Timon pater

Timon pater is a species of lizard in the family Lacertidae,[2] the wall lizards. The species is endemic to Northwest Africa.

Timon pater
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Reptilia
Order: Squamata
Family: Lacertidae
Genus: Timon
Species:
T. pater
Binomial name
Timon pater
(Lataste, 1880)
Synonyms[1]
  • Lacerta ocellata pater
    Lataste, 1880
  • Lacerta lepida pater
    — Angel, 1946
  • Lacerta pater
    — Bischoff, 1982
  • Timon pater
    — Mayer & Bischoff, 1996

Geographic range

Timon pater is native to Algeria, Tunisia, and Morocco.

Reproduction

T. pater is oviparous.[1]

References
  1. Species Timon pater at The Reptile Database . www.reptile-database.org.
  2. "Species: Timon pater ". Uniprot: Taxonomy. UniProt Consortium. Archived from the original on 24 August 2011. Retrieved 9 May 2011.

Further reading
  • Boulenger GA (1887). Catalogue of the Lizards in the British Museum (Natural History). Second Edition. Volume III. Lacertidæ ... London Trustees of the British Museum (Natural History). (Taylor and Francis, printers). xii + 575 pp. + Plates I-XL. (Lacerta ocellata Var. pater, p. 13).
  • Lataste F (1880). "Diagnoses de reptiles nouveaux d'Algérie ". Le Naturaliste 1 (39): 299, 306–307. (Lacerta ocellata pater, new subspecies, pp. 306-307). (in French).
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