Mesalina

Mesalina
Small-spotted lizard (Mesalina guttulata)
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Reptilia
Order:	Squamata
Family:	Lacertidae
Subfamily:	Lacertinae
Genus:	Mesalina Gray, 1838
Species
20 species, see text.

Mesalina is a genus of wall lizards of the family Lacertidae.

Species

The following 20 described species are recognized as being valid.

• Mesalina adramitana (Boulenger, 1917) – Hadramaut sand lizard
• Mesalina adrarensis Pizzigalli, Crochet, Geniez, Martínez-Freiría, Velo-Antón & Brito, 2021
• Mesalina arnoldi Sindaco, Simó-Riudalbas, Sacchi & Carranza, 2018
• Mesalina austroarabica Sindaco, Simó-Riudalbas, Sacchi & Carranza, 2018
• Mesalina ayunensis Arnold, 1980 – Ayun sand lizard, Arnold's sand lizard
• Mesalina bahaeldini Segoli, Cohen & Y. Werner, 2002
• Mesalina balfouri (Blanford, 1881)
• Mesalina bernoullii (Schenkel, 1901) – Bernoulli's short-nosed desert lizard
• Mesalina brevirostris Blanford, 1874 – Blanford's short-nosed desert lizard
• Mesalina ercolinii (Lanza & Poggesi, 1975)
• Mesalina guttulata (Lichtenstein, 1823) – small-spotted lizard
• Mesalina kuri Joger & Mayer, 2002
• Mesalina martini (Boulenger, 1897) – Martin's desert racer
• Mesalina microlepis (Angel, 1936) – small-scaled desert lizard
• Mesalina olivieri (Audouin, 1829) – Olivier's sand lizard
• Mesalina pasteuri (Bons, 1960) – Pasteur's lizard
• Mesalina rubropunctata (Lichtenstein, 1823) – red-spotted lizard
• Mesalina saudiarabica Moravec, Šmíd, Schmitz, Shobrak & Wilms, 2017
• Mesalina simoni (Boettger, 1881) – Simon's desert racer
• Mesalina watsonana (Stoliczka, 1872) – Persian long-tailed desert lizard

Nota bene: A binomial authority in parentheses indicates that the species was originally described in a genus other than Mesalina.

Further reading

• Gray JE (1838). "Catalogue of the Slender-tongued Saurians, with Descriptions of many new Genera and Species". Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., [First Series ] 1: 274–283, 388–394. (Mesalina, new genus, p. 282).