{{Short description|Species of lizard}} {{Speciesbox | image = Timon princeps.JPG | status = LC | status_system = IUCN3.1 | status_ref = <ref name="iucn status 18 November 2021">{{cite iucn |author=Varol Tok, Ishmail Ugurtas, Murat Sevinç, Pierre-André Crochet, Yakup Kaska, Yusuf Kumlutaş, Aziz Avci |date=2009 |title=''Timon princeps'' |volume=2009 |article-number=e.T164629A5913265 |doi=10.2305/IUCN.UK.2009.RLTS.T164629A5913265.en |access-date=18 November 2021}}</ref> | genus = Timon | species = princeps | authority = (Blanford, 1874) | synonyms = *''Lacerta princeps'' <br />{{small|Blanford, 1874}} *''Timon princeps'' <br />{{small|— Mayer & Bischoff, 1996}} | synonyms_ref = <ref name=RDB/> }} [[File:LacertaPrinceps.jpg|thumb|Illustration of ''T. princeps'', by G.H. Ford, from Blanford (1876).]]
'''''Timon princeps''''', commonly called the '''Siirt lizard''' or the '''Zagrosian lizard''', is a species of lizard in the family Lacertidae (wall lizards). The species is endemic to Western Asia.
==Geographic range== ''Timon princeps'' is native to southwestern Iran (central Zagros Mountains near Shiraz), northern Iraq, northeastern Syria, and southeastern Turkey.<ref name=RDB>{{EMBL species|genus=Timon|species=princeps}}. www.reptile-database.org.</ref>
==Reproduction== ''T. princeps'' is oviparous.<ref name=RDB/>
==References== {{Reflist}}
==External links== <!-- *[http://srs.embl-heidelberg.de:8000/srs5bin/cgi-bin/wgetz?-e+REPTILIA-Species SRSWWW server at EMBL-Heidelberg].{{Dead link|date=July 2018|bot=InternetArchiveBot|fix-attempted=no}} --> *Photos: [http://www.lacerta.de/Seiten_Bildarchiv/Timon_princeps_kurdistanicus_(Bilder).html multiple pictures]
==Further reading== *Blanford WT (1874). "Descriptions of new Reptilia and Amphibia from Persia and Baluchistán". ''The Annals and Magazine of Natural History, Fourth Series'' '''14''': 31–35. (''Lacerta princeps'', new species, p. 31). (in English and Latin). *Blanford WT (1876). ''Eastern Persia: An Account of the Journeys of the Persian Boundary Commission 1870–71–72. Vol. II. Zoology and Geology.'' Published by the Authority of the Government of India. London: Macmillan and Co. viii + 516 pp. + Plates I-XXVIII. (''Lacerta princeps'', pp. 364–367 + Plate XXIV). *Boulenger GA (1887). ''Catalogue of the Lizards in the British Museum (Natural History). Second Edition. Volume III. Lacertidæ ...'' London: Trustees of the British Museum (Natural History). (Taylor and Francis, printers). xii + 575 pp. + Plates I-XL. (''Lacerta princeps'', pp. 18–19). *Mayer, Werner; Bischoff, Wolfgang (1996). "''Beiträge zur taxonomischen Revision der Gattung ''Lacerta'' (Reptilia: Lacertidae). Tiel 1: ''Zootoca, Omanosaura, Timon'' und ''Teira'' als eigenständige Gattungen'' [Contributions to the taxonomic revision of the genus ''Lacerta'' (Reptilia: Lacertidae). Part 1: ''Zootoca, Omanosaura, Timon'' and ''Teira'' as full genera]". ''Salamandra'' '''32''' (3): 163–170. (''Timon princeps'', new combination, p. 169). (in German, with an abstract in English).
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Category:Timon (genus) Category:Reptiles described in 1874 Category:Taxa named by William Thomas Blanford
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