Podarcis tiliguerta

Podarcis tiliguerta

Taxonavigation

Taxonavigation: Lacertoidea

Superregnum: Eukaryota Cladus: Amorphea Cladus: Obazoa Cladus: Opisthokonta Cladus: Holozoa Cladus: Filozoa Cladus: Choanozoa Regnum: Animalia Subregnum: Eumetazoa Cladus: ParaHoxozoa Cladus: Bilateria Cladus: Nephrozoa Superphylum: Deuterostomia Phylum: Chordata Cladus: Olfactores Subphylum: Vertebrata Infraphylum: Gnathostomata Cladus: Eugnathostomata Cladus: Osteichthyes Cladus: Sarcopterygii Cladus: Rhipidistia Cladus: Tetrapodomorpha Cladus: Eotetrapodiformes Cladus: Elpistostegalia Cladus: Stegocephali Cladus: Tetrapoda Cladus: Reptiliomorpha Cladus: Amniota Cladus: Sauropsida Classis: Reptilia Cladus: Eureptilia Cladus: Romeriida Cladus: Diapsida Cladus: Neoreptilia Cladus: Parapleurota Cladus: Neodiapsida Cladus: Sauria Cladus: Lepidosauromorpha Superordo: Lepidosauria Ordo: Squamata Cladus: Unidentata Episquamata Subordo: Lacertoidea

Familia: Lacertidae
Subfamilia: Lacertinae
Tribus: Lacertini
Genus: Podarcis
Species: Podarcis tiliguerta
Subspecies (?11): P. t. contii – P. t. eiselti – P. t. granchii – P. t. grandisonae – P. t. maresi – P. t. pardii – P. t. ranzii – P. t. rodulphisimonii – P. t. sammichelii – P. t. tiliguerta – P. t. toro

Name

Podarcis tiliguerta (Gmelin, 1789)

• Type material: unknown.
• Type locality: “Sardiniae”.

Combinations

• Lacerta tiliguerta Gmelin, 1789: 1070 [original combination]
• Podarcis tiliguerta — Camerano, 1877: 83 [subsequent combination]

Native distribution areas

• France: Corsica and on most of the adjacent smaller islands.
• Italy: Sardinia and on most of the adjacent smaller islands.

References

Primary references

• Gmelin, J.F. 1789. Caroli a Linné systema naturae per regna tria naturae, secundum classes, ordines, genera, species, cum characteribus, differentiis, synonymis, locis. Tomus I, Pars III. Editio decima tertia, aucta, reformata. - pp. 1033–1516. Lipsiae. (Beer). DOI: 10.5962/bhl.title.545; BHL Reference page. 

Additional references

• Capula, M. 1996. Evolutionary genetics of the insular lacertid lizard Podarcis tiliguerta: genetic structure and population heterogeneity in a geographically fragmented species. Heredity 77(5): 518–529. DOI: 10.1038/hdy.1996.179 Reference page. 
• Harris, D.J., Pinho, C., Carretero, M.A., Corti, C. & Böhme, W. 2005. Determination of genetic diversity within the insular lizard Podarcis tiliguerta using mtDNA sequence data, with a reassessment of the phylogeny of Podarcis. Amphibia-Reptilia 26(3): 401–407. DOI: 10.1163/156853805774408676 Reference page. 
• Bruschi, S., Corti, C., Carretero, M.A., Harris, D.J., Lanza, B. & Leviton, A. 2006. Comments on the status of the Sardinian-Corsican lacertid lizard Podarcis tiliguerta. Proceedings of the California Academy of Sciences. Fourth Series 57(6): 225–245. BHL Reference page. 
• Rodríguez, V., Buades, J.M., Brown, R.P., Terrasa, B., Pérez-Mellado, V., Corti, C., Delaugerre, M., Castro, J.A., Picornell, A. & Ramón, M.M. 2017. Evolutionary history of Podarcis tiliguerta on Corsica and Sardinia. BMC Evolutionary Biology 17(27): 1–12. DOI: 10.1186/s12862-016-0860-4 Reference page. 
• Salvi, D., Pinho, C. & Harris, D.J. 2017. Digging up the roots of an insular hotspot of genetic diversity: decoupled mito-nuclear histories in the evolution of the Corsican-Sardinian endemic lizard Podarcis tiliguerta. BMC Evolutionary Biology 17(63): 1–22. DOI: 10.1186/s12862-017-0899-x Reference page. 

Links

• Uetz, P., Freed, P., Aguilar, R., F. Reyes, J. Kudera & Hošek, J. (eds.) 2026. Podarcis tiliguerta. The Reptile Database. Accessed on 17 November 2018.
• Cheylan, M., Corti, C., Sindaco, R. & Romano, A. 2009. IUCN: Podarcis tiliguerta  (Least Concern). The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2009: e.T157293A5072953. DOI: 10.2305/IUCN.UK.2009.RLTS.T157293A5072953.en

Vernacular names

• Deutsch: Tyrrhenische Mauereidechse
• English: Tyrrhenian Wall Lizard
• français: Lézard tiliguerta
• italiano: Lucertola tirrenica

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