Lacerta was a fairly diverse genus containing around 40 species, until it was "split" into nine genera in 2007 by Arnold, Arribas & Carranza.
The earliest known members of the genus Lacerta are known from early Miocene epoch fossils indistinguishable in anatomy from the modern green lizards such as Lacerta viridis .
The genus Lacerta contains the following species.
Lacerta agilis Linnaeus , 1758Lacerta bilineata Daudin , 1802Lacerta media Lantz & Cyrén, 1920 Lacerta mostoufi Baloutch, 1976 Lacerta pamphylica Schmidtler, 1975 Lacerta schreiberi Bedriaga , 1878Lacerta strigata Eichwald , 1831Caucasus emerald lizardLacerta trilineata Bedriaga, 1886 - Balkan green lizard, Balkan emerald lizardLacerta viridis (Laurenti , 1768) – European green lizardArranged alphabetically by specific name :
Anatololacerta anatolica – Anatolian rock lizardAtlantolacerta andreanskyi – Atlas dwarf lizard, Andreansky's lizardIberolacerta aranica – Aran rock lizardIberolacerta aurelioi – Aurelio's rock lizardArchaeolacerta bedriagae – Bedriaga's rock lizardIberolacerta bonnali – Pyrenean rock lizardApathya cappadocica – Anatolian lizardDarevskia chlorogaster Phoenicolacerta cyanisparsa Omanosaura cyanura – blue-tailed Oman lizardAnatololacerta danfordi – Danford's lizardDarevskia defilippii Darevskia dryada (Darevsky & Tuniyev, 1997) Teira dugesii – Madeiran wall lizardHellenolacerta graeca – Greek rock lizard(Lacerta herseyi = Zootoca vivipara ) Iberolacerta horvathi – Horvath's rock lizardOmanosaura jayakari – Jayakar's lizardPhoenicolacerta kulzeri Phoenicolacerta laevis Timon lepidus – ocellated lizard, foot lizardIberolacerta monticola – Iberian rock lizardArchaeolacerta mosorensis - Mosor rock lizardPodarcis muralis Anatololacerta oertzeni Dalmatolacerta oxycephala – sharp-snouted rock lizardParvilacerta parva – dwarf lizardDarevskia steineri Zootoca vivipara – viviparous lizardIranolacerta zagrosica 
