Darevskia

Darevskia
Darevskia raddei
Scientific classification
Kingdom:Animalia
Phylum:Chordata
Class:Reptilia
Order:Squamata
Family:Lacertidae
Subfamily:Lacertinae
Genus:Darevskia
Arribas, 1997[1]

Darevskia is a genus of wall lizards of the family Lacertidae. It includes 32 species, 27 of which are found in northern Eurasia.[1][2]

Etymology

The generic name, Darevskia, is in honor of Russian herpetologist Ilya Sergeyevich Darevsky.[3]

Species

The following species are recognized as being valid.[2]

  • Darevskia alpina (Darevsky, 1967)
  • Darevskia armeniaca (Méhelÿ, 1909)
  • Darevskia bendimahiensis (Schmidtler, Eiselt & Darevsky, 1994)
  • Darevskia bithynica (Méhelÿ, 1909)
  • Darevskia brauneri (Méhelÿ, 1909)
  • Darevskia caspica Ahmadzadeh et al., 2013
  • Darevskia caucasica (Méhelÿ, 1909)
  • Darevskia chlorogaster (Boulenger, 1908)
  • Darevskia clarkorum (Darevsky & Vedmederja, 1977)
  • Darevskia daghestanica (Darevsky, 1967)
  • Darevskia dahli (Darevsky, 1957)
  • Darevskia defilippii (Camerano, 1877)
  • Darevskia derjugini (Nikolsky, 1898)
  • Darevskia dryada (Darevsky & Tuniyev, 1997)
  • Darevskia kamii Ahmadzadeh et al., 2013
  • Darevskia kopetdaghica Ahmadzadeh et al., 2013
  • Darevskia lindholmi (Lantz & Cyrén, 1936)
  • Darevskia mixta (Méhelÿ, 1909)
  • Darevskia parvula (Lantz & Cyrén, 1913)
  • Darevskia pontica (Lantz & Cyrén, 1919)
  • Darevskia portschinskii (Kessler, 1878)
  • Darevskia praticola (Eversmann, 1834)
  • Darevskia raddei (Boettger, 1892)
  • Darevskia rostombekovi (Darevsky, 1957)
  • Darevskia rudis (Bedriaga, 1886)
  • Darevskia sapphirina (Schmidtler, Eiselt & Darevsky, 1994)
  • Darevskia saxicola (Eversmann, 1834)
  • Darevskia schaekeli Ahmadzadeh et al., 2013
  • Darevskia steineri (Eiselt, 1995)
  • Darevskia unisexualis (Darevsky, 1966)
  • Darevskia uzzelli (Darevsky & Danielyan, 1977)
  • Darevskia valentini (Boettger, 1892)

Nota bene: A binomial authority in parentheses indicates that the species was originally described in a genus other than Darevskia.

References

  1. 1 2 Ananjeva, Natalia B.; Orlov, Nikolai L.; Khalikov, Roman G.; Darevsky, Ilya S.; Ryabov, Sergei A.; Barabanov, Andrei V. (2006), The Reptiles of Northern Eurasia: Taxonomic Diversity, Distribution, Conservation Status, Faunastica, 47, Sofia, Bulgaria: Pensoft Publishers, p. 79, ISBN 954-642-269-X.
  2. 1 2 "Darevskia ". The Reptile Database. www.reptile-database.org.
  3. ↑ Beolens, Bo; Watkins, Michael; Grayson, Michael (2011). The Eponym Dictionary of Reptiles. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. xiii + 296 pp. ISBN 978-1-4214-0135-5. (Darevskia, p. 65).

Further reading

  • Arribas, Oscar (1999). "Phylogeny and relationships of the mountain lizards of Europe and the Near East (Archeolacerta Mertens, 1921, sensu lato) and their relationships among the Eurasian lacertid radiation". Russian Journal of Herpetology 6 (1): 1-22.


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