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Superregnum: Eukaryota
Regnum: Animalia
Subregnum: Eumetazoa
Cladus: Bilateria
Cladus: Nephrozoa
Superphylum: Deuterostomia
Phylum: Chordata
Cladus: Craniata
Subphylum: Vertebrata
Infraphylum: Gnathostomata
Superclassis: Tetrapoda
Cladus: Reptiliomorpha
Cladus: Amniota
Classis: Reptilia
Cladus: Eureptilia
Cladus: Romeriida
Subclassis: Diapsida
Cladus: Sauria
Infraclassis: Lepidosauromorpha
Superordo: Lepidosauria
Ordo: Squamata
Cladus: Unidentata Episquamata

Subordo: Lacertoidea
Infraordo: Lacertibaenia

Familia: Lacertidae
Subfamilia: Lacertinae
Genus: Mesalina
Species: M. adramitana - M. arnoldi – M. austroarabica – M. ayunensis - M. bahaeldini - M. balfouri - M. brevirostris - M. ercolinii - M. guttulata - M. kuri - M. martini - M. olivieri - M. pasteuri - M. rubropunctata - M. simoni - M. watsonana
Name

Mesalina Gray, 1838
References

Template:Gray, 1838

Sindaco, R., Simó-Riudalbas, M., Sacchi, R. & Carranza, S. 2018. Systematics of the Mesalina guttulata species complex (Squamata: Lacertidae) from Arabia with the description of two new species. Zootaxa 4429(3): 513–547. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4429.3.4 Paywall Reference page.

Vernacular names
русский: афроазиатские ящурки

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

The following 19 described species are recognized as being valid.[1]

Mesalina adramitana (Boulenger, 1917) – Hadramaut sand lizard
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.
References

"Mesalina ". The Reptile Database. Reptile-database.cz

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).

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