Mesalina
Taxonavigation
[edit]| Taxonavigation: Lacertoidea |
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Superregnum: Eukaryota |
Familia: Lacertidae
Subfamilia: Lacertinae
Tribus: Eremiadini
Genus: Mesalina
Species (26):
M. adramitana –
M. adrarensis –
M. ardestanica –
M. arnoldi –
M. austroarabica –
M. ayunensis –
M. bahaeldini –
M. balfouri –
M. bardaskanensis –
M. bernoullii –
M. brevirostris –
M. ercolinii –
M. esfarayensis –
M. guttulata –
M. halilica –
M. kermanensis –
M. khuzestanensis –
M. kuri –
M. martini –
M. microlepis –
M. olivieri –
M. pasteuri –
M. rubropunctata –
M. saudiarabica –
M. simoni –
M. watsonana
Name
[edit]- Type species: Mesalina lichtensteinii Gray, 1838, by monotypy.
Synonyms
[edit]- Dioptroblepharis Fitzinger, 1843: 21
- Type species: Eremias pardalis Duméril & Bibron, 1839, by original designation.
- Tachyscelis Fitzinger, 1843: 21
- Type species: Lacerta rubropunctata Lichtenstein, 1823, by original designation.
References
[edit]Primary references
[edit]- Gray, J.E. 1838. Catalogue of the slender-tongued saurians, with descriptions of many new genera and species. Part 1. Annals of Natural History. Series 1 1(4): 274–283. DOI: 10.1080/00222933809512291
; BHL Reference page. - Fitzinger, L. 1843. Systema Reptilium. Fasciculus primus. Amblyglossae. Braumüller et Seidel: Wien. vi + 106 pp. BHL Reference page.
Additional references
[edit]- Joger, U. & Mayer, W. 2002. A new species of Mesalina (Reptilia: Lacertidae) from Abd al-Kuri, Socotra Archipelago, Yemen, and a preliminary molecular phylogeny for the genus Mesalina. Fauna of Arabia 19: 497–505. Reference page.
- Kapli, P., Lymberakis, P., Poulakakis, N., Mantziou, G., Parmakelis, A. & Mylonas, M. 2008. Molecular phylogeny of three Mesalina (Reptilia: Lacertidae) species (M. guttulata, M. brevirostris and M. bahaeldini) from North Africa and the Middle East: Another case of paraphyly? Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 49(1): 102–110. DOI: 10.1016/j.ympev.2008.06.016 Reference page.
- Šmíd, J. & Frynta, D. 2012. Genetic variability of Mesalina watsonana (Reptilia: Lacertidae) on the Iranian plateau and its phylogenetic and biogeographic affinities as inferred from mtDNA sequences. Acta Herpetologica 7(1): 139–153. DOI: 10.13128/Acta_Herpetol-10193 Reference page.
- Kapli, P., Lymberakis, P., Crochet, P.-A., Geniez, P., Brito, J.C., Almutairi, M., Ahmadzadeh, F., Schmitz, A., Wilms, T., Pouyani, N.R. & Poulakakis, N. 2015. Historical biogeography of the lacertid lizard Mesalina in North Africa and the Middle East. Journal of Biogeography 42(2): 267–279. DOI: 10.1111/jbi.12420 Reference page.
- Hosseinian-Yousefkhani, S.S., Marmol Marin, G.M.D., Rastegar-Pouyani, N. & Rastegar-Pouyani, E. 2015. A Bibliographic Recompilation of the Genus Mesalina Gray, 1838 (Sauria: Lacertidae) with a Key to the Species. Russian Journal of Herpetology 22(1): 23–34. Reference page.
- Šmíd, J., Moravec, J., Gvoždík, V., Štundl, J., Frynta, D., Lymberakis P., Kapli, P., Wilms, T., Schmitz, A., Shobrak, M., Yousefkhani, S.H., Rastegar-Pouyani, E., Castilla, A.M., Els, J. & Mayer, W. 2017. Cutting the Gordian Knot: Phylogenetic and ecological diversification of the Mesalina brevirostris species complex (Squamata, Lacertidae). Zoologica Scripta 46(6): 649–664. DOI: 10.1111/zsc.12254 Reference page.
- Sindaco, R., Simó-Riudalbas, M., Sacchi, R. & Carranza, S. 2018. Systematics of the Mesalina guttulata species complex (Squamata: Lacertidae) from Arabia with the description of two new species. Zootaxa 4429(3): 513–547. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4429.3.4 Reference page.
- Simó-Riudalbas, M., Tamar, K., Šmíd, J., Misti, P., Sindaco, R., Chirio, L. & Carranza, S. 2019. Biogeography of Mesalina (Reptilia: Lacertidae), with special emphasis on the Mesalina adramitana group from Arabia and the Socotra Archipelago. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 137: 300–312. DOI: 10.1016/j.ympev.2019.04.023 Reference page.
- Pizzigalli, C., Crochet, P.-A., Geniez, P., Martínez-Freiría, F., Velo-Antón, G. & Brito, J.C. 2021. Phylogeographic diversification of the Mesalina olivieri species complex (Squamata: Lacertidae) with the description of a new species and a new subspecies endemic from North West Africa. Journal of Zoological Systematics and Evolutionary Research 59(8): 2321–2349. DOI: 10.1111/jzs.12516 Reference page.
Links
[edit]- Uetz, P., Freed, P., Aguilar, R., Reyes, F., Kudera, J. & Hošek, J. (eds.) 2025. Mesalina . The Reptile Database. Accessed on 1 October 2024.
Vernacular names
[edit]- English: Afro-Asian Desert Lizards
- русский: афроазиатские ящурки