A note on Acanthodactylus guineensis (Boulenger, 1887) (Sauria: Lacertidae)

Abstract

Despite the recently considerably increased knowledge of the distribution range of Acanthodactylus guineensis, scalation characters of all available specimens (67 specimens) of this rare lacertid lizard reveal no geographically correlated variation. A. guineensis, ranging from Mali to Cameroon, has to be regarded as monotypic. A lectotype is designated for Eremias benuensis Monard, 1949, a synonym of A. guineensis.