Boettger's lizard

Boettger's lizard
Young female of
Gallotia caesaris gomerae
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Reptilia
Order: Squamata
Suborder: Lacertilia
Family: Lacertidae
Subfamily: Gallotiinae
Genus: Gallotia
Species: G. caesaris
Binomial name
Gallotia caesaris
(Lehrs, 1914)

The Boettger's lizard (Gallotia caesaris) is a lacertid (wall lizard) endemic to two of the western Canary Islands, El Hierro and La Gomera. On the neighboring islands Tenerife and La Palma it is replaced by its close relative Gallotia galloti (Maca-Meyer et al. 2003). It has been introduced by humans on the Portuguese island of Madeira.

There are two subspecies:

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