Timon (lizard)
Appearance
Timon | |
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Timon lepidus | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Reptilia |
Order: | Squamata |
Family: | Lacertidae |
Subfamily: | Lacertinae |
Genus: | Timon Tschudi, 1836 |
Species | |
Six, see text. |
Timon is a genus of wall lizards in the family Lacertidae.[1]
Species
[edit]The genus Timon contains the following six species which are recognized as being valid.[2]
- Timon kurdistanicus (Suchow, 1936) - Kurdistan lizard
- Timon lepidus (Daudin, 1802) - ocellated lizard, jewelled lizard
- Timon nevadensis (Buchholz, 1963) - Sierra Nevada lizard
- Timon pater (Lataste, 1880)
- Timon princeps (Blanford, 1874) - Siirt lizard, Zagrosian lizard
- Timon tangitanus (Boulenger, 1887) - Moroccan eyed lizard
Nota bene: A binomial authority in parentheses indicates that the species was originally described in a genus other than Timon.
References
[edit]- ^ "Genus: Timon ". Uniprot: Taxonomy. UniProt Consortium. Archived from the original on 24 August 2011. Retrieved 9 May 2011.
- ^ Genus Timon at The Reptile Database. www.reptile-database.org.
Further reading
[edit]- Tschudi JJ (1836). "Über ein neues Subgenus von Lacerta Cuv." Isis von Oken 29 (7): 546–551. (Timon, new subgenus, p. 551). (in German and Latin).