Neither have that rapid movement, so characteristic of the genera Lacerta and Iguana. |
It was named Lacerta by Hevelius in 1690, and this name it still retains. |
The following description, taken in the main from my own observations, applies to Lacerta muralis. |
It is the Lacerta crocodilus of Linnus, from Greek a word of uncertain origin. |
Linnus mentions three species, which he places with his great genus Lacerta. |