. Bonn zoological bulletin. Zoology. Fig. 5. Excerpt with "Lezard gris (Lacerta agilis)" from Bonnaterre (1789: 44 and pi. 6, fig. 2). This copy of Pennant's Scaly lizard (= Zootoca vivipara; see fig. 4) was intended to represent a current French Podarcis muralis. See some single falsifications because of this cribbing: The more reduced pileus scalation, the reduced spotting upon the dorsum and the even scalation of the tail compared with the verticillate and rugose formadon of the original. - Note 4. only in their systematics!). Here, Linnaeus (1758) and Lacepede (1788) may be chara
. Bonn zoological bulletin. Zoology. Fig. 5. Excerpt with "Lezard gris (Lacerta agilis)" from Bonnaterre (1789: 44 and pi. 6, fig. 2). This copy of Pennant's Scaly lizard (= Zootoca vivipara; see fig. 4) was intended to represent a current French Podarcis muralis. See some single falsifications because of this cribbing: The more reduced pileus scalation, the reduced spotting upon the dorsum and the even scalation of the tail compared with the verticillate and rugose formadon of the original. - Note 4. only in their systematics!). Here, Linnaeus (1758) and Lacepede (1788) may be characterised as "lumpers". In their species Lacerta agilis and Lacertus cinereus I Lezard gris there are comprised more or less clear at least the sand lizard (currently: Lacerta agilis Linnaeus), the green lizard (currently: Lacerta viridis Laurenti or L bilineata, Daudin), the wall lizard (currently: Podarcis muralis (Lau- renti)), the viviparous lizard (currently: Zootoca vivipara (Lichtenstein) see the comprehensive discussion in Ley- dig (1881: 161)). Contrary to them, Laurenti (1768) and Daudin (1802) took the line of an extreme "splitting". They based new species upon juvenile forms, colour va- rieties, males and females (for details see: Dumeril & Bibron 1839, Schmidtler 2004, 2010, Kuzmin 2005: 242). It is noteworthy that Zootoca vivipara is not involved in this splitting bacchanal. As indicated, Lacertus cinereus Lacepede (the male gen- der represents an unjustified emendation; cf. David & al. 2002: 24) comprises also Zootoca vivipara. This fact is less identifiable from the ambiguous morphological de- scriptions, but in fact from a publication on its vivipari- ty, being published covertly (Lacepede 1789: 491, "Ad- ditions"), and forgotten later on. This citation worried Lacepede. He only found a way by speculating that the grey lizards could not help but the salamanders in fact could (then also in the Linnean genus Lacertal), the fe-
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