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Green lizards, wall lizards and their relatives live in Europe and Africa as well as Asia. None occur in the Americas or Australia. Many can shed their tail to escape a predator. It then grows back. They bask in the sun on walls and stones. They eat mostly insects.
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Lacertidae
Lacerta schreiberi · Least concern
The Iberian emerald lizard lives only in Spain and Portugal. The Portuguese call it the water lizard and the Spanish the green and black lizard. It honours Egid Schreiber, the Austrian zoologist who wrote Herpetologia Europaea in 1875. Its tail makes up most of its 38 cm.
Photo: Adrian198cm (Public domain)
Lacertidae
Lacerta bilineata · Least concern
Its name bilineata, Latin for 'with two lines', refers to the pale stripes on the flanks of the young. Native from Spain and France to Serbia and the Channel Islands, it has also been introduced to the United States, and colonies live on the south coast of England around Poole Bay in Dorset. Females lay 6 to 25 eggs in a warm, damp spot such as a rotting log.
Photo: Mariomassone (CC BY-SA 4.0)
Lacertidae
Lacerta viridis · Least concern
Its tail can be twice as long as its body: 15 cm of lizard, up to 40 cm in all. This large, bright green lizard of Europe's mid-latitudes lives from Slovenia and Austria to the Black Sea. The European green lizard is often seen basking on rocks or lawns early and late in the day, and like many lizards, it can shed its tail to escape.
Photo: Uoaei1 (CC BY-SA 4.0)
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