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Bosc's Fringe-toed Lizard
Acanthodactylus boskianus (Daudin, 1802)

Current SSAR Comments:
Newly listed species. Native to northern Africa and the Arabian Peninsula. It is established in a small area of coastal Ventura County, California, by October 2023 (Hansen and Shedd. 2025, California Amphibians and Reptiles. Princeton University Press. 520 pp) (Los Angeles County Museum [LACM] 195828; California State University, Northridge [CSUN] 4259, 5831). An effort is underway to eradicate the species before it spreads further (Robert N. Fisher, USGS, San Diego, California, personal communication).

Range maps are based on curated specimens and provided gratis by CNAH.
(Created by Travis W. Taggart; Version: 2024.03.31.21.32.45)
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First instance(s) of published English names:
No historic English names have been assigned to this taxon yet.

Taxon Links:

  
Catalog of American Amphibians and Reptiles
  
The Reptile Database
  
NatureServe
  
iNaturalist
  
GenBank
  
USGS - Nonindigenous Aquatic Species Database

Pertinent LIterature:
1802 Daudin, Francois M. Histoire naturelle des rainettes, des grenouilles et des crapauds. [Natural history of tree frogs, frogs and toads.] Quarto version. de L'imprimerie de Bertrandet, Rue de Sorbonne, Paris, France. 468pp.
2025 Hansen, Robert W. and Jackson D. Shedd. California Amphibians and Reptiles. Princeton University Press, Princeton, New Jersey. 520pp.

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