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  United Arab Emirates:  10 species
 
Acanthodactylus blanfordii BOULENGER, 1918
Acanthodactylus boskianus asper (AUDOUIN, 1829)
Acanthodactylus gongrorhynchatus LEVITON & ANDERSON, 1967
Acanthodactylus haasi LEVITON & ANDERSON, 1967
Acanthodactylus opheodurus ARNOLD, 1980
Acanthodactylus schmidti HAAS, 1957
Mesalina adramitana (BOULENGER, 1917)
Mesalina brevirostris BLANFORD, 1874
Omanosaura cyanura (ARNOLD, 1972)
Omanosaura jayakari (BOULENGER, 1887)
 
 

Mesalina adramitana

 

Mesalina adramitana

 

  (BOULENGER, 1917)

 
 
 

Lives on sandy and gravelly planes and in the Masafi mountains, sometimes found on softer sand near the coast and around Sweyhan. Hides in the bases of shrubs or, less commonly,in burrows that it digs itself


 
 

Source: Marycke Jongbloed `Field Guide to the Reptiles and Amphibians of the UAE. Wild About Reptiles`

 
 
 

Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates, Yemen

 
 
 
 

Mesalina adramitana  © 2008 Drew Gardner