Mesalina
{{Short description|Genus of lizards}}
{{Automatic taxobox
| image = Mesalina guttulata.jpg
| image_caption = Small-spotted lizard (Mesalina guttulata)
| taxon = Mesalina
| authority = Gray, 1838
| subdivision_ranks = Species
| subdivision = 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."Mesalina ". The Reptile Database. [http://reptile-database.reptarium.cz/advanced_search?genus=Mesalina&submit=Search Reptile-database.cz]
- Mesalina adramitana {{small|(Boulenger, 1917)}} – Hadramaut sand lizard
- Mesalina adrarensis {{small|Pizzigalli, Crochet, Geniez, Martínez-Freiría, Velo-Antón & Brito, 2021}}
- Mesalina arnoldi {{small|Sindaco, Simó-Riudalbas, Sacchi & Carranza, 2018}}
- Mesalina austroarabica {{small|Sindaco, Simó-Riudalbas, Sacchi & Carranza, 2018}}
- Mesalina ayunensis {{small|Arnold, 1980}} – Ayun sand lizard, Arnold's sand lizard
- Mesalina bahaeldini {{small|Segoli, Cohen & Y. Werner, 2002}}
- Mesalina balfouri {{small|(Blanford, 1881)}}
- Mesalina bernoullii {{small|(Schenkel, 1901)}} – Bernoulli's short-nosed desert lizard
- Mesalina brevirostris {{small|Blanford, 1874}} – Blanford's short-nosed desert lizard
- Mesalina ercolinii {{small|(Lanza & Poggesi, 1975)}}
- Mesalina guttulata {{small|(Lichtenstein, 1823)}} – small-spotted lizard
- Mesalina kuri {{small|Joger & Mayer, 2002}}
- Mesalina martini {{small|(Boulenger, 1897)}} – Martin's desert racer
- Mesalina microlepis {{small|(Angel, 1936)}} – small-scaled desert lizard
- Mesalina olivieri {{small|(Audouin, 1829)}} – Olivier's sand lizard
- Mesalina pasteuri {{small|(Bons, 1960)}} – Pasteur's lizard
- Mesalina rubropunctata {{small|(Lichtenstein, 1823)}} – red-spotted lizard
- Mesalina saudiarabica {{small|Moravec, Šmíd, Schmitz, Shobrak & Wilms, 2017}}
- Mesalina simoni {{small|(Boettger, 1881)}} – Simon's desert racer
- Mesalina watsonana {{small|(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
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Further reading
{{Wikispecies|Mesalina}}
- 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).
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Category:Taxa named by John Edward Gray
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