Mesalina is a genus of wall lizards of the family Lacertidae.
Species
The following 20 described species are recognized as being valid.
- Mesalina adramitana – Hadramaut sand lizard
- Mesalina adrarensis
- Mesalina arnoldi
- Mesalina austroarabica
- Mesalina ayunensis – Ayun sand lizard, Arnold's sand lizard
- Mesalina bahaeldini
- Mesalina balfouri
- Mesalina bernoullii – Bernoulli's short-nosed desert lizard
- Mesalina brevirostris – Blanford's short-nosed desert lizard
- Mesalina ercolinii
- Mesalina guttulata – small-spotted lizard
- Mesalina kuri
- Mesalina martini – Martin's desert racer
- Mesalina microlepis – small-scaled desert lizard
- Mesalina olivieri – Olivier's sand lizard
- Mesalina pasteuri – Pasteur's lizard
- Mesalina rubropunctata – red-spotted lizard
- Mesalina saudiarabica
- Mesalina simoni – Simon's desert racer
- Mesalina watsonana – 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.
References
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).