Nucras
Encyclopedia
Nucras is a genus
of wall lizards of the family
Lacertidae
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Genus
In biology, a genus is a low-level taxonomic rank used in the biological classification of living and fossil organisms, which is an example of definition by genus and differentia...
of wall lizards of the family
Family (biology)
In biological classification, family is* a taxonomic rank. Other well-known ranks are life, domain, kingdom, phylum, class, order, genus, and species, with family fitting between order and genus. As for the other well-known ranks, there is the option of an immediately lower rank, indicated by the...
Lacertidae
Lacertidae
Lacertidae is the family of the wall lizards, true lizards, or sometimes simply lacertas, which are native to Europe, Africa, and Asia. The group includes the genus Lacerta, which contains some of the most commonly seen lizard species in Europe...
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Species
- Nucras boulengeri
- Nucras caesicaudataNucras caesicaudataBlue-tailed sandveld lizard is a wall lizard species of the genus Nucras and the family of true lizards . It is found in southern Mozambique, southwestern Zimbabwe and the extreme northeast of South Africa. The lizard can clearly be distinguished because of its distinctive blue tail...
- Nucras intertexta
- Nucras lalandii
- Nucras livida
- Nucras scalaris
- Nucras taeniolata
- Nucras tessellataNucras tessellataNucras tessellata , or the Western or Striped Sandveld Lizard, occurs along the west coast of Southern Africa, being found in the Western Cape, Tankwa Karoo National Park, Richtersveld, Botswana, Kalahari Gemsbok National Park and Namibia. Although preferring arid, sandy areas they also stray into...