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==Species and subspecies==
The genus ''Podarcis'' contains the following 27 species which are recognized as being valid.<ref name=RDB/> A few of the many recognized [[subspecies]] are also listed here.
*[[Bocage's wall lizard]], ''[[Podarcis bocagei]]'' {{small|([[:es:Víctor López Seoane|Seoane]], 1885)}}
*[[Carbonell's wall lizard]], ''[[Podarcis carbonelli]]'' {{small|[[Valenijk.ptín Pérez Mellado|Pérez Mellado]], 1981}}
*[[Cretan wall lizard]], ''[[Podarcis cretensis]]'' {{small|([[Otto von Wettstein|Wettstein]], 1952)}}
*[[Erhard's wall lizard]], ''[[Podarcis erhardii]]'' {{small|([[Jacques von Bedriaga|Bedriaga]], 1882)}}
*[[Maltese wall lizard]], ''[[Podarcis filfolensis]]'' {{small|(Bedriaga, 1876)}}
*[[Skyros wall lizard]], ''[[Podarcis gaigeae]]'' {{small|([[Franz Werner|F. Werner]], 1930)}}<!-- (formerly in ''P. taurica'') -->
*''[[Podarcis galerai]]'' {{small|Bassitta, Buades, Pérez‐Cembranos, Pérez‐Mellado, Terrasa, Brown, Navarro, Lluch, Ortega, Castro, Picornell, & Ramon, 2020}}
*''[[Podarcis guadarramae]]'' {{small|([[:es:Eduardo Boscá|Boscá]], 1916)}}
*[[Iberian wall lizard]], ''[[Podarcis hispanicus]]'' {{small|([[Franz Steindachner|Steindachner]], 1870)}}
*[[Crimean wall lizard]], ''[[Podarcis ionicus]]'' {{small|(Lehrs, 1902)}}
*[[Pontian wall lizard]], ''[[Podarcis latastei]]'' {{small|(Bedriaga, 1879)}}
*''[[Podarcis levendis]]'' {{small|[[Petros Lymberakis|Lymberakis]], [[Nikos Poulakakis|Poulakakis]], [[Antigoni Kaliontzopoulou|Kaliontzopoulou]], [[Efitratios Valakos|Valakos]] & [[Moysis Mylonas|Mylonas]], 2008}}
*[[Lilford's wall lizard]], ''[[Podarcis lilfordi]]'' {{small|([[Albert Günther|Günther]], 1874)}}
** [[Ratas Island lizard]], ''[[Podarcis lilfordi rodriquezi]]'' {{small|([[Lorenz Müller|L. Müller]], 1927)}}, [[extinct]], 1950
*[[Podarcis liolepis|Catalan wall lizard]], ''[[Podarcis liolepis]]'' {{small|([[George Albert Boulenger|Boulenger]], 1905)}}
*''[[Podarcis lusitanicus]]'' {{small|(Geniez, Sa-Sousa, Guilliaume, Cluchier, & Crochet, 2014)}}
*[[Dalmatian wall lizard]], ''[[Podarcis melisellensis]]'' {{small|([[Maximilian Christian Gustav Carl Braun|Braun]], 1877)}}
*[[Milos wall lizard]], ''[[Podarcis milensis]]'' {{small|(Bedriaga, 1882)}}
*[[Podarcis muralis|Common or European wall lizard]], ''[[Podarcis muralis]]'' {{small|([[Josephus Nicolaus Laurenti|Laurenti]], 1768)}}
*[[Peloponnese wall lizard]], ''[[Podarcis peloponnesiacus]]'' {{small|([[Gabriel Bibron|Bibron]] & [[Jean Baptiste Bory de Saint-Vincent|Bory de Saint-Vincent]], 1833)}}
*[[Ibiza wall lizard]], ''[[Podarcis pityusensis]]'' {{small|(Boscá, 1883)}}
*[[Aeolian wall lizard]], ''[[Podarcis raffonei]]'' {{small|([[Robert Mertens|Mertens]], 1952)}}
*[[Italian wall lizard]], ''[[Podarcis siculus]]'' {{small|([[Constantine Samuel Rafinesque|Rafinesque]], 1810)}}
**[[Santo Stefano lizard]], ''[[Santo Stefano lizard|Podarcis siculus sanctistephani]]'' {{small|(Mertens, 1926)}}, extinct, 1965
*[[Balkan wall lizard]], ''[[Podarcis tauricus]]'' {{small|([[Peter Simon Pallas|Pallas]], 1814)}}
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**''Podarcis tauricus ionicus''
**''Podarcis tauricus tauricus''
**''Podarcis tauricus thasopulae''
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*[[Tyrrhenian wall lizard]], ''[[Podarcis tiliguerta]]'' {{small|([[Johann Friedrich Gmelin|Gmelin]], 1789)}}
*[[Andalusian wall lizard]], ''[[Podarcis vaucheri]]'' {{small|(Boulenger, 1905)}}
*''[[Podarcis virescens]]'' {{small|[[Philippe Geniez|Geniez]], [[Paulo Sá-Sousa|Sá-Sousa]], [[Claude P. Guillaume|Guillaume]], [[Alexandre Cluchier|Cluchier]] & [[Pierre André Crochet|Crochet]], 2014}}
*[[Sicilian wall lizard]], ''[[Podarcis waglerianus]]'' {{small|([[Johannes von Nepomuk Franz Xaver Gistel|Gistel]], 1868)}}

''[[Nota bene]]'': A [[Binomial nomenclature|binomial authority]] or [[Trinomen|trinomial authority]] in parentheses indicates that the species or subspecies was originally described in a genus other than ''Podarcis''.