Boettger's lizard

The specific name, caesaris, is in honor of German malacologist Caesar Rudolf Boettger, who was a nephew of German herpetologist Oskar Boettger.Beolens B, Watkins M, Grayson M (2011). The Eponym Dictionary of Reptiles. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. xiii + 296 pp. {{ISBN|978-1-4214-0135-5}}. (Gallotia caesaris, p. 29).

G. caesaris is native to two of the western Canary Islands, El Hierro and La Gomera.{{EMBL species|genus=Gallotia|species=caesaris}} www.reptile-database.org. On the neighboring islands Tenerife and La Palma it is replaced by its close relative Gallotia galloti.Maca-Meyer et al. (2003). G. caesaris has been introduced by humans on the Portuguese island of Madeira.

The preferred natural habitats of G. caesaris are rocky areas, shrubland, and forest, at altitudes from sea level to {{convert|1,500|m|ft|abbr=on}}.Miras et al. (2009).

G. caesaris is oviparous. A sexually mature female may lay three clutches per year, and each clutch may contain 1–5 eggs.

Two subspecies are recognized as being valid, including the nominotypical subspecies:

• Gallotia caesaris caesaris {{small|(Lehrs, 1914)}} – El Hierro
• Gallotia caesaris gomerae {{small|(C. Boettger & L. Müller, 1914)}} – La Gomera

Nota bene: A trinomial authority in parentheses indicates that the subspecies was originally described in a genus other than Gallotia.

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• Bannert B (1998). "Zum Fortpflanzungsbiologie der Halsbandeidechsen von Madeira und den Kanarischen Inseln in Gefangenschaft ". Salamandra 34 (4): 289–300. (Gallotia caesaris, restored to species status). (in German, with an abstract in English).
• Boettger CR, Müller L (1914). "Preliminary Notes on the Local Races of some Canarian Lizards". Annals and Magazine of Natural History, Eighth Series 14: 67–78. ("Lacerta galloti cæsaris ", new status, p. 74).
• Lehrs P (1914). "Description of a new lizard from the Canary Islands". Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1914: 681–684. ("Lacerta cæsaris ", new species).
• Sindaco R, Jeremčenko VK (2008). The Reptiles of the Western Palearctic. 1. Annotated Checklist and Distributional Atlas of the Turtles, Crocodiles, Amphisbaenians and Lizards of Europe, North Africa, Middle East and Central Asia. (Monographs of the Societas Herpetologica Italica). Latina, Italy: Edizioni Belvedere. 580 pp. {{ISBN|978-88-89504-14-7}}.

• de.Wikipedia contributors (2006): [http://de.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Kleine_Kanareneidechse&oldid=13783937 Kleine Kanareneidechse]. Wikipedia, Die freie Enzyklopädie. Version of 12:35, 17. Feb. 2006. Retrieved 18:53, May 18, 2006.
• Maca-Meyer N, Carranza S, Rando JC, Arnold EN, Cabrera VM (2003). "Status and relationships of the extinct giant Canary Island lizard Gallotia goliath (Reptilia: Lacertidae), assessed using ancient mtDNA from its mummified remains". Biological Journal of the Linnean Society 80 (4): 659–670. {{doi|10.1111/j.1095-8312.2003.00265.x}} (HTML abstract).
• {{cite iucn |author=Jose Antonio Mateo Miras, Valentin Pérez-Mellado, Paulo Sá-Sousa, Iñigo Martínez-Solano |date=2009 |title=Gallotia caesaris |volume=2009 |page=e.T61503A12493473 |doi=10.2305/IUCN.UK.2009.RLTS.T61503A12493473.en |access-date=12 November 2021}} Database entry includes a range map and a brief justification of why this species is of least concern.

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• lacerta.de: [https://web.archive.org/web/20070927230427/http://www.lacerta.de/Seiten_Bildarchiv/Gallotia_caesaris_caesaris_%28Bilder%29.html Gallotia caesaris caesaris] image gallery. Retrieved 2007-FEB-25.
• lacerta.de: [https://web.archive.org/web/20070927230434/http://www.lacerta.de/Seiten_Bildarchiv/Gallotia_caesaris_gomerae_%28Bilder%29.html Gallotia caesaris gomerae] image gallery. Retrieved 2007-FEB-25.

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Category:Gallotia

Category:Reptiles of the Canary Islands

Category:Reptiles described in 1914

Category:Taxa named by Philipp Lehrs

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