Abstract
The genus Psammodromus comprises six species of lacertid lizards: P. microdactylus (Boettger, 1881) and P. blanci (Lataste, 1880) are endemic to North Africa; P. algirus (Linnaeus, 1758) is found in North Africa, Iberia, and southern France; P. edwarsianus (Dugès, 1829) is found in Iberia and southern France; and P. occidentalis Fitze et al., 2012 and P. hispanicus Fitzinger, 1826 are only found in Iberia. Of these, P. edwarsianus, P. hispanicus, and P. occidentalis were only recently recognised as distinct species based on genetic, morphological, and ecological niche divergence data (Fitze et al., 2011, 2012).