Lacerta (genus)
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Lacerta is a genus of lizards of the family Lacertidae.
Taxonomy
Lacerta was a fairly diverse genus containing around 40 species, until it was split into nine genera in 2007 by Arnold, Arribas & Carranza.<ref name="Arnold2007">Template:Cite journal</ref>
Fossil record
The earliest known members of the genus Lacerta are known from early Miocene epoch fossils indistinguishable in anatomy from the modern green lizards such as Lacerta viridis.<ref>Čerňanský A. 2010. "Earliest world record of green lizards (Lacertilia, Lacertidae) from the Lower Miocene of Central Europe". Biologia 65 (4): 737-741. {{#invoke:CS1 identifiers|main|_template=doi}}</ref> Some fossil species from the ice-age mediterranean, such as Lacerta siculimelitensis, reached especially large sizes.<ref>Template:Cite journal</ref>
Species
The genus Lacerta contains the following species.<ref>"Lacerta ". The Reptile Database. www.reptile-database.org.</ref>
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| File:Lacerta agilis male 2014 G1.jpg | Lacerta agilis – sand lizard | File:LacertaAgilisIUCN.svg |
| File:Lacerta bilineata near Entella river 86.jpg | Lacerta bilineata – western green lizard | File:Mapa Lacerta bilineata.png |
| Lacerta citrovittata – Tinos green lizard | Greece | |
| Lacerta diplochondrodes – Rhodos green lizard | Greece | |
| File:Lacerta media..jpg | Lacerta media | Georgia, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Iran, |
| File:Eidechse (18293256746).jpg | Lacerta pamphylica | Turkey |
| File:Lacerta schreiberi 02 by-dpc.jpg | Lacerta schreiberi – Iberian emerald lizard | 
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| Lacerta strigata – Caucasus emerald lizard | Georgia, Armenia, Azerbaijan,
Turkmenistan, Turkey and Iran | |
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Lacerta trilineata – Balkan green lizard | 
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Lacerta viridis – European green lizard | 
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Some species formerly in Lacerta
Arranged alphabetically by specific name:
- Anatololacerta anatolica – Anatolian rock lizard
- Atlantolacerta andreanskyi – Atlas dwarf lizard, Andreansky's lizard
- Iberolacerta aranica – Aran rock lizard
- Iberolacerta aurelioi – Aurelio's rock lizard
- Archaeolacerta bedriagae – Bedriaga's rock lizard
- Iberolacerta bonnali – Pyrenean rock lizard
- Apathya cappadocica – Anatolian lizard
- Darevskia chlorogaster – Green-bellied lizard<ref>Template:Cite iucn</ref>
- Phoenicolacerta cyanisparsa
- Omanosaura cyanura – blue-tailed Oman lizard
- Anatololacerta danfordi – Danford's lizard
- Darevskia defilippii – Elburs lizard
- Darevskia dryada Template:Small
- Teira dugesii – Madeiran wall lizard
- Geosaurus giganteus
- Hellenolacerta graeca – Greek rock lizard
- Iberolacerta horvathi – Horvath's rock lizard
- Omanosaura jayakari – Jayakar's lizard
- Phoenicolacerta kulzeri
- Phoenicolacerta laevis – Lebanon lizard
- Timon lepidus – ocellated lizard, foot lizard
- Iberolacerta monticola – Iberian rock lizard
- Dinarolacerta mosorensis - Mosor rock lizard
- Podarcis muralis – common wall lizard
- Anatololacerta oertzeni<ref>Template:Cite iucn</ref>
- Dalmatolacerta oxycephala – sharp-snouted rock lizard
- Parvilacerta parva – dwarf lizard<ref>Template:Cite iucn</ref>
- Darevskia steineri
- Zootoca vivipara – viviparous lizard
- Iranolacerta zagrosica
References
Further reading
- Arnold EN, Arribas OJ, Carranza S. 2007. "Systematics of the Palaearctic and Oriental lizard tribe Lacertini (Squamata: Lacertidae: Lacertinae), with descriptions of eight new genera". Zootaxa 1430: 1-86.
- Linnaeus C. 1758. Systema naturae per regna tria naturae, secundum classes, ordines, genera, species, cum characteribus, differentiis, synonymis, locis. Tomus I. Editio Decima, Reformata. Stockholm: L. Salvius. 824 pp. (Lacerta, new genus, p. 200). (in Latin).