Psammodromus

Psammodromus
Psammodromus algirus
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Reptilia
Order:	Squamata
Family:	Lacertidae
Subfamily:	Gallotiinae
Genus:	Psammodromus Fitzinger, 1826 [1]
Species
Six recognized species, see article.

Psammodromus is a small genus of sand lizards of the family Lacertidae. It has six described species, which are found in European and North African countries next to the Mediterranean. ^[2]

Species

The following species are recognized as being valid. ^[3]

• Psammodromus algirus (Linnaeus, 1758) - large psammodromus, Algerian psammodromus, Algerian sand racer
• Psammodromus blanci (Lataste, 1880) - Blanc's sand racer, Blanc's psammodromus
• Psammodromus edwarsianus (Dugès, 1829) - East Iberian sand racer, East Iberian psammodromus
• Psammodromus hispanicus Fitzinger, 1826 – Spanish psammodromus
• Psammodromus jeanneae
• Psammodromus manuelae
• Psammodromus microdactylus (Boettger, 1881) – small-fingered psammodromus, green psammodromus
• Psammodromus occidentalis Fitze et al., 2012

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

References

1. "Psammodromus ". Dahms Tierleben. www.dahmstierleben.de/systematik/Reptilien/Squamata/Scincomorpha/Lacertidae.
2. EOL.org
3. "Psammodromus ". The Reptile Database. www.reptile-database.org.

Further reading

• Boulenger GA (1887). Catalogue of the Lizards in the British Museum (Natural History). Second Edition. Volume III. Lacertidæ ... London: Trustees of the British Museum (Natural History). (Taylor and Francis, printers). xii + 575 pp. + Plates I-XL. (Genus Psammodromus, pp. 46–47).
• Fitzinger LI (1826). Neue Classification der Reptilien nach ihren natürlichen Verwandtschaften. Nebst einer Verwandtschafts-tafel und einem Verzeichnisse der Reptilien-Sammlung des K.K. zoologischen Museum's zu Wien. Vienna: J.G. Heubner. five unnumbered + 67 pp. + one plate. (Psammodromus, new genus, p. 22). (in German and Latin).
• López, Pilar; Martín, José (2009). "Lipids in femoral gland secretions of male lizards, Psammodromus hispanicus ". Biochemical Systematics and Ecology37 (4): 304–307.