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Higher TaxaLacertidae, Lacertinae, Sauria, Lacertoidea, Squamata (lizards)
SubspeciesIberolacerta monticola astur ARRIBAS & GALÁN 2014
Iberolacerta monticola monticola (BOULENGER 1905) 
Common NamesE: Iberian Mountain Lizard
G: Iberische Gebirgseidechse 
SynonymLacerta monticola BOULENGER 1905: 365
Lacerta monticola cantabrica MERTENS 1929
Lacerta monticola cantabrica — MERTENS & MÜLLER 1940
Lacerta monticola monticola — MERTENS & MÜLLER 1940
Lacerta monticola cantabrica — HENLE 1984
Lacerta monticola — ENGELMANN et al 1993
Archaeolacerta monticola — ARRIBAS 1996
Iberolacerta (Iberolacerta) monticola — ARRIBAS 1997
Lacerta (Archaeolacerta) monticola — FU 2000
Iberolacerta monticola — CROCHET et al. 2004
Lacerta (Iberolacerta) monticola — CARRANZA et al. 2004
Iberolacerta monticola — MONTORI et al. 2005
Iberolacerta monticola — ARNOLD et al. 2007
Lacerta (Iberolacerta) monticola — SINDACO & JEREMČENKO 2008
Lacerta (Iberolacerta) monticola cantabrica — SINDACO & JEREMČENKO 2008
Iberolacerta monticola cantabrica — KWET & TRAPP 2014
Iberolacerta monticola — SPEYBROECK et al. 2020

Iberolacerta monticola astur ARRIBAS & GALÁN 2014
Lacerta monticola — SALVADOR 1984 (partim)
Lacerta monticola BOULENGER 1905 (partim)
Iberolacerta monticola astur ARRIBAS & GALÁN in ARRIBAS et al. 2014
Iberolacerta monticola astur — GEMEL et al. 2019: 122 
DistributionPortugal (Serra da Estrela), Spain (Cantabrian Mts., Galicia)

Type locality: restricted to S da Estrella (MERTENS & MÜLLER 1928).

astur: NW Spain (Northern Montes de León)

cantabrica: NW Spain; paratype locality: Rodiezmo, Cantabrisches Gebirge, NW-Spanien  
Reproductionoviparous 
TypesLectotype: BMNH 85.12.30.15 (fide Arribas & Carranza 2012). BMNH 1946.9.1.18, a former type of I. monticola from Spain, turned out to be I. cyreni (Arribas & Carranza 2012).
Holotype: SMF 22098, paratypes: NMW 16089:1,2 [cantabrica]
Holotype: MNCN (Museo Nacional de Ciencias Naturales. Madrid, Spain) 44652, Salientes (Palacios del Sil, León, Spain), 15.08.2009; paratypes: MNCN, collection Arribas; Coll. O. Arribas [astur] 
DiagnosisDiagnosis (genus): Lizards possessing the following features found only in a minority of other Lacertini: rostral and frontonasal scales frequently in contact, one postnasal scale, supranasal and anterior loreal scales often contacting each other, no microchromosomes, number of macrochromosomes 36 or fewer, reduced in some cases to 26 or 24 in males and 25 or 23 in females, embryos often partly developed at egg-laying. Other more widely distributed features include: head and body depressed and supraocular osteoderms often fenestrated in adults, seven to nine premaxillary teeth, usual number of presacral vertebrae 26 in males; inscriptional ribs present or absent, tail brightly coloured in hatchlings, hemipenial microornamentation consisting of crown-shaped tubercles or hook-shaped spines (from Arnold et al. 2007: 45). 
CommentType Species: Lacerta muralis, var. monticola Boulenger, 1905 is the type species of the genus Iberolacerta ARRIBAS 1999 (not 1997, as sometimes claimed, see ICZN Opinion 2461).

Synonymy: Lacerta monticola cantabrica is a synonym of I. m. monticola fide O. Arribas, pers. comm. 31 Dec 2020.

Karyotypes: Naveira et al. 2023 
EtymologyThe species name, ‘monticola’, is Latin for ‘inhabitant of the mountains’ (Latin “colere” = inhabiting).

The genus was named after its occurrence in Iberia and Latin “lacerta” = lizard. 
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