Uromastyx acanthinura | 台北市立動物園資訊網

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Uromastyx acanthinura inhabits the Saharan desert from the Saharan Atlas (Morocco, Tunisia) to the Sudan and from Mauritania to Algeria and Egypt. It is widespread throughout North Africa as a whole. Being a territorial species inhabiting a relatively harsh and unproductive habitat, it is fairly thinly spread over the areas it does inhabit and population densities may be low. (Bartlett, 2003[1]; Gray, 2001[2]; Highfield and Slimani, 2010[3])

Uromastyx acanthinura occupies desert habitats, but specifically occupies rocky areas that can support its burrows. In the desert, its most common habitats are rocky or semi-rocky sandy areas and, rarely, open sandy desert. The burrows that this species builds are often beneath bushes or in hi...