Mesalina Gray, 1838

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 : 39

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Mesalina Gray, 1838

A member of the Eremiadini tribe closely related to Acanthodactylus , Eremias , Omanosaura , and Ophisops . However, closer phylogenetic relationships among these genera remain unresolved even after a number of phylogenetic studies based on both morphological and genetic data ( Arnold 1989; Harris et al. 1998; Fu 1999, 2000; Mayer & Pavlicev 2007; Greenbaum et al. 2011; Kapli et al. 2011; Pyron et al. 2013).

References

Arnold, E. N. (1989) Toward a phylogeny and biogeography of the Lacertidae: relationships within an Old-World family of lizards derived from morphology. Bulletin of the British Museum (Zoology), 55, 209 - 257.

Fu, J. (1999) Phylogeny of Lacertid lizards (Squamata: Lacertidae) and the evolution of unisexuality. PhD thesis, University of Toronto, Toronto, 168 pp.

Greenbaum, E., Villanueva, C. O., Kusamba, C., Aristote, M. M. & Branch, W. R. (2011) A molecular phylogeny of Equatorial African Lacertidae, with the description of a new genus and species from eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society, 163, 913 - 942. http: // dx. doi. org / 10.1111 / j. 1096 - 3642.2011.00732. x

Harris, D. J., Arnold, E. N. & Thomas, R. T. (1998) Relationships of lacertid lizards (Reptilia: Lacertidae) estimated from mitochondrial DNA sequences and morphology. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London, B, 265, 1939 - 1948. http: // dx. doi. org / 10.1098 / rspb. 1998.0524

Kapli, P., Poulakakis, N., Lymbeakis, P. & Mylonas, M. (2011) A re-analysis of the molecular phylogeny of Lacertidae with currently available data. Basic and Applied Herpetology, 25, 97 - 104.

Mayer, W. & Pavlicev, M. (2007) The phylogeny of the family Lacertidae (Reptilia) based on nuclear DNA sequences: Convergent adaptations to arid habitats within the subfamily Eremiainae. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution, 44, 1155 - 1163. http: // dx. doi. org / 10.1016 / j. ympev. 2007.05.015

Pyron, R., Burbrink, F. & Wiens, J. (2013) A phylogeny and revised classification of Squamata, including 4161 species of lizards and snakes. BMC Evolutionary Biology, 13, 93. http: // dx. doi. org / 10.1186 / 1471 - 2148 - 13 - 93