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Genus of lizards
Mesalina is a
genus of wall lizards of the
family
Lacertidae .
Species
The following 20 described
species are recognized as being valid.
[1]
Mesalina adramitana (
Boulenger , 1917) – Hadramaut sand lizard
Mesalina adrarensis
Pizzigalli ,
Crochet ,
Geniez ,
Martínez-Freiría ,
Velo-Antón &
Brito , 2021
Mesalina arnoldi
Sindaco ,
Simó-Riudalbas ,
Sacchi &
Carranza , 2018
Mesalina austroarabica Sindaco, Simó-Riudalbas, Sacchi & Carranza, 2018
Mesalina ayunensis
Arnold , 1980 – Ayun sand lizard, Arnold's sand lizard
Mesalina bahaeldini
Segoli ,
Cohen &
Y. Werner , 2002
Mesalina balfouri (
Blanford , 1881)
Mesalina bernoullii (
Schenkel , 1901) – Bernoulli's short-nosed desert lizard
Mesalina brevirostris Blanford, 1874 – Blanford's short-nosed desert lizard
Mesalina ercolinii (
Lanza &
Poggesi , 1975)
Mesalina guttulata (
Lichtenstein , 1823) – small-spotted lizard
Mesalina kuri
Joger &
Mayer , 2002
Mesalina martini (Boulenger, 1897) – Martin's desert racer
Mesalina microlepis (
Angel , 1936) – small-scaled desert lizard
Mesalina olivieri (
Audouin , 1829) – Olivier's sand lizard
Mesalina pasteuri (
Bons , 1960) – Pasteur's lizard
Mesalina rubropunctata (Lichtenstein, 1823) – red-spotted lizard
Mesalina saudiarabica
Moravec ,
Šmíd ,
Schmitz ,
Shobrak &
Wilms , 2017
Mesalina simoni (
Boettger , 1881) – Simon's desert racer
Mesalina watsonana (
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
Further reading
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).