{"id":2059725,"date":"2019-06-15T18:00:00","date_gmt":"2019-06-15T17:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/?guid=756f07d3ceaa07995cf7d52ca2971867"},"modified":"2019-12-23T01:47:49","modified_gmt":"2019-12-22T12:47:49","slug":"snake-tailed-fringe-toed-lizard-quraish","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/snake-tailed-fringe-toed-lizard-quraish\/","title":{"rendered":"Snake-tailed Fringe-toed Lizard – Quraish"},"content":{"rendered":"

Whilst birding recently in the Tanoumah area I came across a Snake-tailed Fringe-toed Lizard Acanthodactylus opheodurus down a tree filled wadi.<\/p>\n

The lizards were very active even during the hottest part of the day and where always found near small low-lying plants with hard sandy soil. It is superficially similar to its larger congener Acanthodactylus boskianus, and was described officially in 1980.<\/p>\n

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Snake-tailed Fringe-toed Lizard – Acanthodactylus opheodurus<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

As its name suggests, this species has a particularly long tail and, in common with other Acanthodactylus species, the toes are fringed with scales adapted for running over loose sand.<\/p>\n

Like other lacertids, the body is long and cylindrical, and the legs are well developed, with the animal having a basic body colour of grey, with seven dark stripes running down the back and sides and a tail tinged red in immatures.<\/p>\n

They live in a range of arid habitats, including plains with relatively hard sand cover and low hills covered by dense bushes.<\/p>\n

It is a diurnal lizard and lives in burrows excavated out of hard sand where it remains concealed for all but a few hours of the day.<\/p>\n

Their burrows not only act as a shelter from predators but also provide refuge from extreme temperatures.<\/p>\n

The snake-tailed fringe-toed lizard is currently known from the Arabian Peninsula and several other countries in the Middle East, including Jordan, Kuwait and Iraq.<\/p>\n

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Whilst birding recently in the Tanoumah area I came across a Snake-tailed Fringe-toed Lizard Acanthodactylus opheodurus down a tree filled wadi. The lizards were very active even during the hottest part of the day and where always found near small low-lying plants with hard sandy soil. It is superficially similar to its larger congener Acanthodactylus […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":2149294,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[6984,5],"tags":[9852,2979,9851],"class_list":["post-2059725","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blogs","category-wildlife","tag-acanthodactylus-opheodurus","tag-lizard","tag-snake-tailed-fringe-toed-lizard"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2059725","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2059725"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2059725\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2149294"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2059725"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2059725"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2059725"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}