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Lacerta (genus)

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Genus of lizards

For the constellation, seeLacerta.

Lacerta Temporal range:Miocene—Present,15–0 Ma PreꞒ Ꞓ O S D C P T J K Pg N

Sand lizard (Lacerta agilis)
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Reptilia
Order:	Squamata
Family:	Lacertidae
Tribe:	Lacertini
Genus:	Lacerta Linnaeus,1758
Type species
Lacerta agilis Linnaeus,1758
Species
Ten, seetext.

Modern range ofLacerta species: L. agilis L. bilineata L. citrovittata L. diplochondrodes L. media L. pamphylica L. schreiberi L. strigata L. trilineata L. viridis

Lacerta is agenus oflizards of thefamily Lacertidae.

Taxonomy

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Lacerta was a fairly diverse genus containing around 40 species, until it was split into ninegenera in 2007 byArnold, Arribas & Carranza.^[1]

Fossil record

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The earliest known members of the genusLacerta are known from earlyMiocene epoch fossils indistinguishable in anatomy from the modern green lizards such asLacerta viridis.^[2] Some fossil species from the ice-agemediterranean, such asLacerta siculimelitensis, reached especially large sizes.^[3]

Species

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The genusLacerta contains the following species.^[4]


Image	Name	Distribution
	Lacerta agilis – sand lizard
	Lacerta bilineata – western green lizard
	Lacerta citrovittata – Tinos green lizard	Greece
	Lacerta diplochondrodes – Rhodos green lizard	Greece
	Lacerta media	Georgia,Armenia,Azerbaijan,Iran, Turkey,Israel,Jordan,Syria,Lebanon andRussia
	Lacerta pamphylica	Turkey
	Lacerta schreiberi – Iberian emerald lizard
	Lacerta strigata – Caucasus emerald lizard	Georgia, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Turkmenistan, Turkey and Iran
	Lacerta trilineata – Balkan green lizard
	Lacerta viridis – European green lizard

Some species formerly inLacerta

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Arranged alphabetically byspecific 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^[5]
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
Geosaurus giganteus
Hellenolacerta graeca – Greek rock lizard
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
Dinarolacerta mosorensis - Mosor rock lizard
Podarcis muralis – common wall lizard
Anatololacerta oertzeni^[6]
Dalmatolacerta oxycephala – sharp-snouted rock lizard
Parvilacerta parva – dwarf lizard^[7]
Darevskia steineri
Zootoca vivipara – viviparous lizard
Iranolacerta zagrosica

References

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^Arnold, E. Nicholas; Arribas, Oscar; Carranza, Salvador (2007)."Systematics of the Palaearctic and Oriental lizard tribe Lacertini (Squamata: Lacertidae: Lacertinae), with descriptions of eight new genera"(PDF).Zootaxa.1430. Auckland, New Zealand: Magnolia Press:1–86.doi:10.11646/zootaxa.1430.1.1.ISBN 978-1-86977-097-6. Archived fromthe original(PDF) on 6 May 2021. Retrieved12 July 2017.
^Čerňanský A. 2010. "Earliest world record of green lizards (Lacertilia, Lacertidae) from the Lower Miocene of Central Europe".Biologia65 (4): 737-741.doi:10.2478/s11756-010-0066-y
^Böhme, Wolfgang; Zammit-Maempel, George (1982)."Lacerta siculimelitensis sp. n. (Sauria: Lacertidae), a giant lizard from the Late Pleistocene of Malta".Amphibia-Reptilia.3 (2):257–268.doi:10.1163/156853882X00473. Retrieved4 November 2023.
^"Lacerta ". The Reptile Database. www.reptile-database.org.
^Tuniyev, B.; Ananjeva, N.B.; Agasyan, A.; Orlov, N.L.; Tuniyev, S.; Anderson, S. (2017) [errata version of 2009 assessment]."Darevskia chlorogaster".IUCN Red List of Threatened Species.2009: e.T164702A114559582.doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2009.RLTS.T164702A5919117.en. Retrieved16 January 2020.
^Wolfgang Böhme; Petros Lymberakis; Varol Tok; Ismail H. Ugurtas; Murat Sevinç; Pierre-André Crochet; Yakup Kaska; Yusuf Kumlutaş; Uğur Kaya; Aziz Avci; Nazan Üzüm; Can Yeniyurt; Ferdi Akarsu; Petros Lymberakis (2009)."Anatololacerta oertzeni".IUCN Red List of Threatened Species.2009: e.T61527A12504829.doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2009.RLTS.T61527A12504829.en. Retrieved16 January 2020.
^Varol Tok; Ishmail Ugurtas; Murat Sevinç; Wolfgang Böhme; Pierre-André Crochet; Ferdi Akarsu (2009)."Parvilacerta parva".IUCN Red List of Threatened Species.2009: e.T164674A5917051.doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2009.RLTS.T164674A5917051.en. Retrieved16 January 2020.

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Taxonomy

Fossil record

Species

Some species formerly inLacerta

References

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