Mesalina martini (BOULENGER, 1897)
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Mesalina martini
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| Higher Taxa | Lacertidae, Eremiadinae, Sauria, Lacertoidea, Squamata (lizards) |
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| Common Names | E: Martin’s Desert Racer |
| Synonym | Eremias 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 |
| Distribution | Northeastern 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 |
| Reproduction | oviparous |
| Types | Holotype: unlocated (fide I. Doronin, pers. comm., Nov 2018). |
| Diagnosis | Diagnosis: 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). |
| Comment | Type not in BMNH fide P. Campbell, pers. comm., 9 July 2014. Reference images: see Uetz et al. 2024 for high-resolution reference images for this species. |
| Etymology | Named 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. |
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