Canary Lizard

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Canary Lizard
Males above, females below right

Males above, females below right

Systematics
Superordinate : Scale lizards (Lepidosauria)
Order : Scale reptiles (Squamata)
Family : Real lizards (Lacertidae)
Subfamily : Gallotiinae
Genre : Canary lizards ( Gallotia )
Type : Canary Lizard
Scientific name
Gallotia galloti
( Oudart , 1839)
male
female

The Canary Lizard ( Gallotia galloti ) species of lizard from the Lacertidae family .

features

The canary lizard reaches a total length of 44 centimeters, which makes it one of the medium-sized species within the genus Gallotia . The males reach a head-torso length of up to 14.5 centimeters, the females remain somewhat smaller with up to 13.5 centimeters. The back scales are unkeeled and very small. A large temple plate ( massetericum ) is usually present at the temples. The collar of the species is smooth-edged at its rear edge. The Canary Lizard is colored and drawn very variably.

Systematics

The species is divided into:

  • Gallotia galloti galloti ( Oudart , 1839) in the south and center of Tenerife
  • Gallotia galloti eisentrauti Bischoff , 1982 in the north of Tenerife
  • Gallotia galloti insulanagae Martin , 1985 on the Roque Fuera de Anaga off the coast of Tenerife
  • Gallotia galloti palmae ( Boettger & Müller , 1914) on La Palma

habitat

The Canary Lizard prefers open, stony landscapes and lives as a follower of culture, especially in the natural stone walls typical of the Canary Islands. It feeds on plants and small invertebrates.

The Canary Island lizard is quite common in its natural habitat, is even seen in places as a nuisance and pest (especially in viticulture) and is fought by farmers with poison and traps.

Etymology and history of research

Paul Louis Oudart is considered to be the author of the Canary Island Lizard ( Gallotia galloti ), but the publication history is a bit complicated. Paul Gervais had already published the name in front of the blackboard, but since this article did not contain a description, the name is considered a noun nudum . The table for the species appeared in 1839 in Histoire naturelle des Iles Canaries before Gabriel Bibrons and André Marie Constant Duméril published the description in Erpétologie générale from the same year. Paul Gervai's description of the panel in Histoire naturelle des Iles Canaries was not made until 1844. Thus, Oudart is now considered the author of the species. The species name was named after Auguste Gallot .

literature

  • Dieter Glandt : Pocket dictionary of amphibians and reptiles in Europe. All types from the Canary Islands to the Urals. Quelle & Meyer, Wiebelsheim 2010, ISBN 978-3-494-01470-8 , pp. 348-353.
  • Alain Dubois: Les spécimens-types de Gallotia galloti (Oudart, 1839) (Reptiles, Sauriens) . In: Bulletin Mensuel de la Societe Linneenne de Lyon . tape 53 , no. 1 , 1984, p. 27-39 ( persee.fr ).
  • André Marie Constant Duméril, Gabriel Bibron: Erpétologie générale, ou, Histoire naturelle complète des reptiles . tape 5 . Libraire Encyclopédique de Roret, Paris 1839 ( biodiversitylibrary.org ).
  • Paul Gervais: Zoology: Animaux d'Afrique . In: L'Institut, Journal universel des science et des sociétés savantes en France et à l'étranger . tape 7 , no. 267 , 1839, pp. 45 ( babel.hathitrust.org ).
  • Paul Louis Oudart & Paul Gervais in Philip Barker Webb, Sabin Berthelot: Histoire naturelle des Iles Canaries (=  zoology ). Béthune, Paris ( biodiversitylibrary.org - 1836-1846).
  • Wolfgang Bischoff: The intraspecific structure of Gallotia gallotoi (Duméril & Bibron 1839) (Reptilia: Sauria: Lacertidae) on Tenerife, Canary Islands . In: Bonn zoological contributions . tape 33 , no. 2-4 , 1982, pp. 363-382 ( biodiversitylibrary.org ).
  • Aurelío Martin: Los lagartos de los roques del norte de Tenerife . In: Bonn zoological contributions . tape 36 , no. 3-4 , 1985, pp. 517-528 ( biodiversitylibrary.org ).
  • Caesar-Rudolf Boettger , Lorenz Müller: Preliminary notes on the local races of some Canarian lizards . In: The Annals and magazine of natural history; zoology, botany, and geology (=  8 ). tape 14 , 1914, pp. 67-78 ( biodiversitylibrary.org ).

Web links

Commons : Canary Lizard ( Gallotia galloti )  - Album with pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Paul Louis Oudart (1839), plate in Histoire naturelle des Iles Canaries .
  2. ↑ Wolfgang Bischoff (1982), p. 371.
  3. ↑ Aurelío Martin (1985), p. 524.
  4. ↑ Caesar-Rudolf Boettger u. a. (1914), p. 71.
  5. ^ Paul Gervais (1839), p. 45.
  6. ↑ Gabriel Bibron et al. a., p. 238.
  7. ↑ Alain Dubois, pp. 27-30.
  8. ↑ Gabriel Bibron et al. a., p. 240.