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Meroles reticulatus

species of reptile

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionFeb 28, 2025
Entity authorityQ5082068 ↗
Source-derived summary

Meroles reticulatus, the reticulate sand lizard, is a species of sand-dwelling lizard in the family Lacertidae. It occurs in Namibia and Angola.

Editorial summary

“Meroles reticulatus” enters the record as species of reptile. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Meroles, reticulatus and species can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewUseful for establishing the present vocabulary of the subject while preserving a route back to the evidence on which that vocabulary rests. The current 22-word lead offers orientation but no explicit four-digit date, so chronology should not be assumed. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Meroles, reticulatus and species.
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“Meroles reticulatus” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Meroles, reticulatus and species provides the most credible route into that argument.

Evidence profile

Datasets, specimens, observations and peer-reviewed methods provide the appropriate test for the technical claims summarized here. The source revision retrieved here is dated Feb 28, 2025. The linked authority identifier is Q5082068. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference.

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This entry incorporates text from “Meroles reticulatus” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.