Acanthodactylus nilsoni, commonly called Nilson's spiny-toed lizard, is a species of lizard in the family Lacertidae. The species is endemic to Iran.
Etymology The specific name, nilsoni, is in honor of Swedish herpetologist Göran Nilson (born 1948).Beolens, Bo; Watkins, Michael; Grayson, Michael (2011). The Eponym Dictionary of Reptiles. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. xiii + 296 pp. . (Acanthodactylus nilsoni, p. 191).
Geographic distribution Acanthodactylus nilsoni is found in Kermanshah Province, western Iran.
Habitat The preferred natural habitats of Acanthodactylus nilsoni are grassland and shrubland, at elevations up to .
Description Acanthodactylus nilsoni is medium-sized for its genus, with a maximum snout-to-vent length (SVL) of , and a maximum tail length of .Rastegar-Pouyani N (1998).
Behavior Acanthodactylus nilsoni is terrestrial.
Reproduction Acanthodactylus nilsoni is oviparous.
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Further reading
574 pp. Rastegar-Pouyani, Nasrullah (1998). "A new species of Acanthodactylus (Sauria: Lacertidae) from Qasr-E-Shirin, Kermanshah Province, Western Iran". Proceedings of the California Academy of Sciences 50: 257–265. (Acanthodactylus nilsoni, new species). Sindaco, Roberto; Jeremčenko, Valery K. (2008). The Reptiles of the Western Palearctic. 1. Annotated Checklist and Distributional Atlas of the Turtles, Crocodiles, Amphisbaenians and Lizards of Europe, North Africa, Middle East and Central Asia. (Monographs of the Societas Herpetologica Italica). Latina, Italy: Edizioni Belvedere. 580 pp. . Šmíd, Jiří; Moravec, Jiří; Kodym, Petr; Kratochvíl, Lukáš; Yousefkhani, Seyyed Saeed Hosseinian; Rastegar-Pouyani, Eskandar; Frynta, Daniel (2014). "Annotated checklist and distribution of the lizards of Iran". Zootaxa 3855 (1): 001–097.