Mesalina Explained

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 – Hadramaut sand lizard
• Mesalina adrarensis
• Mesalina arnoldi
• Mesalina austroarabica
• Mesalina ayunensis – Ayun sand lizard, Arnold's sand lizard
• Mesalina bahaeldini
• Mesalina balfouri
• Mesalina bernoullii – Bernoulli's short-nosed desert lizard
• Mesalina brevirostris – Blanford's short-nosed desert lizard
• Mesalina ercolinii
• Mesalina guttulata – small-spotted lizard
• Mesalina kuri
• Mesalina martini – Martin's desert racer
• Mesalina microlepis – small-scaled desert lizard
• Mesalina olivieri – Olivier's sand lizard
• Mesalina pasteuri – Pasteur's lizard
• Mesalina rubropunctata – red-spotted lizard
• Mesalina saudiarabica
• Mesalina simoni – Simon's desert racer
• Mesalina watsonana – 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.

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).

Notes and References

1. "Mesalina ". The Reptile Database. Reptile-database.cz