Gallotiinae
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Canary Island Lizard ( Gallotia galloti ) |
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| Cano , Báez , López-Jurado & Ortega , 1984 |
The Gallotiinae are a subfamily of the real lizards (Lacertidae) native to the Canary Islands , the Iberian Peninsula and the three North African states Tunisia , Algeria and Morocco .
features
The Gallotiinae are generally similar to the species of the second subfamily of the real lizards, the Lacertinae . The almost extinct and only recently rediscovered species of the Canary Islands Gran Canaria , Tenerife , La Gomera and El Hierro , which can be half a meter or even 75 cm (El Hierro) long ( island gigantism ), are striking . The Gallotiinae differ from the Lacertinae mainly by their ability to emit sounds and by a field of soft spines at the point of division of the two hemipenis, which are otherwise not provided with thorns or hooks .
Genera and species
There are 12 recent species in two genera, Gallotia from the Canary Islands and Psammodromus from the Iberian Peninsula and Northwest Africa.
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Canary Islands lizards ( Gallotia Boulenger, 1916)
- Eastern Canary Lizard ( Gallotia atlantica )
- La Palma giant lizard ( Gallotia auaritae )
- La Gomera giant lizard ( Gallotia bravoana )
- Small Canary Lizard ( Gallotia caesaris )
- Canary Island Lizard ( Gallotia galloti )
- Tenerife giant lizard ( Gallotia intermedia )
- El Hierro Giant Lizard ( Gallotia simonyi )
- Gran Canaria Giant Lizard ( Gallotiastehlini )
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Sand runner ( Psammodromus Fitzinger, 1826)
- Algerian sand runner ( P. algirus )
- Psammodromus blanci
- Spanish sand runner ( P. hispanicus )
- Psammodromus microdactylus
Some fossil taxa are also described, for example Janosikia ulmensis from the Lower Miocene of Germany and Pseudeumeces cadurcensis from the Oligocene .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Andrej Čerňanský, Jozef Klembara & Krister T. Smith: fossil lizard from central Europe Resolves the origin of large body size and herbivory in giant Canary Iceland lacertids . In: Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society , 176 (4), pp. 861-877 doi: 10.1111 / zoj.12340
literature
- E. Nicholas Arnold, Oscar Arribas, Salvador Carranza: Systematics of the Palaearctic and Oriental lizard tribe Lacertini (Squamata: Lacertidae: Lacertinae), with descriptions of eight new genera (= Zootaxa . 1430). Magnolia Press, Auckland 2007, digital version (PDF; 2.76 MB) .