{{Short description|Genus of lizards}} {{Automatic taxobox | name = ''Timon'' | image = Benny Trapp Timon lepidus Jugendzeichnung Spanien.jpg | image_caption = ''Timon lepidus'' | taxon = Timon | authority = Tschudi, 1836 | subdivision_ranks = Species | subdivision = Six, see text. }}
'''''Timon''''' is a genus of wall lizards in the family Lacertidae.<ref name=uniprot-tp>{{cite web|title=Genus: ''Timon ''|url=http://pir.uniprot.org/taxonomy/399534|work=Uniprot: Taxonomy|publisher=UniProt Consortium|access-date=9 May 2011|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110824124506/http://pir.uniprot.org/taxonomy/399534|archive-date=24 August 2011}}</ref>
==Species== The genus ''Timon'' contains the following six species which are recognized as being valid.<ref>{{EMBL genus|genus=Timon}}. www.reptile-database.org.</ref> *''Timon kurdistanicus'' {{small|(Suchow, 1936)}} - Kurdistan lizard *''Timon lepidus'' {{small|(Daudin, 1802)}} - ocellated lizard, jewelled lizard *''Timon nevadensis'' {{small|(Buchholz, 1963)}} - Sierra Nevada lizard *''Timon pater'' {{small|(Lataste, 1880)}} *''Timon princeps'' {{small|(Blanford, 1874)}} - Siirt lizard, Zagrosian lizard *''Timon tangitanus'' {{small|(Boulenger, 1887)}} - Moroccan eyed lizard
''Nota bene'': A binomial authority in parentheses indicates that the species was originally described in a genus other than ''Timon''.
==References== {{Reflist}}
==Further reading== *Tschudi JJ (1836). "''Über ein neues ''Subgenus'' von ''Lacerta'' Cuv.''" ''Isis von Oken'' '''29''' (7): 546–551. (''Timon'', new subgenus, p. 551). (in German and Latin).
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Category:Timon (genus) Category:Lizard genera Category:Taxa named by Johann Jakob von Tschudi
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