Podarcis

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: Podarcis
Species (23): P. bocagei – P. carbonelli – P. cretensis – P. erhardii – P. filfolensis – P. gaigeae – P. guadarramae – P. hispanicus – P. levendis – P. lilfordi – P. liolepis – P. melisellensis – P. milensis – P. muralis – P. peloponnesiacus – P. pityusensis – P. raffonei – P. siculus – P. tauricus – P. tiliguerta – P. vaucheri – P. virescens – P. waglerianus
Name

Podarcis Wagler, 1830: 155

Type species: Podarcis muralis Wagler, 1830 in error (=Seps muralis Laurenti, 1768), by subsequent designation of Fitzinger (1843: 20).

Synonyms

Phenax Fitzinger: 1843: 20
Type locality: Lacerta taurica Pallas, 1814, by original designation.

References
Primary references

Wagler, J.G. 1830. Natürliches System der Amphibien, mit vorangehender Classification der Säugetiere und Vögel. Ein Beitrag zur vergleichenden Zoologie.. J.G. Cotta'schen Buchhandlung: München, Stuttgart, & Tübingen. 354 pp. BHL Reference page.
Fitzinger, L. 1843. Systema Reptilium. Fasciculus primus. Amblyglossae. Braumüller et Seidel: Wien. vi + 106 pp. BHL Reference page.

Additional references

Arnold, E.N., Arribas, O. & Carranza, S. 2007. Systematics of the Palaearctic and Oriental lizard tribe Lacertini (Squamata: Lacertidae: Lacertinae), with descriptions of eight new genera. Zootaxa 1430: 1–86. Abstract & excerpt. Reference page.
Geniez, P., Cluchier, A., Sá-Sousa, P., Guillaume, C.P. & Crochet, P.-A. 2007. Systematics of the Podarcis hispanicus-complex (Sauria, Lacertidae) I: Redefinition, morphology and distribution of the nominotypical taxon. Herpetological Journal 17(2): 69–80. Full article (PDF). Reference page.
Renoult, J.P., Geniez, P., Bacquet, P., Guillaume, C.-P. & Crochet, P.-A. 2010. Systematics of the Podarcis hispanicus-complex (Sauria, Lacertidae) II: the valid name of the north-eastern Spanish form. Zootaxa 2500(1): 58–68. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.2500.1.3 Paywall Reference page.
Geniez, P., Sá-Sousa, P., Guillaume, C.-P., Cluchier, A. & Crochet, P.-A. 2014. Systematics of the Podarcis hispanicus complex (Sauria, Lacertidae) III: valid nomina of the western and central Iberian forms. Zootaxa 3794(1): 1–51. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3794.1.1 Paywall Reference page.

Links

Uetz, P. & Hallermann, J. 2021. Podarcis . The Reptile Database. Accessed on 19 March 2020.
Podarcis – Taxon details on Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS).

Vernacular names
Aymar aru: Jararankha
български: Стенни гущери
Deutsch: Mauereidechsen
English: Wall Lizards
español: Lagartijas
français: Lagartijas
italiano: Lucertole
português: Lagartixas
Runa Simi: Allallanka
русский: Стенные ящерицы

Podarcis is a genus of lizards in the family Lacertidae. Its members look very similar to lizards of the genus Lacerta, to which they were considered to belong until the 1970s. While similar externally and ecologically, Podarcis form a distinct group differing from Lacerta by the construction of the skull and the hemipenis, and by the processes of the caudal vertebrae.[4] They are commonly known as wall lizards. They are native to Europe and northern Africa, and most species are restricted to the Mediterranean region. Wall lizards diversified and hybridized during the Messinian salinity crisis. [5] The Italian wall lizard and the common wall lizard have been introduced to North America, where they have become intermediate hosts for some Acuariidae larvae. [6]
Species and subspecies

The genus Podarcis contains the following 25 species which are recognized as being valid.[2] A few of the many recognized subspecies are also listed here.

Bocage's wall lizard, Podarcis bocagei (Seoane, 1885)
Carbonell's wall lizard, Podarcis carbonelli Pérez Mellado, 1981
Cretan wall lizard, Podarcis cretensis (Wettstein, 1952)
Erhard's wall lizard, Podarcis erhardii (Bedriaga, 1882)
Maltese wall lizard, Podarcis filfolensis (Bedriaga, 1876)
Skyros wall lizard, Podarcis gaigeae (F. Werner, 1930)
Podarcis guadarramae (Boscá, 1916)
Iberian wall lizard, Podarcis hispanicus (Steindachner, 1870)
Crimean wall lizard, Podarcis ionicus (Lehrs, 1902)
Pontian wall lizard, Podarcis latastei (Bedriaga, 1879)
Podarcis levendis Lymberakis, Poulakakis, Kaliontzopoulou, Valakos & Mylonas, 2008
Lilford's wall lizard, Podarcis lilfordi (Günther, 1874)
Ratas Island lizard, Podarcis lilfordi rodriquezi (L. Müller, 1927), extinct, 1950
Catalan wall lizard, Podarcis liolepis (Boulenger, 1905)
Dalmatian wall lizard, Podarcis melisellensis (Braun, 1877)
Milos wall lizard, Podarcis milensis (Bedriaga, 1882)
Common or European wall lizard, Podarcis muralis (Laurenti, 1768)
Peloponnese wall lizard, Podarcis peloponnesiacus (Bibron & Bory de Saint-Vincent, 1833)
Ibiza wall lizard, Podarcis pityusensis (Boscá, 1883)
Aeolian wall lizard, Podarcis raffonei (Mertens, 1952)
Italian wall lizard, Podarcis siculus (Rafinesque, 1810)
Santo Stefano lizard, Podarcis siculus sanctistephani (Mertens, 1926), extinct, 1965
Balkan wall lizard, Podarcis tauricus (Pallas, 1814)
Tyrrhenian wall lizard, Podarcis tiliguerta (Gmelin, 1789)
Andalusian wall lizard, Podarcis vaucheri (Boulenger, 1905)
Podarcis virescens Geniez, Sá-Sousa, Guillaume, Cluchier & Crochet, 2014
Sicilian wall lizard, Podarcis waglerianus (Gistel, 1868)

Nota bene: A binomial authority or trinomial authority in parentheses indicates that the species or subspecies was originally described in a genus other than Podarcis.
References

"Podarcis ". ITIS (Integrated Taxonomic Information System). www.itis.gov.
Genus Podarcis at The Reptile Database. www.reptile-database.org.
"Podarcis ". Dahms Tierleben. www.dahmstierleben.de.
Wendler, Günter Diesener ; Josef Reichholf. Hrsg. von Gunter Steinbach. Ill. von Fritz (1996). Lurche und Kriechtiere (Neue, bearb. Sonderausg. ed.). München: Mosaik-Verl. ISBN 3-576-10697-9.
Schuster, Ruth (2021-05-19). "Why Wall Lizards Are the Most Successful Reptile in the Mediterranean". Haaretz. Haaretz English Edition. Retrieved 2021-05-20.

Burke, Russell L.; Goldberg, Stephen R.; Bursey, Charles R.; Perkins, Susan L.; Andreadis, Paul T. (2007). "Depauperate Parasite Faunas in Introduced Populations of Podarcis (Squamata: Lacertidae) Lizards in North America". Journal of Herpetology. 41 (4): 755–757. doi:10.1670/07-023.1. JSTOR 40060472. S2CID 86797774. Retrieved 2021-05-20.