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Higher TaxaLacertidae, Eremiadinae, Sauria, Lacertoidea, Squamata (lizards)
Subspecies 
Common NamesE: Small-spotted Lizard, Desert Lacerta
G: Gefleckter Wüstenrenner 
SynonymLacerta guttulata LICHTENSTEIN 1823: 101
Scapteira punctulata GRAY 1838: 281
Eremias guttulata — DUMÉRIL & BIBRON 1839: 310
Eremias pardalis DUMÉRIL & BIBRON 1839: 312
Mesalina pardalis GRAY 1845
Podarces (Mesalina) pardalis — BOETTGER 1885: 469
Eremias pardaloides BOULENGER 1887
Eremias guttulata — ANDERSON 1896: 43
Eremias guttulata — ANDERSON 1901: 145
Eremias guttulata — WERNER 1931: 291
Eremias guttulata guttulata — LOVERIDGE 1936: 62
Eremias guttulata guttulata — SCHMIDT & MARX 1956
Eremias guttulata guttulata — HAAS 1957
Eremias guttulata guttulata — PAPENFUSS 1969
Mesalina guttulata — SZCZERBAK 1975
Eremias guttulata — JOHANN 1981
Mesalina guttulata — SCHÄTTI & GASPERETTI 1994
Eremias guttulata — DAS 1996: 49
Mesalina guttulata — SCHLEICH, KÄSTLE & KABISCH 1996: 417
Mesalina guttulata — KRONIGER & ZAWADZKI 2005
Eremias guttulata — MURTHY 2010
Mesalina cf. guttulata — SINDACO et al. 2014
Mesalina guttulata guttulata — MOHAMMED et al. 2017 
DistributionSenegal, Niger, NE Sudan (Jumhūriyyat), Morocco, Western Sahara, Algeria, Tunisia, Libya, Egypt, Jordan, Syria, Sinai, Saudi Arabia (incl. Farasan Islands), Kuwait, Iran (Kavir desert), Iraq, S Turkmenistan, Afghanistan, India (Rajasthan)

Type locality: Egypt  
Reproductionoviparous 
TypesSyntypes: ZMB 1117-1120 
DiagnosisDiagnosis: Occipital in contact with interparietal; curved collar; transparent disc of lower eyelid comprising two major scales, with black vertical bar; upper labials anterior to subocular usually 4, exceptionally 5. Ventral plates in 10 straight longitudinal rows. Scales on the upper surface of the tibia keeled. Lamella under 4th toe, 20 – 25. Scales on ventral side of tail smooth. Dorsal coloration of adult usually generally greyish, with more or less distinct black-and-white ocelli (or white dots flanked by black specks on one or either side), sometimes arranged in longitudinal or transverse rows. Key head shields symmetrical. Supralabials, 9 or 10; gulars, 24; plates in collar, 11. Dorsal scales across midbody, 48; ventrals across belly, 10; transverse rows of ventrals, 30; subdigital lamellae, 22; femoral pores, 12 – 13 (Lichtenstein and Hinrich, 1823; Schleich, 1996, Yousefkhani et al. 2015).


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CommentSynonymy partly after KHALIKOV & ANANJEVA (pers. comm.). The subspecies M. g. watsonana has been elevated to full species status.

Distribution: Not in Pakistan fide KHAN 2004. Not in Israel (and probably nearby countries) where it is replaced by M. bahaeldini. See map in Kapli et al. 2008: 104 (Fig. 1). 
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