Santo Stefano Lizard

Santo Stefano Lizard

Taxobox
name = Santo Stefano Lizard
status = EX
extinct = 1965
regnum = Animalia
phylum = Chordata
classis = Reptilia
ordo = Squamata
familia = Lacertidae
genus = "Podarcis"
species = "P. sicula" (Italian Wall Lizard)
subspecies = "P. s. sanctistephani"
trinomial = "Podarcis sicula sanctistephani"
trinomial_authority = (Mertens, 1926)

The Santo Stefano lizard lived on Santo Stefano Island a small island near Ventotene in the Tyrrhenian sea off the west coast of Italy, and part of the Pontine Islands. It became extinct in 1965, probably caused by feral cats and a snake species. These animals destroyed almost the whole population and any survivors seem to have interbred with an introduced subspecies. An epidemic of an unknown pathogen that followed wiped out the majority of the population and contributed to this subspecies' extinction.

References

* David Day, 1981, The Doomsday Book of Animals, Ebury Press, London.

See also

* List of extinct animals of Europe

External links

* [http://extinct.petermaas.nl The Extinction Website]


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