Lacerta Linnaeus, 1758

Šmíd, Jiří, Moravec, Jiří, Kodym, Petr, Kratochvíl, Lukáš, Yousefkhani, Seyyed Saeed Hosseinian, Rastegar-Pouyani, Eskandar & Frynta, Daniel, 2014, Annotated checklist and distribution of the lizards of Iran, Zootaxa 3855 (1), pp. 1-97 : 38

Lacerta Linnaeus, 1758

The composite genus Lacerta that previously contained a majority of species of Lacertinae was definitely split into several genera by Arnold et al. (2007). Based on their detailed study supported by genetic and morphological data the genus today consists only of the following species: Lacerta agilis , L. bilineata , L. media , L. pamphylica , L. schreiberi , L. strigata , L. trilineata , and L. viridis . The enigmatic species, L. mostoufii Baloutch (type locality in the Dasht-e Lut), never seen again since its description was retracted from the Iranian lizard fauna by Ahmadzadeh et al. (2013a) after in den Bosch (1999) and Eiselt (1995) brought evidence that the only known specimens were lost (holotype) or misidentified D. praticola (paratype) and that the description was probably based on material originated from different parts of Iran that was mixed-up by Baloutch with collections from Dasht-e Lut ( Baloutch 1977; Anderson 1999, p. 239).