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FULL ACCOUNT FOR: Podarcis sicula Podarcis sicula System: Terrestrial Kingdom Phylum Class Order Family Animalia Chordata Reptilia Squamata Lacertidae Common name Italian wall lizard (English), Lagartija Italiana (Spanish) Synonym Podarcis sicula , (Rafinesque, 1810) Similar species Summary view this species on IUCN Red List Principal source: Compiler: IUCN SSC Invasive Species Specialist Group Review: Pubblication date: 2012-01-22 ALIEN RANGE [1] SPAIN [1] TURKEY [1] UNITED STATES Red List assessed species 1: CR = 1; Podarcis raffonei CR BIBLIOGRAPHY 4 references found for Podarcis sicula Managment information General information Capula, Massimo; Luiselli, Luca; Bologna, Marco A.; Ceccarelli, Arianna, 2002. The decline of the Aeolian wall lizard, Podarcis raffonei: Causes and conservation proposals. Oryx. 36(1). January 2002. 66-72. Corti, Claudia; P?rez-Mellado, Valentin; Sindaco, Roberto; Romano, Antonio; 2009. Podarcis raffonei. In: IUCN 2011. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2011.2. Summary: Available from: http://www.iucnredlist.org/apps/redlist/details/61552/0 [Accessed 15 Januray 2012) Integrated Taxonomic Information Facility (ITIS), 2012. Podarcis sicula (Rafinesque, 1810) Summary: Available from: http://www.itis.gov/servlet/SingleRpt/SingleRpt?search_topic=TSN&search_value=564588 [Accessed 23 March 2012] Global Invasive Species Database (GISD) 2021. Species profile Podarcis sicula. Pag. 1 Available from: http://www.iucngisd.org/gisd/species.php?sc=1858 [Accessed 25 September 2021] FULL ACCOUNT FOR: Podarcis sicula Jelka Crnobrnja Isailovic, Milan Vogrin, Claudia Corti, Valentin P?rez Mellado, Paulo S?-Sousa, Marc Cheylan, Juan Pleguezuelos, Roberto Sindaco, Antonio Romano, Jelka Crnobrnja Isailovic, Aziz Avci 2009. Podarcis siculus. In: IUCN 2011. IUCN Red L Summary: Available from: http://www.iucnredlist.org/apps/redlist/details/61553/0 [Accessed 23 March 2012] Global Invasive Species Database (GISD) 2021. Species profile Podarcis sicula. Pag. 2 Available from: http://www.iucngisd.org/gisd/species.php?sc=1858 [Accessed 25 September 2021].

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