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    Species Accepted

    Meroles micropholidotus Mertens, 1938

    Small-scaled Desert Lizard
    EukaryotaAnimalia...Meroles
    IUCNLeast Concern

    Classification and descendants

    Source: Catalogue of Life

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      Vernacular names

      Source: Catalogue of Life

      4 results
      Namibisk Finskællet Ørkenfirben Danish
      Small-scaled Desert Lizard English
      Small-scaled Sand Lizard English
      Малочешуйный меролес Russian

      Bibliography

      Source: Catalogue of Life

      10 results
      EDWARDS, SHELLEY; WILLIAM R. BRANCH, BIEKE VANHOOYDONCK, ANTHONY HERREL, G. JOHN MEASEY, KRYSTAL A. TOLLEY. (2013). Taxonomic adjustments in the systematics of the southern African lacertid lizards (Sauria: Lacertidae). Zootaxa 3669 (2): 101–114.
      Haacke, W. D. (1975). Herpetological investigations in the sand sea of the southern Namib. . TRANSVAAL MUSEUM BULLETIN No. 15: 8-10.
      Arnold, E. N. (1991). Relationships of the South African lizards assigned to Aporosaura, Meroles and Pedioplanis (Reptilia: Lacertidae). Journal of Natural History 25: 783–807.
      Lamb, T. & A.M. Bauer. (2003). Meroles revisited: complementary systematic inference from additional mitochondrial genes and complete taxon sampling of southern Africa’s desert lizards. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 29: 360–364.
      Robinson, M.D.; C.W. Barrows. (2013). Namibian and North American sand-diving lizards. Journal of Arid Environments 93: 116–125.
      FA Bisby, YR Roskov, MA Ruggiero, TM Orrell, LE Paglinawan, PW Brewer, N Bailly, J van Hertum, eds (2007). Species 2000 & ITIS Catalogue of Life: 2007 Annual Checklist Taxonomic Classification. CD-ROM; Species 2000: Reading, U.K.
      Szczerbak, Nikolai N. (1989). Catalogue of the African Sand lizards (Reptilia: Sauria: Eremiainae: Lampreremias, Pseuderemias, Taenieremias, Mesalina, Meroles). Herpetozoa 1 (3/4): 119-132.
      Herrmann, H.-W.; W.R. Branch. (2013). Fifty years of herpetological research in the Namib Desert and Namibia with an updated and annotated species checklist. Journal of Arid Environments 93: 94–115.
      Mitchell, A. J. L., & Steyn, W. (1967). Further distribution records of Reptiles in SW- Africa. Cimbebasia 21: 23-26 (Windhoek).
      Mertens, R. (1937). Zur Kenntnis der Reptilien-Fauna der Lüderitz-Bucht, Südwest-Afrika. Veroeff. Deutsch. Kolon.- U. Uebersee-Mus. Bremen 2: 10-16.

      Citation

      Meroles micropholidotus Mertens, 1938 in undefined