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{{Short description|Genus of lizards}} {{More citations needed|date=March 2016}} {{Automatic taxobox | fossil_range = {{Fossil range|2.58|0}}<small>[[Pleistocene]] – Recent<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Bover |first1=Pere |title=The Cova des Pas de Vallgornera (Llucmajor, Mallorca): a singular deposit bearing an exceptional well preserved Early Pleistocene vertebrate fauna |journal=International Journal of Speleology |date=2014 |volume=43 |issue=2 |pages=175–192 |doi=10.5038/1827-806X.43.2.6 |url=https://digitalcommons.usf.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1792&context=ijs|doi-access=free }}</ref></small> | image = Extensive introgression and mosaic genomes of Mediterranean endemic lizards (2021) fig. 1.1.png | image_caption = Male phenotypes of six wall lizard species: ''[[Podarcis siculus|P. siculus]]'' (top left), ''[[Podarcis filfolensis|P. filfolensis]]'' (top right), ''[[Podarcis erhardii|P. erhardii]]'' (middle left), ''[[Podarcis tauricus|P. tauricus]]'' (middle right), ''[[Podarcis waglerianus|P. waglerianus]]'' (bottom left) and ''[[Podarcis muralis|P. muralis]]'' (bottom right). | taxon = Podarcis | authority = [[Johann Georg Wagler|Wagler, 1830]]<ref>"''Podarcis'' ". ITIS (Integrated Taxonomic Information System). www.itis.gov.</ref><ref name=RDB>{{EMBL genus|genus=Podarcis}}. www.reptile-database.org.</ref><ref>"''Podarcis'' ". ''Dahms Tierleben''. www.dahmstierleben.de.</ref> }} '''''Podarcis''''' is a [[genus]] of [[lizard]]s, known colloquially as '''wall lizards''', in the [[Family (biology)|family]] [[Lacertidae]]. Its members look very similar to lizards of the genus ''[[Lacerta (genus)|Lacerta]]'', to which they were considered to belong until the 1970s. While similar externally and ecologically, ''Podarcis'' form a distinct group differing from ''Lacerta'' by the construction of the skull and the [[hemipenis]], and by the processes of the caudal vertebrae.<ref>{{cite book|last1=Wendler|first1=Günter Diesener; Josef Reichholf. Hrsg. von Gunter Steinbach. Ill. von Fritz|title=Lurche und Kriechtiere|date=1996|publisher=Mosaik-Verl.|location=München|isbn=3-576-10697-9|edition=Neue, bearb. Sonderausg.}}</ref> Wall lizards are native to [[Europe]] and northern [[Africa]], and most species are restricted to the [[Mediterranean]] region. Wall lizards [[Genetic divergence|diversified]] and hybridized during the [[Messinian salinity crisis]].<ref>{{cite news |last=Schuster |first=Ruth |url=https://www.haaretz.com/archaeology/.premium-why-wall-lizards-are-the-most-successful-reptile-in-the-mediterranean-1.9822549 |title=Why Wall Lizards Are the Most Successful Reptile in the Mediterranean |work=Haaretz |publisher=Haaretz English Edition |date=2021-05-19 |accessdate=2021-05-20 }}</ref> The [[Italian wall lizard]] and the [[common wall lizard]] have been [[Introduced species|introduced]] to [[North America]], where they have become intermediate hosts for some [[Acuariidae]] larvae.<ref>{{cite journal |title=Depauperate Parasite Faunas in Introduced Populations of Podarcis (Squamata: Lacertidae) Lizards in North America |journal=Journal of Herpetology |year=2007 |last1=Burke |first1=Russell L. |last2=Goldberg |first2=Stephen R. |last3=Bursey |first3=Charles R. |last4=Perkins |first4=Susan L. |last5=Andreadis |first5=Paul T. |volume=41 |issue=4 |pages=755–757 |doi=10.1670/07-023.1 |jstor=40060472 |s2cid=86797774 |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/40060472 |accessdate=2021-05-20 |url-access=subscription }}</ref>
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