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, the
Spanish algyroides and the
blue-throated keeled lizard, by the unreduced scales on its flanks. The head is flattened, with a redulced layer of
osteoderms and the supraciliary laminae are only partly
ossified, there are no teeth on the
pterygoid. This species is the only species of algyroides known to have a
hemipenis with
epithelium on the crown, the hemipenis of the others have simple extended tips. ==Geographic range==