Lacerta (genus)

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Lacerta
Temporal range: Miocene—Present, 15–0Ma
Sand lizard (Lacerta agilis)
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Reptilia
Order: Squamata
Family: Lacertidae
Tribe: Lacertini
Genus: Lacerta
Linnaeus, 1758
Type species
Lacerta agilis
Linnaeus, 1758
Species

Many, see text.

Lacerta is a genus of lizards of the family Lacertidae. It is fairly diverse containing around 40 species. The earliest known members of the genus are known from early Miocene epoch fossils indistinguishable in anatomy from the modern green lizards such as Lacerta viridis.[1]

Classification

Genus Lacerta

Formerly Lacerta

References

  1. Čerňanský, A. (2010). "Earliest world record of green lizards (Lacertilia, Lacertidae) from the Lower Miocene of Central Europe." Biologia, 65(4): 737-741. doi:10.2478/s11756-010-0066-y
  2. http://www.iucnredlist.org/apps/redlist/details/164702/0
  3. http://www.iucnredlist.org/apps/redlist/details/61527/0
  4. http://www.iucnredlist.org/apps/redlist/details/164674/0

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