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Filfola lizard, the Glossary

The filfola lizard or Maltese wall lizard (Podarcis filfolensis) is a species of lizard in the family Lacertidae.^[1]

28 relations: Arable land, Comino, Cominotto, Egg, Endemic Maltese wildlife, Endemism, Filfla, Fungus Rock, Gozo, Habitat, Islet, Italy, Jacques von Bedriaga, Lacertidae, Lampione, Linosa, List of reptiles of Italy, Lizard, Madeiran wall lizard, Malta, Marsaxlokk, Mediterranean forests, woodlands, and scrub, Pasture, Pelagie Islands, Shrubland, Species, St Paul's Island, Subspecies.
Endemic fauna of Malta
Fauna of Malta
Podarcis
Reptiles described in 1876
Taxa named by Jacques von Bedriaga

Arable land

Arable land (from the arabilis, "able to be ploughed") is any land capable of being ploughed and used to grow crops.

Comino

Comino (Kemmuna) is a small island of the Maltese archipelago between the islands of Malta and Gozo in the Mediterranean Sea, measuring in area.

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Cominotto

Cominotto (Kemmunett), sometimes referred to as Cominetto, is an uninhabited Mediterranean island off the northern coast of Gozo, Malta.

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An egg is an organic vessel grown by an animal to carry a possibly fertilized egg cell (a zygote) and to incubate from it an embryo within the egg until the embryo has become an animal fetus that can survive on its own, at which point the animal hatches.

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Endemic Maltese wildlife

The Maltese Islands, although small in area (316 km2), host many endemic species.

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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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Filfla

Filfla is a mostly barren, uninhabited islet south of Malta, and is the most southerly point of the Maltese Archipelago.

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Fungus Rock

Fungus Rock, sometimes known as Mushroom Rock, and among the Maltese as Il-Ġebla tal-Ġeneral (The General's Rock), is a small islet in the form of a massive lump of limestone at the entrance to an almost circular black lagoon in Dwejra, on the coast of Gozo, itself an island in the Maltese archipelago.

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Gozo

Gozo (Għawdex), in antiquity known as Gaulos (𐤂𐤅𐤋|; Gaúlos), is an island in the Maltese archipelago in the Mediterranean Sea.

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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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Islet

An islet is a very small, often unnamed island.

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Italy

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

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Jacques von Bedriaga

Jacques Vladimir von Bedriaga, sometimes Bedryagha (Russian: Яков Владимирович Бедряга; 1854 - 1906) was a Russian herpetologist who was a native of Kriniz, a village near Voronezh.

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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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Lampione

Lampione (Lampiuni lamˈbjuːnɪ; جزيرة الكتاب, Jazīrat al-Kitāb) is a small rocky island located in the Mediterranean Sea, which belongs geographically to the Pelagie Islands and administratively to the comune of Lampedusa e Linosa, Province of Agrigento, region of Sicily, Italy.

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Linosa

Linosa (Linusa lɪˈnuːsa; نموشة, Nammūša) is one of the Pelagie Islands in the Sicily Channel of the Mediterranean Sea.

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List of reptiles of Italy

The Italian reptile fauna totals 58 species (including introduced and naturalised species).

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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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Madeiran wall lizard

The Madeiran wall lizard (Teira dugesii) is a species of lizard in the family Lacertidae.

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Malta

Malta, officially the Republic of Malta, is an island country in Southern Europe located in the Mediterranean Sea.

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Marsaxlokk

Marsaxlokk is a small, traditional fishing village in the South Eastern Region of Malta.

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Mediterranean forests, woodlands, and scrub

Mediterranean forests, woodlands and scrub is a biome defined by the World Wide Fund for Nature.

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Pasture

Pasture (from the Latin pastus, past participle of pascere, "to feed") is land used for grazing.

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Pelagie Islands

The Pelagie Islands (Isole Pelagie; Ìsuli Pilaggî), from the Greek πέλαγος, pélagos meaning "open sea", are the three small islands of Lampedusa, Lampione, and Linosa, located in the Mediterranean Sea between Malta and Tunisia, south of Sicily.

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Shrubland

Shrubland, scrubland, scrub, brush, or bush is a plant community characterized by vegetation dominated by shrubs, often also including grasses, herbs, and geophytes.

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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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St Paul's Island

St Paul's Island (Maltese: Il-Gżejjer ta' San Pawl), also known as Selmunett, is a small island off Selmun, Mellieħa near the north of the island of Malta.

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Subspecies

In biological classification, subspecies (subspecies) is a rank below species, used for populations that live in different areas and vary in size, shape, or other physical characteristics (morphology), but that can successfully interbreed.

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References

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

Also known as Maltese Wall Lizard, Podarcis filfolensis.