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Dear all!
The taxonomy of European lizards has changed drastically during the last decade or two. The classical fieldbooks such as Arnold and Overden seem out of date or lacking in detail. I need to know if there are any updated field guides with reliable keys for the European lizard fauna? If there are please include all details on the books, ISBN-number and where they can be ordered.

Thanks!

/Magnus

If it is reliable and up-to-date data you are after then I would suggest that you stick to peer-reviewed journals. As you say there have been many species splits over the last few years and these will render a published book out-of-date, whereas articles describing such splits should be recent and most importantly reliable. Hope this helps.

www.lacerta.de
No book can cope with that.

But what about skinks and geskos?

4 Gecko species - no problem.
At the skinks Arnold is (almost) still up to date.

...or you look into the Amphibians & Reptiles database, linked here

Skinks are all online with new systematics, also the geckos except one: Euleptes europaea - will follow the next days

Mario

Mario Schweiger wrote:also the geckos except one: Euleptes europaea - will follow the next days

Mario

done

Yes, it is really helpful. But in comparison with lacerta.de it lacks distribution maps and (sub)species list by country. Would be also great to note how to noninvasively distinguish subspecies and sexes if possible.

Michal Szkudlarek wrote:how to noninvasively distinguish subspecies

Why bother if (a) most of them are anachronistic concepts of long ago and (b) the vast majority is allopatric?

Michal Szkudlarek wrote:sexes if possible

Femoral pores for lacertids works fine for me. Other lizzies bit more difficult...