family Lacertidae

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Related to family Lacertidae: Iguanidae

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family Lacertidae - Old World lizards

Lacertidae

reptile family - a family of reptiles

Lacertilia, Sauria, suborder Lacertilia, suborder Sauria - true lizards; including chameleons and geckos

lacertid, lacertid lizard - Old World terrestrial lizard

genus Lacerta, Lacerta - type genus of the Lacertidae

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Now we will go on with the inferior row of Figure 22 and Figure 23, illustrating characteristic features of the African and Euro-Asiatic great family Lacertidae, with more than 220 species and 25 genera.

Estudios comparativos de la lepidosis supra-ocular en Squamata (Reptilia) y su relacion con la taxonomia evolucionaria

agilis, family Lacertidae) is a small ([less than] 20 g) species in which most adult males and females mate more than once per season, with more than one partner.

Advantages of multiple matings to females: a test of the infertility hypothesis using lizards