern Libya, although Libya is not mentioned in 
his list of distributions by country. According to Sindaco and Jeremcenko (2008), this species has 
been recorded from the Ahaggar in Algeria, Air Mountains in Niger, Adjar des Ifhoras in Mali, and 
Tibesti in Chad, among other parts of North Africa. Although it might be expected to occur in the 
Akakus Mountains near Ghat or in the Tibesti region on southeastern Murzuq, there are no verified 
records from the territory of Libya (Joger 1984). 
Lacertidae 
Acanthodactylus erythrurus (Schinz, 1833:102, pi. 38, bottom figure) 
A single specimen, MCSN 2116, from Tripoli, is the basis for the Libyan occurrence of this 
taxon, which is otherwise known from the Iberian Peninsula and western North Africa, as far east 
as western Tunisia (Salvador 1982; Sindaco and Jeremcenko 2008). The specimen could not be 
located during visits to the Milan collection, so the possibility of a range extension into Libya 
exists, but we believe that the identification is in error and that the specimen represents some other 
congener. 
Acanthodactylus savignyi (Audouin, 1827:172, Suppl. pi. 1, fig. 8) 
This species is supposedly represented by two specimens, MNHN 0.2760 from Tripoli, and 
SMNS 788 (Tripolitania). Western Libya is well outside of documented range of this species, in 
coastal Algeria (Salvador 1982; Sindaco and Jeremcenko 2008). These specimens need to be reex¬ 
amined, as they certainly represent some other species of Acanthodactylus, most likely A. pardalis. 
Mesalinapasteuri (Bons, 1960:69) 
Baha El Din (1995, 2006a) reported Mesalina pasteuri from Egypt for the first time from the 
Siwa Oasis in the Western Desert and also assigned several older specimens previously attributed 
to M. guttulata to this form (e.g., Marx 1968; Farid 1979; FMNH 66078, BMNH 1938.8.4.38). 
Despite the huge disjunction in the range of M. pasteuri (types from the Ahaggar, Algeria and no 
intervening records, Sindaco and Jermcenko (2008) accepted these records. There are no confirmed 
Libyan records, but the nearest Western Desert localities are only 5 km from the border (Baha El 
Din 2006a), making it almost a certainty that this species, whether M. pasteuri sensu stricto or 
something else, occurs in inland Cyrenaica. 
