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Latastia longicaudata (REUSS, 1834)

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Higher TaxaLacertidae, Sauria (lizards) 
SubspeciesLatastia longicaudata andersonii BOULENGER, 1921
Latastia longicaudata lanzai ARILLO, BALLETTO & SPANO 1967
Latastia longicaudata longicaudata (REUSS, 1834)
Latastia longicaudata revoili (VAILLANT, 1882) 
Common NamesSouthern long-tailed lizard, Common Long-tailed Lizard 
SynonymLacerta longicaudata REUSS 1834
Lacerta samharica BLANFORD 1870
Lacerta sturti BLANFORD 1870
Latastia samharica — BEDRIAGA 1884: 13
Latastia longicaudata — BOULENGER 1895: 168
Latastia longicaudata — DREWES 1972
Latastia longicaudata — BROADLEY & HOWELL 1991: 18
Latastia longicaudata — LARGEN & SPAWLS 2010: 356

Latastia longicaudata andersonii BOULENGER, 1921
Latastia longicaudata andersonii — SINDACO & JEREMCENKO 2008

Latastia longicauda lanzai ARILLO, BALLETTO & SPANO 1967
Latastia lanzai — LANZA 1983
Latastia longicauda lanzai — LANZA 1988
Latastia longicauda lanzai — SPAWLS & ROTICH 1997
Latastia longicauda lanzai — KRONIGER & ZAWADZKI 2005

Latastia longicaudata revoili (VAILLANT 1882)
Eremias revoili VAILLANT 1882: 20
Latastia longicaudata revoili — PARKER 1932: 214
Latastia longicaudata revoili — MERTENS 1938
Latastia longicaudata revoili — LANZA 1988 
DistributionSenegal, Mali, up to Sudan and Egypt (including Sinai Peninsula), and up to Ethiopia and N Somalia, Yemen, S Ethiopia, Somalia, Kenya, N Tanzania, Cameroon (Böhme 1975), Central African Republic, Niger, Djibouti

andersonii: SW Arabia

lanzai: Somalia, Kenya, Ethiopia

revoili: Ethiopia, Kenya, south to ugogo, C Tanzania. Type locality: Somalia Map legend:
TDWG region - Region according to the TDWG standard, not a precise distribution map.

NOTE: TDWG regions are generated automatically from the text in the distribution field and this does not always work properly. We are working on it.
 
TypesLectotype: SMF 13601 
CommentLanza (1990) suggested that Kenyan specimens of this species belong to L. longicaudata lanzai. 
References
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