Biology:Mesalina
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Short description: Genus of lizards
| Mesalina | |
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| Small-spotted lizard (Mesalina guttulata) | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Reptilia |
| Order: | Squamata |
| Family: | Lacertidae |
| Subfamily: | Lacertinae |
| Genus: | Mesalina Gray, 1838 |
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20 species, see text. | |
Mesalina is a genus of wall lizards of the family Lacertidae.
Species
The following 20 described species are recognized as being valid.[1]
- Mesalina adramitana (Boulenger, 1917) – Hadramaut sand lizard
- Mesalina adrarensis Pizzigalli, Crochet, Geniez, Martínez-Freiría, Velo-Antón & Brito, 2021
- Mesalina arnoldi Sindaco, Simó-Riudalbas, Sacchi & Carranza, 2018
- Mesalina austroarabica Sindaco, Simó-Riudalbas, Sacchi & Carranza, 2018
- Mesalina ayunensis Arnold, 1980 – Ayun sand lizard, Arnold's sand lizard
- Mesalina bahaeldini Segoli, Cohen & Y. Werner, 2002
- Mesalina balfouri (Blanford, 1881)
- Mesalina bernoullii (Schenkel, 1901) – Bernoulli's short-nosed desert lizard
- Mesalina brevirostris Blanford, 1874 – Blanford's short-nosed desert lizard
- Mesalina ercolinii (Lanza & Poggesi, 1975)
- Mesalina guttulata (Lichtenstein, 1823) – small-spotted lizard
- Mesalina kuri Joger & Mayer, 2002
- Mesalina martini (Boulenger, 1897) – Martin's desert racer
- Mesalina microlepis (Angel, 1936) – small-scaled desert lizard
- Mesalina olivieri (Audouin, 1829) – Olivier's sand lizard
- Mesalina pasteuri (Bons, 1960) – Pasteur's lizard
- Mesalina rubropunctata (Lichtenstein, 1823) – red-spotted lizard
- Mesalina saudiarabica Moravec, Šmíd, Schmitz, Shobrak & Wilms, 2017
- Mesalina simoni (Boettger, 1881) – Simon's desert racer
- Mesalina watsonana (Stoliczka, 1872) – Persian long-tailed desert 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., [First Series ] 1: 274–283, 388–394. (Mesalina, new genus, p. 282).
Wikidata ☰ Q1061857 entry
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