Aeolian wall lizard, the Glossary

Table of Contents

1. 17 relations: Aeolian Islands, Common name, Endemism, Family (biology), Filicudi, Habitat, Holotype, Italian wall lizard, Italy, Lacertidae, Lizard, Robert Mertens, Salina, Sicily, Species, Specific name (zoology), Strombolicchio, Vulcano.

2. Podarcis
3. Reptiles described in 1952

Aeolian Islands

The Aeolian Islands (Isole Eolie; Ìsuli Eoli), sometimes referred to as the Lipari Islands or Lipari group after their largest island, are a volcanic archipelago in the Tyrrhenian Sea north of Sicily, said to be named after Aeolus, the mythical ruler of the winds.

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Common name

In biology, a common name of a taxon or organism (also known as a vernacular name, English name, colloquial name, country name, popular name, or farmer's name) is a name that is based on the normal language of everyday life; and is often contrasted with the scientific name for the same organism, which is often based in Latin.

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Endemism

Endemism is the state of a species only being found in a single defined geographic location, such as an island, state, nation, country or other defined zone; organisms that are indigenous to a place are not endemic to it if they are also found elsewhere.

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Family (biology)

Family (familia,: familiae) is one of the nine major hierarchical taxonomic ranks in Linnaean taxonomy.

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Filicudi

Filicudi is one of seven islands that make up the Aeolian archipelago, situated northeast of the island of Sicily, Southern Italy.

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Habitat

In ecology, habitat refers to the array of resources, physical and biotic factors that are present in an area, such as to support the survival and reproduction of a particular species.

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Holotype

A holotype is a single physical example (or illustration) of an organism used when the species (or lower-ranked taxon) was formally described.

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Italian wall lizard

The Italian wall lizard or ruin lizard (Podarcis siculus, from the Greek meaning agile and feet) is a species of lizard in the family Lacertidae. Aeolian wall lizard and Italian wall lizard are lizards of Europe and Podarcis.

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Italy

Italy, officially the Italian Republic, is a country in Southern and Western Europe.

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Lacertidae

The Lacertidae are the family of the wall lizards, true lizards, or sometimes simply lacertas, which are native to Afro-Eurasia.

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Lizard

Lizard is the common name used for all squamate reptiles other than snakes (and to a lesser extent amphisbaenians), encompassing over 7,000 species, ranging across all continents except Antarctica, as well as most oceanic island chains.

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Robert Mertens

Robert Friedrich Wilhelm Mertens (1 December 1894 – 23 August 1975) was a German herpetologist.

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Salina, Sicily

Salina is one of the Aeolian Islands north of Sicily, Southern Italy.

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Species

A species (species) is often defined as the largest group of organisms in which any two individuals of the appropriate sexes or mating types can produce fertile offspring, typically by sexual reproduction.

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Specific name (zoology)

In zoological nomenclature, the specific name (also specific epithet, species epithet, or epitheton) is the second part (the second name) within the scientific name of a species (a binomen).

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Strombolicchio

Strombolicchio is a sea stack of volcanic origin to the northeast of the island of Stromboli in the Aeolian Islands of Italy.

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Vulcano

Vulcano (Vurcanu) or Vulcan is a small volcanic island belonging to Italy in the Tyrrhenian Sea, about north of Sicily and located at the southernmost end of the seven Aeolian Islands.

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See also

Podarcis

• Aeolian wall lizard
• Bocage's wall lizard
• Dalmatian wall lizard
• Erhard's wall lizard
• Filfola lizard
• Ibiza wall lizard
• Italian wall lizard
• Lilford's wall lizard
• Milos wall lizard
• Peloponnese wall lizard
• Podarcis
• Podarcis carbonelli
• Podarcis cretensis
• Podarcis galerai
• Podarcis guadarramae
• Podarcis hispanicus
• Podarcis ionicus
• Podarcis levendis
• Podarcis liolepis
• Podarcis lusitanicus
• Podarcis muralis
• Podarcis tauricus
• Podarcis vaucheri
• Podarcis virescens
• Pontian wall lizard
• Santo Stefano lizard
• Sicilian wall lizard
• Skyros wall lizard
• Tyrrhenian wall lizard

Reptiles described in 1952

• Aeolian wall lizard
• Alopoglossus andeanus
• Anolis heteropholidotus
• Bothrops venezuelensis
• Cercosaura bassleri
• Cercosaura parkeri
• Chelonoidis monensis
• Chironius monticola
• Crotalus aquilus
• Crotalus pusillus
• Geophis fulvoguttatus
• Lacerta diplochondrodes
• Leposoma annectans
• Loxopholis guianense
• Lygodactylus williamsi
• Micrurus nattereri
• Podarcis cretensis
• Pogona microlepidota
• Pseudelaphe phaescens
• Rhadinella montecristi
• Stenodactylus grandiceps
• Tantilla brevicauda
• Trioceros schoutedeni
• Xantusia wigginsi

References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aeolian_wall_lizard

Also known as Podarcis raffonei.