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Western Green Lacerta
Lacerta bilineata (Daudin, 1802)

SSAR 9th Edition Comments:
 Native to western Europe. It was introduced in New Jersey (Conant, 1975, A Field Guide to Reptiles and Amphibians of Eastern and Central North America. 2nd edition, Houghton Mifflin, Boston, Massachusetts; Kraus, 2009, Alien Reptiles and Amphibians: A Scientific Compendium and Analysis. SpringerVerlag, Heidelberg, Germany) and is established in Topeka, Kansas (Collins, 1974, Amphibians and Reptiles in Kansas University of Kansas Museum of Natural History Public Education Series : 283 pp; Kalyabina-Hauf and Deichsel, 2002, Herpetological Review 33: 225–226).

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Province/State Distribution:
USA: Kansas

First instance(s) of published English names:
Green Lizard (Lacerta viridis: Gray, John E. 1830. A synopsis of the species of the class reptilia. Pages 1-110 in The Animal Kingdom Arranged in Conformity with its Organization by the Baron Cuvier, member of teh Institute of France, with Additional Descriptions of all the Species Hitherto Named, and of many not before noticed. Ninth Volume. Whittaker, Treacher, and Company, London, England. pp.);

Taxon Links:

  
Catalog of American Amphibians and Reptiles
  
The Reptile Database
  
NatureServe
  
iNaturalist
  
GenBank
  
USGS - Nonindigenous Aquatic Species Database

Selected References:
1802 Daudin, Francois M. Histoire naturelle des rainettes, des grenouilles et des crapauds. [Natural history of tree frogs, frogs and toads.] Quarto version. de L'imprimerie de Bertrandet, Rue de Sorbonne, Paris, France. 468pp.
1974 Collins, Joseph T. Amphibians and Reptiles in Kansas University of Kansas Museum of Natural History Public Education Series (1):283 pp
1996 Gubanyi, James E. Green Lacerta rediscovered in Topeka, Kansas. Kansas Herpetological Society Newsletter (106):15
1997 Miller, Larry L. Topeka Collegiate School summer research class yields specimen of Green Lacerta. Kansas Herpetological Society Newsletter (109):13
2000 Gubanyi, James E. Update on Lacerta in Topeka, Kansas. Kansas Herpetological Society Newsletter (118):13-14
2000 Gubanyi, James E. A breeding colony of Western Green Lacerta (Lacerta bilineata) confirmed in southwestern Topeka (Kansas). Transactions of the Kansas Academy of Science 103(3-4):191-192
2002 Kalyabina-Hauf, Svetlana A. and Guntram Deichsel. Geographic distribution. Lacerta bilineata (Western Green Lizard). Herpetological Review 33(3):225-226
2005 Godinho, Raquel, Eduardo G. Crespo, Nuno Ferrand, and D. James Harris. Phylogeny and evolution of the green lizards, Lacerta sp. (Squamata: Lacertidae) based on mitochondrial and nuclear DNA sequences. Amphibia-Reptilia 26(3):271-285
2010 Collins, Joseph T. and James E. Gubanyi. History and distribution of the Western Green Lacerta, Lacerta bilineta (Reptilia: Squamata: Lacertidae) in Topeka, Kansa. Journal of Kansas Herpetology (34):8-9

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