Fitzinger's algyroides (Algyroides fitzingeri), also commonly called the pygmy algyroides and the pygmy keeled lizard, is a species of lizard in the family Lacertidae. The species is native to the islands of Corsica and Sardinia in the Mediterranean. There are no subspecies.
Fitzinger;s algyroides was first formally described as Notolophis fitzingeri in 1834 by the German herpetologist Arend Friedrich August Wiegmann with its type locality given as Sardinia. This species is classified in the genus Algyroides which belongs to the family Lacertidae, the African and Eurasian "typical lizards".
The specific name, fitzingeri, is in honor of Austrian herpetologist Leopold Fitzinger. Fitzinger's algyroides is up to 130mm in length and is the smallest and most slender member of the genus Algyroides. It can be tod apart from the Greek algyroides, which laso has the scales on the back all being similar, by the sharp demarcation between thescales on the sides and the underside and by the absence of pale lines above the eye. Its hind legs are short in comparison to the Greek Algyroides too. It can be distinguished from the two other Algyroides species...
