La lucertola gigante di El Hierro,

Gallotia simonyi (Steindachner, 1889)

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Classificazione - Regno: Animalia. Sottoregno: Eumetazoa. Phylum: Chordata. Subphylum: Vertebrata. Superclasse: Gnathostomata. Classe: Reptilia. Sottoclasse: Diapsida. Ordine: Squamata. Sottordine: Sauria. Famiglia: Lacertidae. Sottofamiglia: Gallotiinae. Genere: Gallotia.

Fonti bibliografiche principali -

Bibliografia - Arnold, E.N. 2003. Reptiles and Amphibians of Europe. Princeton University Press, Princeton and Oxford.

Baillie, J. and Groombridge, B. (compilers and editors) 1996. 1996 IUCN Red List of Threatened Animals. IUCN, Gland, Switzerland.

Barahona, F., Evans, S.E., Mateo, J.A., Garcia-Márquez, M. and López-Jurado, L.F. 2000. Endemism, gigantism and extinction in island lizards: the genus Gallotia on the Canary Islands. Journal of Zooloy, London 250: 373–388

Bischoff, W. 1985. Die Herpetofauna der Kanarischen Inseln. Herpetofauna 7(34): 11–22.

Bischoff, W. 1998. Bemerkungen zu den "fossilen" Rieseneidechsen der Kanarischen Inseln. In: W. Bischoff (ed.) Handbuch der Reptilien und Amphibien Europas. Bd. 6. Die Reptilien der Kanarischen Inseln, der Selvagens-Inseln und des Madeira Archipels. pp. 387-407 Aula-Verlag, Wiesbaden

Bischoff, W. 2000. Rieseneidechsen auf La Gomera. Elaphe 8(2): 78–81

Böhme, W. and Bings, W. 1975. Zur Frage des Überlebens von Lacerta s. simonyi Steindachner (Sauria: Lacertidae). Salamandra 11(1): 39–46

Carranza, S., Arnold, E.N., Thomas, R.H., Mateo, J.A. and López-Jurado, L.F. 1999. Status of the extinct giant lacertid lizard Gallotia simonyi simonyi (Reptilia: Lacertidae) assessed using mtDNA sequences from museum specimens. Herpetological Journal 9(2): 83–86

Groombridge, B. (ed.) 1994. 1994 IUCN Red List of Threatened Animals. IUCN, Gland, Switzerland.

Hernández, E., Nogales, N. and Martín, A. 2000. Discovery of a new lizard in the Canary Islands, with a multivariant analysis of Gallotia (Reptilia: Lacertidae). Herpetologica 56(1): 63–76

IUCN Conservation Monitoring Centre. 1986. 1986 IUCN Red List of Threatened Animals. IUCN, Gland, Switzerland and Cambridge, UK.

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IUCN. 1990. 1990 IUCN Red List of Threatened Animals. IUCN, Gland, Switzerland and Cambridge, UK.

López-Jurado, L.F. and Mateo, J.A. 1999. El Lagarto de El Hierro: Bases para su conservación. Monografías de Herpetología 4:

Pleguezuelos, J.M., Márquez, R. and Lizana, M. 2002. Atlas y Libro Rojo de los Anfibios y Reptiles de España. Dirección General de la Conservación de la naturaleza-Associación Herpetológica Española, Madrid.

Pérez-Mellado, V., Arano, B., Astudillo, G., Cejudo, D., García-Márquez, M., Llorente, G., Márquez, R., Mateo, J.A., Orrit, N., Romero-Beviá, M. and López-Jurado, L.-F. 1997. Recovery plan for the giant lizard of Hierro Island (Canary Islands), Gallotia simonyi: Project outline and preliminary results. In: W. Böhme, W. Bischoff, & T. Ziegler (eds) Herpetologia Bonnensis pp: 285-295.

Rodríguez-Domínguez, M.A., Castillo, C., Coello, J.J. and Molina-Borja, M. 1998. Morphological variation in the lacertid Gallotia simonyi machadoi and a comparison with the extinct Gallotia simonyi simonyi from el Hierro (Canary Islands). Herpetological Journal 8(2): 85–91