Gallotiinae

Gallotia caesaris

Taxonavigation

Taxonavigation: Lacertibaenia

Superregnum: Eukaryota Cladus: Unikonta Cladus: Opisthokonta Cladus: Holozoa Regnum: Animalia Subregnum: Eumetazoa Cladus: Bilateria Cladus: Nephrozoa Superphylum: Deuterostomia Phylum: Chordata Subphylum: Vertebrata Infraphylum: Gnathostomata Megaclassis: Osteichthyes Cladus: Sarcopterygii Cladus: Rhipidistia Cladus: Tetrapodomorpha Cladus: Eotetrapodiformes Cladus: Elpistostegalia Superclassis: Tetrapoda Cladus: Reptiliomorpha Cladus: Amniota Classis: Reptilia Cladus: Eureptilia Cladus: Romeriida Subclassis: Diapsida Cladus: Sauria Infraclassis: Lepidosauromorpha Superordo: Lepidosauria Ordo: Squamata Cladus: Unidentata Episquamata Subordo: Lacertoidea Infraordo: Lacertibaenia

Familia: Lacertidae
Subfamilia: Gallotiinae
Genera (2 + †2): Gallotia – †Janosikia – Psammodromus – †Pseudeumeces

Name

Gallotiinae Cano, Báez, López-Jurado & Ortega, 1984

• Type genus: Gallotia Boulenger, 1916, by monotypy.

Synonymy

• Gallotiidae Cano, Báez, López-Jurado & Ortega, 1984: 346 [original rank as familia]
• Gallotiinae — Mayer & Benyr, 1994: 640 [subsequent rank, reduced to subfamilia]

References

Primary references

• Cano, J., Báez, M., López-Jurado, L.F. & Ortega, G. 1984. Karyotype and chromosome structure in the lizard, Gallotia galloti in the Canary Islands. Journal of Herpetology 18(3): 344–346. DOI: 10.2307/1564092 Reference page. 
• Mayer, W. & Benyr, G. 1994. Albumin-Evolution und Phylogenese in der Familie Lacertidae (Reptilia: Sauria). Annalen des Naturhistorischen Museums in Wien. Serie B für Botanik und Zoologie 96(Bd.): 621–648. JSTOR Reference page. 

Additional references

• Harris, D.J., Arnold, E.N. & Thomas, R.H. 1998. Relationships of lacertid lizards (Reptilia: Lacertidae) estimated from mitochondrial DNA sequences and morphology. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 265(1409): 1939–1948. DOI: 10.1098/rspb.1998.0524 Reference page. 
• Arnold, E.N., Arribas, O. & 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. Abstract & excerpt. Reference page. 
• Cox, S.C., Carranza, S. & Brown, R.P. 2010. Divergence times and colonization of the Canary Islands by Gallotia lizards. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 56(2): 747–757. DOI: 10.1016/j.ympev.2010.03.020 Reference page. 
• Hipsley, C.A., Miles, D.B. & Müller, J. 2014. Morphological disparity opposes latitudinal diversity gradient in lacertid lizards. Biology Letters 10(5): 20140101. DOI: 10.1098/rsbl.2014.0101 Reference page. 
• Čerňanský, A., Klembara, J. & Smith, K.T. 2016. Fossil lizard from central Europe resolves the origin of large body size and herbivory in giant Canary Island lacertids. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 176(4): 861–877. DOI: 10.1111/zoj.12340 Reference page.