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der Echten Eidechsen, Familie Lacertidae
Ophisops elegans blanfordi SCHMIDT, 1939
Anderson, S.C. (1968) -
Bischoff, W. (1991) -
Disi, A.M. (1996) -
Zoogeographisch gesehen erweist sich die jordanische Herpetofauna als heterogen, indem sie vier biogeographischen Regionen entstammt (Orientalische, Paläarktische, Saharo-Sindische, Äthiopische Region) und vier unterschiedliche Ökozonen umfaßt. Dreiundneunzig Arten und Unterarten von Amphibien und Reptilien sind für Jordanien bekannt, die unterschiedliche Verbreitungsmuster zeigen. Die Mediterrane Ökozone beherbergt die höchste Anzahl von Arten (35), gefolgt von der tropisch-sudanensischen Penetrationszone (16) und der Badyiah Ökozone (12). Jordanien ist nicht durch landschaftsmorphologische Grenzen von den umgebenden Ländern abgetrennt, sodaß keine diesbezüglichen Isolationsmechanismen wirksam sind, was zum Fehlen von Endemismen geführt haben dürfte. Immerhin gibt es im Ostmediterran als Gesamtheit drei Endemiegebiete: die Badyiah, die sich Jordanien mit Syrien, dem Irak und Saudi Arabien teilt, den Nordteil der Mediterranen Ökozone, der den Libanon, Israel, Syria und Jordanien einnimmt, sowie ein Gebiet, das den Südwesten Jordaniens, Israel and die Halbinsel Sinai umfaßt. Einige paläarktische Arten wie Coluber schmidti und C. ravergieri sind Relikte postglazialer Perioden und überlebten an ökologisch empfindlichen Refugialstandorten. Das Verbreitungsbild einiger Arten (Bufo viridis, Mauremys caspica rivulaia, Natrix tessellata, Coluber ventromaculatus, C. jugularis asianus, Walterinnesia aegyptia, and Vipera palaestinae) ist maßgeblich durch das Klima und anthropogene Einflüsse geprägt.
Habeeb, I.N. (2018) -
n this study the Check list lizards of Iraq were investigated. by reviewing the old and new data as well as carrying out field work and study of material in the Natural history Museum of Iraq as well as many departments and colleges in various universities, are discussed.Further, various relevant websites in the Internet specialized lizards. I found in this study 7 families, 27 genera and 50 species distribution in the different parts of Iraq. During this study I found Asaccus saffinae (Afrasiab & Mohamad, 2009) the first time in SheraSwar Cave in the Saffine Mountain near Erbil, Kurdistan and the first record new species in Iraq and found Ptyodactylus puiseuxi (Boutan, 1893) the first time in same area . Also found Carinatogecko heteropholis(Minton, S. Anderson, and J. A. Anderson, 1970) Which is one of the endemic species in western Iran in the Erbil western Zagros foothills in Erbil. Trapelus ruderatus (Olivier, 1804) found in the central of Iraq. Cyrtopodion scaber (Heyden, 1827) Previously found in southern Iraq But recently also recorded in the center and northern Iraq. Varanus nesterovi (Bohme, Ehrlich, Milto, Orlov & Scholz, 2015) new species in the northern of Iraq. Lacerta media (Lantz & Cyren, 1758) found newly in central and northern of Iraq and Timon kurdistanicus, Apathya cappadocica (Werner, 1902) (Suchow, 1936) northern of Iraq. I note the two families were finding Previously in Iraq and they did not record any new genus and species in Iraq.
Hellmich, W. (1959) -
Khalaf, K.T. (1960) -
Leviton, A.E. & Anderson, S.C. (2010) -
Lymberakis, P. & Kaliontzopoulou, A. (2003) -
Anhand der Ergebnisse einer Sammelreise des Natural History Museum of Crete (NHMC) im April 1999 werden neue Ergebnisse zur Herpetofauna Syriens vorgestellt. Wir sammelten an 30 Lokalitäten insgesamt 391 Exemplare in 43 Arten. Die Ergebnisse erweitern unser Wissen über die Verbreitung mehrerer Arten. Die systematische Stellung von vier Arten (Rana bedriagae, Ptyodactylus sp., Lacerta kultzeri, Mabuya aurata) wird im Lichte neuerer Revisionen der syrischen Herpetofauna diskutiert.
Montgelard, G. & Behrooz, R. & Arnal, V. & Asadi, A. & Geniez, P. & Kaboli, M. (2020) -
Revealing cryptic diversity constitutes the backbone of the future identification and description of a new lineage. For the genus Ophisops (Lacertidae), previous studies indicated that this genus is characterized by cryptic diversity as three clades were obtained for O. elegans and O. occidentalis that do not fit the classical systematics. Notably, we were interested to delineate the distribution range of the two clades of O. elegans described in Iran. We sequenced 65 individuals of Ophisops mainly from northwestern Iran for one mitochondrial (cytochrome c oxidase subunit 1 [COI]; 686 base pairs [bp]) and three nuclear genes (R35, MC1R, and PKM2; 1,857 bp). Phylogeographic analysis from mitochondrial and nuclear genes confirmed that Iranian samples belong to two major haplogroups (divergence of 13% for COI) that are also split into several subclades (divergence of 6%–10% for COI), revealing an unsuspected diversity within Iranian Ophisops. Divergence dating and biogeographi- cal analysis indicated that most clades arose through vicariance and dispersal pro- cesses during the Mio-Pliocene (between 7.2 and 1 Myr). However, a scenario of expansion/regression is also advocated for explaining the distribution and contact between three subclades in North Iran. We propose to recognize the three major clades as three potential candidate species. Moreover, we found some correspond- ence between several phylogenetic clades or subclades identified and six of the nine subspecies described for O. elegans. Both species and subspecies delimitation and identification would deserve additional investigations (including morphology, ecol- ogy, biogeography, and behavior) to fulfill the conditions of integrative taxonomy.
Moravec, J. (1998) -
New data on the distribution and taxonomy of four Syrian reptile species are presented. Ophisops elegans blanfordi and Eirenis barani are recorded from Syria for the first time. The presence of Mabuya aurata septemtaeniata in Syria is confirmed and the possible occurrence of Ophisops elegans centralanatoliae in Syria is discussed. The examination of the subspecific identity of the Syrian populations of Cyrtopodion kotschyi has shown that the diagnostic characters available for C. k. syriacus and C. k. orientalis do not provide a sufficient key for distinguishing between these two Levantine subspecies.
Schmidt, K.P. (1939) -
Tuck Jr., R.G. (1971) -
Werner, Y.L. (1971) -