Mesalina Gray, 1838

A member of the Eremiadini tribe closely related to Acanthodactylus, Eremias, Omanosaura, and Ophisops . However, closer phylogenetic relationships among these genera remain unresolved even after a number of phylogenetic studies based on both morphological and genetic data (Arnold 1989; Harris et al. 1998; Fu 1999, 2000; Mayer & Pavlicev 2007; Greenbaum et al. 2011; Kapli et al. 2011; Pyron et al. 2013).