Table 1.
Morphological and performance information for all 24 species
| Species | Head (mm) | Inner ear (mm) | Sprint speed (m s−1) | Microhabitat | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Length | Width | Height | Length | Width | Depth | Absolute | Dimensionless | ||
| Acanthodactylus boskianus (1) | 16.43 | 9.71 | 7.97 | 3.38 | 2.44 | 2.84 | 2.98c | 6.38 | oa1 |
| Australolacerta australis (1) | 15.76 | 10.45 | 6.40 | 2.95 | 1.87 | 2.46 | 2.14f | 4.22 | ve5 |
| Dalmatolacerta oxycephala (1) | 15.24 | 9.07 | 6.05 | 3.01 | 2.05 | 2.34 | 2.02a | 4.53 | ve1 |
| Eremias acutirostris (1) | 16.80 | 9.55 | 8.12 | 3.39 | 2.31 | 2.88 | – | – | ve2 |
| Gallotia galloti (1) | 21.46 | 12.87 | 11 | 4.30 | 2.87 | 3.54 | 1.93g | – | dva1 |
| Holaspis guentheri (1) | 10.80 | 7.28 | 3.62 | 2.35 | 1.46 | 1.77 | – | – | ve3 |
| Iberolacerta monticola (1) | 16.74 | 10.91 | 5.99 | 3.47 | 1.95 | 2.54 | 2.76c | 5.28 | ve3 |
| Ichnotropis capensis (1) | 11.45 | 7.59 | 5.5 | 2.41 | 1.59 | 2.07 | 2.48f | 4.91 | oa1 |
| Lacerta agilis (1) | 17.96 | 12.19 | 9.78 | 3.25 | 1.98 | 2.74 | 1.68b | 3.56 | dva3 |
| Latastia longicaudata (1) | 16.03 | 8.67 | 6.81 | 3.25 | 2.14 | 2.84 | 3.34g | 5.74 | oa1 |
| Messalina guttulata (1) | 9.59 | 6.21 | 3.81 | 2.40 | 1.59 | 2.09 | – | – | oa1 |
| Meroles knoxii (1) | 15.82 | 9.96 | 7.85 | 2.62 | 1.65 | 2.31 | 2.36f | 5.17 | oa3 |
| Nucras tesselata (1) | 14.07 | 9.71 | 7.14 | 2.80 | 1.71 | 2.44 | 2.05e | 4.17 | oa7 |
| Ophisops elegans (1) | 9.11 | 5.45 | 3.98 | 2.42 | 1.40 | 2.09 | – | – | oa4 |
| Pedioplanis lineocellata (1) | 13.91 | 8.78 | 6.51 | 2.61 | 1.65 | 2.18 | 2.63e | 5.35 | dva3 |
| Phoenicolacerta laevis (1) | 12.03 | 7.9 | 5.55 | 2.84 | 1.77 | 2.32 | – | – | ve3,4 |
| Podarcis melisellensis (1) | 14.10 | 10.2 | 7.08 | 3.02 | 2.07 | 2.56 | 1.81d | 4.02 | ve3 |
| Podarcis hispanicus (1) | 14.41 | 9.94 | 7.98 | 3.05 | 2.07 | 2.66 | 1.85b | 4.01 | ve3 |
| Podarcis peloponnesiacus (8) | 17.36 | 9.84 | 7.57 | 3.13 | 2.10 | 2.77 | 2.67c | 5.02 | ve6 |
| Podarcis muralis (1) | 12.63 | 6.82 | 5.09 | 2.64 | 1.67 | 2.17 | 2.14a | 4.98 | ve3 |
| Psammodromus algirus (1) | 14.82 | 9.06 | 6.77 | 3.18 | 2.08 | 2.94 | 2.53g | 4.57 | dva3,4 |
| Takydromus sexlineatus (11) | 14.02 | 6.61 | 5.93 | 2.71 | 1.70 | 2.24 | 1.33a | 3.33 | dva3 |
| Tropidosaura gularis (1) | 14.27 | 8.49 | 5.93 | 2.82 | 1.60 | 2.33 | 1.89f | 5.10 | dva5 |
| Zootoca vivipara (1) | 10.61 | 7.21 | 5.22 | 2.46 | 1.47 | 2.13 | 0.87a | 2.14 | dva1,4 |
The number of specimens is indicated in the parentheses. Habitat type is indicated with dva, densely vegetated areas; oa, open areas; and ve, areas including vertical elements.
Sprint speed data acquired from literature: aVanhooydonck et al. (2001); bBauwens et al. (1995); cVerwaijen (2007); dBrecko et al. (2008); eHuey et al. (1984); fUnpublished data (personal observations by Dr Herrel and Dr Vanhooydonck); gVanhooydonck et al. (2007).
Habitat type data acquired from literature: 1Vanhooydonck & Van Damme (1999); 2Tadevosyan (2007); 3Van Damme & Vanhooydonck (2002); 4Baeckens et al. (2015); 5Bates et al. (2014); 6Mayer & Beyerlein (1999); 7Van der Meer et al. (2010). See Materials and methods for the dimensionless speed calculation.