Acanthodactylus margaritae
Acanthodactylus margaritae is a species of lizard in the family Lacertidae. The species is endemic to Morocco.
The specific name, margaritae, is in honor of Greek herpetologist Margarita Metallinou, who died tragically while doing field work in Africa in 2015.
Oviparous animals are female animals that lay their eggs, with little or no other embryonic development within the mother. This is the reproductive...
Precocial species are those in which the young are relatively mature and mobile from the moment of birth or hatching. Precocial species are normall...
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starts withThe maximum recorded snout-to-vent length (SVL) for A. margaritae is 7.1 cm (2.8 in).
A. margaritae is found in southern Morocco.
A. margaritae inhabits a variety of desert and semidesert habitats, including stony plains, stable sands, fixed dunes, hard clay with sparse low vegetation, and open argan tree forest.
A. margaritae is oviparous.