Phoenicolacerta

Genus of lizards

Phoenicolacerta
Troodos lizard
Phoenicolacerta troodica
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Reptilia
Order: Squamata
Family: Lacertidae
Genus: Phoenicolacerta
Arnold, Arribas & Carranza, 2007
Species

Four, see text.

Phoenicolacerta is a genus of wall lizards of the family Lacertidae.[1] The genus was described in 2007.[2]

Species

  • Phoenicolacerta cyanisparsa (J.F. Schmidtler & Bischoff, 1999)
  • Phoenicolacerta kulzeri (L. Müller & Wettstein, 1933)
  • Phoenicolacerta laevis (Gray, 1838)
  • Phoenicolacerta troodica (F. Werner, 1936)

Nota bene: A binomial authority in parentheses indicates that the species was originally described in a genus other than Phoenicolacerta.

References

  1. ^ Phoenicolacerta. The Reptile Database. www.reptile-database.org.
  2. ^ Arnold, E. Nicholas; Arribas, Oscar; Carranza, Salvador (22 March 2007). "Systematics of the Palaearctic and Oriental lizard tribe Lacertini (Squamata: Lacertidae: Lacertinae), with descriptions of eight new genera". Zootaxa. 1430: 1–86. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.1430.1.1. (Phoenicolacerta, new genus, p. 51).
Taxon identifiers
Phoenicolacerta


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