Mesalina
| Mesalina | |
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| Mesalina guttulata, small-spotted lizard | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Subphylum: | Vertebrata |
| Class: | Reptilia |
| Order: | Squamata |
| Suborder: | Lacertilia |
| Infraorder: | Scincomorpha |
| Family: | Lacertidae |
| Subfamily: | Lacertinae |
| Genus: | Mesalina Gray, 1838 |
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14 species, see text. | |
Mesalina is a genus of wall lizards of the family Lacertidae.
Species
The following 14 described species are recognized as being valid.[1]
- Mesalina adramitana (Boulenger, 1917)
- Mesalina ayunensis Arnold, 1980
- Mesalina bahaeldini Segoli, Cohen & Y. Werner, 2002
- Mesalina balfouri (Blanford, 1881)
- Mesalina brevirostris Blanford, 1874 – short-nosed lizard
- Mesalina ercolinii (Lanza & Poggesi, 1975)
- Mesalina guttulata (Lichtenstein, 1823) – small-spotted lizard
- Mesalina kuri Joger & Mayer, 2002
- Mesalina martini (Boulenger, 1897)
- Mesalina olivieri (Audouin, 1829)
- Mesalina pasteuri (Bons, 1960)
- Mesalina rubropunctata (Lichtenstein, 1823)
- Mesalina simoni (Boettger, 1881)
- Mesalina watsonana (Stoliczka, 1872) – Persian long-tailed lizard
Nota bene: A binomial authority in parentheses indicates that the species was originally described in a genus other than Mesalina.
References
- ↑ "Mesalina ". The Reptile Database. Reptile-database.cz
Further reading
- Gray JE. 1838. Catalogue of the Slender-tongued Saurians, with Descriptions of many new Genera and Species. Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. [Series 1] 1: 274-283, 388-394. (Mesalina, new genus, p. 282).
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