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Mesalina martini (BOULENGER, 1897)

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Higher TaxaLacertidae, Eremiadinae, Sauria, Lacertoidea, Squamata (lizards)
Subspecies 
Common NamesE: Martin’s Desert Racer 
SynonymEremias martini BOULENGER 1897: 468
Eremias guttulata — BOULENGER 1896
Eremias guttulata martini — NEUMANN 1905
Mesalina olivieri martini — LANZA 1983
Mesalina olivieri martini — SZCZERBAK 1989
Mesalina martini — JOGER & MAYER 2002
Mesalina martini — SINDACO & JEREMČENKO 2008 
DistributionNortheastern Africa (coastal regions at the Red Sea),
SW Yemen, Egypt, Sudan (Jumhūriyyat), Eritrea, Ethiopia, NW Somalia, SW Arabia

Type locality: “about a mile from the coast of Odok”, Djibouti  
Reproductionoviparous 
TypesHolotype: unlocated (fide I. Doronin, pers. comm., Nov 2018). 
DiagnosisDiagnosis: Hind limbs reach the shoulder or the collar in males; the axil or shoulder in females. The ventral plates in 8 longitudinal series, the transverse series num- ber 26 to 34. Femoral pores 10 to 14 on each side. Grey or pale brown above, with two or three dark stripes on each side, the broadest, proceeding from the eye, separated from the lower by a white streak, and from the upper (if present) by a white or pale streak; the dark streaks often with black and white spots or ocelli (Boulenger, 1897; Boulenger, 1921, Yousefkhani et al. 2015). 
CommentType not in BMNH fide P. Campbell, pers. comm., 9 July 2014. 
EtymologyNamed after Dr. Henri Martin, who had an extensive private collection of reptiles. It was dispersed after his death, but the holotype of this lizard, obtained in 1895, was kept by his son for his own private collection. 
References
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