''Timon pater'' is a
species
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of
lizard in the
family
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Lacertidae,
the wall lizards. The species is
endemic
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to
Northwest Africa
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.
Geographic range
''Timon pater'' is native to
Algeria
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Tunisia
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, and
Morocco
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.
Reproduction
''T. pater'' is
oviparous.
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References
Further reading
* Boulenger GA (1887). ''Catalogue of the Lizards in the British Museum (Natural History). Second Edition. Volume III. Lacertidæ ...'' London Trustees of the British Museum (Natural History). (Taylor and Francis, printers). xii + 575 pp. + Plates I-XL. (''Lacerta ocellata'' Var. ''pater'', p. 13).
* Lataste F (1880). "''Diagnoses de reptiles nouveaux d'Algérie'' ". ''Le Naturaliste'' 1 (39): 299, 306–307. (''Lacerta ocellata pater'', new subspecies, pp. 306–307). (in French).
External links
SRSWWW server at EMBL-Heidelberg
Timon (genus)
Reptiles described in 1880
Taxa named by Fernand Lataste
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