The small-spotted lizard (''Mesalina guttulata'') is a species of
lizard
Lizards are a widespread group of squamate reptiles, with over 7,000 species, ranging across all continents except Antarctica, as well as most oceanic island chains. The group is paraphyletic since it excludes the snakes and Amphisbaenia alt ...
. It is found in the following countries:
Morocco,
Algeria,
Tunisia,
Libya,
Egypt,
Sinai
Sinai commonly refers to:
* Sinai Peninsula, Egypt
* Mount Sinai, a mountain in the Sinai Peninsula, Egypt
* Biblical Mount Sinai, the site in the Bible where Moses received the Law of God
Sinai may also refer to:
* Sinai, South Dakota, a place ...
,
Israel,
Saudi Arabia,
Iran (
Kavir desert
Dasht-e Kavir ( fa, دشت كوير, lit=Low Plains in classical Persian, from ''khwar'' (low), and ''dasht'' (plain, flatland)), also known as Kavir-e Namak () and the Great Salt Desert, is a large desert lying in the middle of the Iranian Plat ...
),
India, S.
Turkmenistan, N.
Africa,
Afghanistan,
Pakistan,
Senegal,
Niger,
Sudan
Sudan ( or ; ar, السودان, as-Sūdān, officially the Republic of the Sudan ( ar, جمهورية السودان, link=no, Jumhūriyyat as-Sūdān), is a country in Northeast Africa. It shares borders with the Central African Republic t ...
,
Syria
Syria ( ar, سُورِيَا or سُورِيَة, translit=Sūriyā), officially the Syrian Arab Republic ( ar, الجمهورية العربية السورية, al-Jumhūrīyah al-ʻArabīyah as-Sūrīyah), is a Western Asian country loc ...
. Type locality:
Egypt.
Description
Adult lizards reach the maximum length of 55 mm, including tail.
References
* Lichtenstein, M. Heinrich C. 1823 Verzeichniss der Doubletten des zoologischen Museums der Königl. Universität zu Berlin nebst Beschreibung vieler bisher unbekannter Arten von Säugethieren, Vögeln, Amphibien und Fischen. Königl. Preuss. Akad. Wiss./ T. Trautwein, Berlin. x, 118 pages
External links
* https://web.archive.org/web/20060131020506/http://itgmv1.fzk.de/www/itg/uetz/herp/photos/Mesalina_guttulata.jpg
*
Mesalina
Lacertid lizards of Africa
Reptiles of Pakistan
Vertebrates of Egypt
Reptiles of North Africa
Reptiles of Central Asia
Fauna of South Asia
Fauna of the Sahara
Reptiles described in 1823
Taxa named by Hinrich Lichtenstein
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