Mesalina watsonana

Mesalina watsonana

Taxonavigation

Taxonavigation: Lacertibaenia

Superregnum: Eukaryota Cladus: Unikonta Cladus: Opisthokonta Cladus: Holozoa Regnum: Animalia Subregnum: Eumetazoa Cladus: Bilateria Cladus: Nephrozoa Superphylum: Deuterostomia Phylum: Chordata Subphylum: Vertebrata Infraphylum: Gnathostomata Megaclassis: Osteichthyes Cladus: Sarcopterygii Cladus: Rhipidistia Cladus: Tetrapodomorpha Cladus: Eotetrapodiformes Cladus: Elpistostegalia Superclassis: Tetrapoda Cladus: Reptiliomorpha Cladus: Amniota Classis: Reptilia Cladus: Eureptilia Cladus: Romeriida Subclassis: Diapsida Cladus: Sauria Infraclassis: Lepidosauromorpha Superordo: Lepidosauria Ordo: Squamata Cladus: Unidentata Episquamata Subordo: Lacertoidea Infraordo: Lacertibaenia

Familia: Lacertidae
Subfamilia: Lacertinae
Genus: Mesalina
Species: Mesalina watsonana

Name

• Mesalina watsonana (Stoliczka, 1872)

Syntypes: BMNH 74.4.29.1436/1946.8.7.75, ZSI 4929, 5050, 5223-5225, NHMW.

Type locality: “right bank of the Indus between Karachi and Sakkar, Sind”.

Combinations

• Eremias (Mesalina) watsonana — Stoliczka, 1872: 86 [original combination]
• Mesalina watsonana — Murray, 1884: 349 [subsequent combination]

Synonyms

• Mesalina pardaloides Blanford, 1874: 32

Syntypes: ZSI.

Type locality: “insula Henjam seu Angam dicta in sinu Persico”.

References

Primary references

• Stoliczka, F. 1872. Notes on reptiles collected by surgeon F. Day in Sind. Proceedings of the Asiatic Society of Bengal 1872: 85–92. BHL
• Blanford, W.T. 1874. Descriptions of new Reptilia and Amphibia from Persia and Baluchistán. Annals and Magazine of Natural History Series 4 14(79): 31–35. DOI: 10.1080/00222937408680916 BHL Reference page. 

Links

• Uetz, P. & Hallermann, J. 2024. Mesalina watsonana. The Reptile Database. Accessed on 15 May 2019.

Vernacular names

English: Persian Long-Tailed Desert Lizard