Lacerta (genus)
For the constellation, see Lacerta.
| Lacerta Temporal range: Miocene—Present, 15–0 Ma | |
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| Lacerta agilis, sand lizard | |
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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Nine, see text. | |
Lacerta is a genus of lizards of the family Lacertidae.
Taxonomy
Lacerta was a fairly diverse genus containing around 40 species, until it was "split" into nine genera in 2007 by Arnold, Arribas & Carranza.
Fossil record
The earliest known members of the genus Lacerta are known from early Miocene epoch fossils indistinguishable in anatomy from the modern green lizards such as Lacerta viridis.[1]
Species
The genus Lacerta contains the following species.[2]
- Lacerta agilis Linnaeus, 1758 – sand lizard
- Lacerta bilineata Daudin, 1802 – western green lizard
- Lacerta media Lantz & Cyrén, 1920
- Lacerta mostoufi Baloutch, 1976
- Lacerta pamphylica Schmidtler, 1975
- Lacerta schreiberi Bedriaga, 1878 – Iberian emerald lizard
- Lacerta strigata Eichwald, 1831 – Caucasus emerald lizard
- Lacerta trilineata Bedriaga, 1886 - Balkan green lizard, Balkan emerald lizard
- Lacerta viridis (Laurenti, 1768) – European green lizard
Some species formerly in Lacerta
Arranged alphabetically by specific name:
- Anatololacerta anatolica – Anatolian rock lizard
- Atlantolacerta andreanskyi – Atlas dwarf lizard, Andreansky's lizard
- Iberolacerta aranica – Aran rock lizard
- Iberolacerta aurelioi – Aurelio's rock lizard
- Archaeolacerta bedriagae – Bedriaga's rock lizard
- Iberolacerta bonnali – Pyrenean rock lizard
- Apathya cappadocica – Anatolian lizard
- Darevskia chlorogaster – Green-bellied lizard[3]
- Phoenicolacerta cyanisparsa
- Omanosaura cyanura – blue-tailed Oman lizard
- Anatololacerta danfordi – Danford's lizard
- Darevskia defilippii – Elburs lizard
- Darevskia dryada (Darevsky & Tuniyev, 1997)
- Teira dugesii – Madeiran wall lizard
- Hellenolacerta graeca – Greek rock lizard
- (Lacerta herseyi = Zootoca vivipara)
- Iberolacerta horvathi – Horvath's rock lizard
- Omanosaura jayakari – Jayakar's lizard
- Phoenicolacerta kulzeri
- Phoenicolacerta laevis – Lebanon lizard
- Timon lepidus – ocellated lizard, foot lizard
- Iberolacerta monticola – Iberian rock lizard
- Archaeolacerta mosorensis - Mosor rock lizard
- Podarcis muralis – common wall lizard
- Anatololacerta oertzeni[4]
- Dalmatolacerta oxycephala – sharp-snouted rock lizard
- Parvilacerta parva – dwarf lizard[5]
- Darevskia steineri
- Zootoca vivipara – viviparous lizard
- Iranolacerta zagrosica
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
- ↑ "Lacerta ". The Reptile Database. ww.reptile-database.org.
- ↑ 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
Further reading
- Arnold EN, Arribas OJ, Carranza S. 2007. "Systematics of the Palaearctic and Oriental lizard tribe Lacertini (Squamata: Lacertidae: Lacertinae), with descriptions of eight new genera". Zootaxa 1430: 1-86.
- Linnaeus C. 1758. Systema naturae per regna tria naturae, secundum classes, ordines, genera, species, cum characteribus, diferentiis, synonymis, locis. Tomus I. Editio Decima, Reformata. Stockholm: L. Salvius. 824 pp. (Lacerta, new genus, p. 200). (in Latin).
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