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Genus of lizards

Mesalina

Small-spotted lizard (Mesalina guttulata)
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Reptilia
Order:	Squamata
Family:	Lacertidae
Subfamily:	Lacertinae
Genus:	Mesalina Gray, 1838
Species
20 species, see text.

Mesalina is a genus of wall lizards of the family Lacertidae.

Species

The following 20 described species are recognized as being valid.

Mesalina adramitana (Boulenger, 1917) – Hadramaut sand lizard
Mesalina adrarensis Pizzigalli, Crochet, Geniez, Martínez-Freiría, Velo-Antón & Brito, 2021
Mesalina arnoldi Sindaco, Simó-Riudalbas, Sacchi & Carranza, 2018
Mesalina austroarabica Sindaco, Simó-Riudalbas, Sacchi & Carranza, 2018
Mesalina ayunensis Arnold, 1980 – Ayun sand lizard, Arnold's sand lizard
Mesalina bahaeldini Segoli, Cohen & Y. Werner, 2002
Mesalina balfouri (Blanford, 1881)
Mesalina bernoullii (Schenkel, 1901) – Bernoulli's short-nosed desert lizard
Mesalina brevirostris Blanford, 1874 – Blanford's short-nosed desert lizard
Mesalina ercolinii (Lanza & Poggesi, 1975)
Mesalina guttulata (Lichtenstein, 1823) – small-spotted lizard
Mesalina kuri Joger & Mayer, 2002
Mesalina martini (Boulenger, 1897) – Martin's desert racer
Mesalina microlepis (Angel, 1936) – small-scaled desert lizard
Mesalina olivieri (Audouin, 1829) – Olivier's sand lizard
Mesalina pasteuri (Bons, 1960) – Pasteur's lizard
Mesalina rubropunctata (Lichtenstein, 1823) – red-spotted lizard
Mesalina saudiarabica Moravec, Šmíd, Schmitz, Shobrak & Wilms, 2017
Mesalina simoni (Boettger, 1881) – Simon's desert racer
Mesalina watsonana (Stoliczka, 1872) – Persian long-tailed desert lizard

Nota bene: A binomial authority in parentheses indicates that the species was originally described in a genus other than Mesalina.