Meroles Gray, 1838

Dataset

GBIF Backbone Taxonomy

Rank

GENUS

Published in

Gray, John E. 1838. Catalogue of the slender-tongued saurians, with descriptions of many new genera and species. Annals of Natural History; or, Magazine of Zoology, Botany and Geology, Being a Continuation of the 'Magazine of Botany and Zoology', and of Louden and Charlesworth's 'Magazine of Natural History' 1: 274-283.

Classification

kingdom

Animalia

phylum

Chordata

class

Squamata

family

Lacertidae

genus

Meroles

Name

Synonyms

Pachyrhynchus

Pachyrhyncus Barboza du Bocage, 1867

Homonyms

Meroles Gray, 1838

Common names

Desert Lizards in English

Sand Lizards in English

Scharreidechsen in German

meroles in Czech

Меролесы in Russian

ヒラタカナヘビ属 in Japanese

Bibliographic References

1. Ann. Nat. Hist., 1 (4)
2. Arnold, E. N., 1989: Towards a phylogeny and biogeography of the Lacertidae: relationships within an old-world family of lizards derived from morphology. Bulletin of the British Museum, Natural History (Zoology), vol. 55, no. 2. 209-257.
3. CoL 2006
4. Edwards, Shelly, William R. Branch, Bieke Vanhooydonck, Anthony Herrel, G. John Measey, and Krystal, 2013: Taxonomic adjustments in the systematics of the southern African lacertid lizards (Sauria: Lacertidae). Zootaxa, vol. 3669, no. 2. 101-114.
5. Neave, S. A. and successors. (1939-2004). Nomenclator Zoologicus, vols. 1-10 online. [developed by uBio, hosted online at MBLWHOI Library]. Previously at http://ubio.org/NomenclatorZoologicus/ (URL no longer current).
6. Neave, S. A. and successors. (1939-2004). Nomenclator Zoologicus, vols. 1-10 online. [developed by uBio, hosted online at MBLWHOI Library]. Previously at http://ubio.org/NomenclatorZoologicus/ (URL no longer current).
7. SN2000/Uetz, 1995-
8. SN2000/Uetz, 1995-
9. as per family