Lacerta trilineata

Lacerta trilineata

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: Lacertinae
Genus: Lacerta
Species: Lacerta trilineata
Subspecies (4): L. t. hansschweizeri – L. t. major – L. t. polylepidota – L. t. trilineata

Name

Lacerta trilineata Bedriaga, 1886

• Type material: unknown.
• Type locality: “von der Balkan-Halbinsel aus über Klein-Asien und Syrien bis zum Libanon-Gebirge verbreitet”.

Combinations

• Lacerta viridis trilineata Bedriaga, 1886: 99 [original combination, as subspecies]
• Lacerta trilineata — Müller, 1939: 12 [subsequent combination, elevate to species]

References

Primary references

• Bedriaga, J. von 1886. Beiträge zur Kenntnis der Lacertiden-Familie (Lacerta, Algiroides, Tropidosaura, Zerzumia, Bettaia). Abhandlungen der Senckenbergischen Naturforschenden Gesellschaft 14: 17–444. BHL

Additional references

• Schmidtler, J.F. 1986. Orientalische Smaragdeidechsen: 2. Über Systematik und Synökologie von Lacerta trilineata, L. media und L. pamphylica. Salamandra 22(2/3): 126–146.
• Ahmadzadeh, F., Flecks, M., Rödder, D., Böhme, W., Ilgaz, Ç., Harris, D.J., Engler, J.O., Üzüm, N. & Carretero, M.A. 2013. Multiple dispersal out of Anatolia: biogeography and evolution of oriental green lizards. Biological Journal of the Linnean Society 110(2): 398–408. DOI: 10.1111/bij.12129 Reference page. 
• Sagonas, K., Poulakakis, N., Lymberakis, P., Parmakelis, A., Pafilis, P. & Valakos, E.D. 2014. Molecular systematics and historical biogeography of the green lizards (Lacerta) in Greece: Insights from mitochondrial and nuclear DNA. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 76: 144–154. DOI: 10.1016/j.ympev.2014.03.013 Reference page. 
• Kornilios, P., Thanou, E., Lymberakis, P., Ilgaz, Ç., Kumlutas, Y. & Leaché, A. 2019. Genome‐wide markers untangle the green‐lizard radiation in the Aegean Sea and support a rare biogeographical pattern. Journal of Biogeography 46(3): 552–567. DOI: 10.1111/jbi.13524 Reference page. 
• Kornilios, P., Thanou, E., Lymberakis, P., Ilgaz, Ç., Kumlutas, Y. & Leaché, A. 2020. A phylogenomic resolution for the taxonomy of Aegean green lizards. Zoologica Scripta 49(1): 14–27. DOI: 10.1111/zsc.12385 Reference page. 

Links

• Uetz, P. & Hallermann, J. 2024. Lacerta trilineata. The Reptile Database. Accessed on 23 September 2019.
• Böhme, W., Lymberakis, P., Ajtic, R., Tok, V., Ugurtas, I.H., Sevinç, M., Crochet, P.-A., Haxhiu, I., Nettmann, H.K., Sterijovski, B., Kumlutaş, Y. & Üzüm, N. 2009. IUCN: Lacerta trilineata  (Least Concern). The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2009: e.T61529A12506037. DOI: 10.2305/IUCN.UK.2009.RLTS.T61529A12506037.en

Vernacular names

English: Balkan Green Lizard

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