Tarentola mauritanica

Familia: Phyllodactylidae
Genus: Tarentola
Species:
Subspecies (3): T. m. juliae – T. m. mauritanica – T. m. pallida

Tarentola mauritanica (Linnaeus, 1758)

• Type material: unknown.
• Type locality: “Mauritania”.

• Lacerta mauritanica Linnaeus, 1758: 202 [original combination]
• Tarentola mauritanica — Gray, 1845 [subsequent combination]

• Homotypic
  • Platydactylus muralis Duméril & Bibron, 1836 nom. illeg.

• Linnaeus, C. 1758. Systema Naturae per regna tria naturae, secundum classes, ordines, genera, species, cum characteribus, differentiis, synonymis, locis. Editio Decima, Reformata. Tomus I. Holmiæ (Stockholm): impensis direct. Laurentii Salvii. 824 pp. DOI: 10.5962/bhl.title.542 BHL Reference page. 

• Uetz, P., Freed, P., Aguilar, R., F. Reyes, J. Kudera & Hošek, J. (eds.) 2025. Tarentola mauritanica. The Reptile Database. Accessed on 17 June 2022.
• Vogrin, M., Corti, C., Pérez Mellado, V., Baha El Din, S. & Martínez-Solano, I. 2017. IUCN: Tarentola mauritanica  (Least Concern). The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2017: e.T61578A63716927. DOI: 10.2305/IUCN.UK.2017-2.RLTS.T61578A63716927.en. Accessed on 17 June 2022.

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