Lacerta (genus)
For the constellation, see Lacerta.
| Lacerta Temporal range: Miocene—Present, 15–0Ma | |
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| 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 | |
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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
- Sand lizard (L. agilis)
- Anatolian rock lizard (L. anatolica)
- Atlas dwarf lizard (Andreansky's lizard, L. andreanskyi)
- Western green lizard (L. bilineata)
- Anatolian lizard (L. cappadocica)
- Green-bellied lizard (L. chlorogaster or Darevskia chlorogaster)[2]
- L. cyanisparsa
- Omman's lizard (L. cyanura)
- Danford's lizard (L. danfordi)
- Elburs lizard (L. defilippii)
- L. dryada [Darevskia dryada (Darevsky & Tuniyev, 1997)]
- Madeiran wall lizard (L. dugesii)
- Greek rock lizard (L. graeca)
- L. herseyi
- Horvath's rock lizard (L. horvathi)
- Jayakar lizard (L. jayakari)
- L. kulzeri
- Lebanon lizard (Lacerta laevis)
- L. media
- L. oertzeni (also Anatololacerta oertzeni)[3]
- Sharp-snouted rock lizard (L. oxycephala)
- L. pamphylica
- Dwarf lizard (L. parva or Parvilacerta parva)[4]
- Iberian emerald lizard (L. schreiberi)
- L. steineri
- Caucasus emerald lizard (L. strigata)
- Balkan green lizard or Balkan emerald lizard (L. trilineata)
- European green lizard (L. viridis)
- L. zagrosica
Formerly Lacerta
- Bedriaga's rock lizard (Archaeolacerta bedriagae)
- Mosor rock lizard (A. mosorensis)
- Aran rock lizard (Iberolacerta aranica)
- Aurelio's rock lizard (I. aurelioi)
- Pyrenean rock lizard (I. bonnali)
- Iberian rock lizard (I. monticola)
- Common wall lizard (Podarcis muralis)
- Ocellated lizard or foot lizard (Timon lepidus, formerly L. lepida)
- Viviparous lizard (Zootoca vivipara)
References
- ↑ 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
- ↑ http://www.iucnredlist.org/apps/redlist/details/164702/0
- ↑ http://www.iucnredlist.org/apps/redlist/details/61527/0
- ↑ http://www.iucnredlist.org/apps/redlist/details/164674/0