Acanthodactylus boskianus
Silhouette: Gustav Mützel · PhyloPic
In 3 days ~20% in a week ~50%
Bosc's fringe-toed lizard or Bosk's [sic] fringe-fingered lizard (Acanthodactylus boskianus) is a species of lizard in the family Lacertidae. The species is endemic to North Africa and Western Asia. Three subspecies are sometimes recognised; A. boskianus boskianus, from Lower Egypt; A. boskianus euphraticus from Iraq; and A. boskianus asper from the rest of the range; however this division is unsatisfactory because each subspecies has much variation and the differences between them are not consistent.
A. boskianus is a medium-sized lizard with a snout-to-vent length (SVL) of between 5 and 8 cm (2.0 and 3.1 in). Males are usually larger than females. The feet have long slender digits which are fringed. The dorsal surface is olive-grey with five longitudinal dark stripes, the middle one of which subdivides at the neck. The ventral surface is whitish, but in the female, the underside of the tail becomes suffused with red during the breeding season. In juveniles, the tail is blue.
A. boskianus is found in Algeria, Egypt, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Iran, Iraq, Israel, Jordan, Kuwait, Libya, Mali, Mauritania, Niger, Nigeria, Oman, Saudi Arabia, Sudan... Wikipedia →
| # | Park | Country | Daily sighting probability |
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| # | City | Country | Daily sighting probability |
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| 1 | Tel Aviv | 🇮🇱 Israel |
With luck
About 10% of wildlife watchers report a Bosc’s Fringe-toed lizard sighting in Tel Aviv on a given day, based on 10 verified sightings from GBIF citizen-science data. It is the 9th most-seen of the 14 reptiles we can rate there. Over three days the chance rises to about 20%, and over a week to about 50%, if each day is a fresh chance.
September
In that month about 30% of wildlife watchers report a Bosc’s Fringe-toed lizard in Tel Aviv on a given day, against under 5% in April, June–August and November–January, the lowest months. That is one of Tel Aviv's driest months, with almost no rain against 90 mm in January.
Only Tel Aviv, in our data
Tel Aviv is the only city on Wallace's Line with enough records to rate Bosc’s Fringe-toed lizard sightings: about 10% of wildlife watchers there report one on a given day.
GBIF citizen-science records
It is estimated from how often the Bosc’s Fringe-toed lizard is recorded against all the reptiles logged in Tel Aviv (10 verified sightings), calibrated against known sighting rates. Figures are rounded to the nearest 10% because citizen-science data supports honest approximations, not decimals, and months with records from fewer than five people show "—". How it works.
