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Dinarolacerta mosorensis (KOLOMBATOVIC, 1886)

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Higher TaxaLacertidae, Lacertinae, Sauria, Lacertoidea, Squamata (lizards)
Subspecies 
Common NamesE: Mosor rock lizard.
G: Mosoreidechse, Prokletije-Gebirgseidechse
Serbian: Prokletijski gušter
Croatian: mosorska gušterica 
SynonymLacerta mosorensis KOLOMBATOVIC 1886
Lacerta mosorensis — WERNER 1904: 257
Lacerta mosorensis — BOULENGER 1920: 313
Lacerta mosorensis — MERTENS & MÜLLER 1940
Lacerta mosorensis — ENGELMANN et al 1993
Archaeolacerta mosorensis — ARRIBAS 1999
Lacerta mosorensis — PETROV et al. 2006
Dinarolacerta mosorensis — ARNOLD et al. 2007
Dinarolacerta mosorensis — LJUBISAVLJEVI et al. 2007
Lacerta (Dinarolacerta) mosorensis — SINDACO & JEREMČENKO 2008
Dinarolacerta mosorensis — SPEYBROECK et al. 2020 
DistributionCroatia (mountains at the south), Bosnia, Hercegovina, Montenegro

Type locality: Mount Mosor, Dalmatia.  
Reproductionoviparous 
TypesSyntypes: NMW 16090:1,2 
DiagnosisDiagnosis (genus): Lizards possessing the following features found only in a minority of other Lacertini: head and body very strongly depressed, usual number of presacral vertebrae 25–26 in males, median loop of clavicle often interrupted posteriorly, rostral scale usually contacting frontonasal scale, sometimes five upper labial scales in front of subocular, embryos partly developed at egg-laying. Other more widely distributed features include: supraocular osteoderms fenestrated in adults, nine premaxillary teeth in adults, inscriptional ribs usually absent, tail often brightly coloured in hatchlings, hemipenial microornamentation of crown-shaped tubercles (from Arnold et al. 2007: 42). 
CommentType Species: Lacerta mosorensis Kolombatovic, 1886 is the type species of the genus Dinarolacerta ARNOLD et al. 2007.

Phylogenetics: Strachinis et al. 2021 found that Dinarolacerta nests within Algyroides, although they found that their results are “too soon to make any safe conclusions” about synonymization.

Distribution: not in Albania; the Albanian population (Petrov 2006) has been redescribed as D. montenegrina LJUBISAVLJEVIC et al. 2007 (Mizsei et al. 2017).

Reference images: see Uetz et al. 2024 for high-resolution reference images for this species. 
EtymologyNamed after the type locality.

The genus was named after the Dinaric Mountains on the east coast of the Adriatic Sea where the genus occurs, and Latin lacerta, a lizard. The genus name is feminine. 
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