Parvilacerta parva (BOULENGER, 1887)

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Higher Taxa	Lacertidae, Lacertinae, Sauria, Lacertoidea, Squamata (lizards)
Subspecies
Common Names	E: Dwarf Lizard G: Zwergeidechse
Synonym	Lacerta parva BOULENGER 1887: 22 Lacerta parva — KOSSWIG 1955 Lacerta parva — ENGELMANN et al 1993 Lacerta (Parvilacerta) parva — HARRIS et al. 1998 Archaeolacerta (Parvilacerta) parva — SINDACO et al. 2000 Parvilacerta parva — BISCHOFF 2005 Parvilacerta parva — ARNOLD et al. 2007 Lacerta (Parvilacerta) parva — SINDACO & JEREMČENKO 2008 Parvilacerta parva — SPEYBROECK et al. 2020
Distribution	Armenian Mountainland, Turkey (central and NE Anatolia) Type locality: Asia Minor
Reproduction	oviparous
Types	Holotype: BMNH 1946.8.6.47
Diagnosis	Diagnosis (genus): Unique among Lacertini in following features: medial loop of clavicle never interrupted posteriorly, plicae on hemipenial lobes replaced by longitudinal flaps and folds, hemipenial microornamentation of often bifid tubercles, female genital sinus unlobed, only 24 chromosomes (8 single-armed and 14 double-armed macrochromosomes and 2 microchromosomes). Also possessing the following features found only in a minority of other Lacertini: pterygoid teeth present, septomaxilla with anterior and posterior projections, slight medial depression on snout, elevated number of presacral vertebrae (usually 27–28 in males, 29 in females), BC-type tail vertebrae, nostril separated from first upper labial scale, collar serrated, eight longitudinal rows of ventral scales, preanal scale bordered by two or more semicircles of smaller ones, often blue or green ocelli on flanks of males, nasal vestibule markedly elongated with overhanging posterior border, kidney expanded and more than half its length in front of sacrum. Other more widely distributed features include: head and body not strongly depressed, seven or eight premaxillary teeth, inscriptional ribs usually absent, tail not brightly coloured in hatchlings (from Arnold et al. 2007: 50).
Comment	Type Species: Lacerta parva Boulenger, 1887 is the type species of the genus Parvilacerta ARNOLD et al. 2007. Reference images: see Uetz et al. 2024 for high-resolution reference images for this species.
Etymology	Named after Latin “parvus, -a, -um” = small. The genus was (also) named after Latin parvus = small, and lacerta = lizard.
References	Arakelyan, Marine S.; Felix D. Danielyan, Claudia Corti, Roberto Sindaco, and Alan E. Leviton 2011. The Herpetofauna of Armenia and Nagorno-Karabakh. SSAR, Salt Lake City, 154 pp. [ISBN: 978-0-916984-84-7.] ARAKELYAN, MARINE; TIGRAN TADEVOSYAN, RUZANNA PETROSYAN, TIGRAN GHREJYAN & ANGIN GRIGORYAN. 2023. Status of the Dwarf Lizard (Parvilacerta parva) at the edge of its range in Armenia. Zoology in the Middle East 69(3): 232–242. - get paper here Arnold, E.N.; Arribas, O. & Carranza, S. 2007. Systematics of the Palaearctic and Oriental lizard tribe Lacertini (Squamata: Lacertidae: Lacertinae), with descriptions of eight new genera. Zootaxa 1430: 1-86 - get paper here BADER, T. & KOPECZKY, R. & RIEGLER, C. & WIELAND, F. 2016. Die Eidechsen Armeniens – Teil 2: Die Gattungen Lacerta, Ophisops, Parvilacerta und Eremias. Die Eidechse 27 (2): 33-46. - get paper here Bird, C. G. 1936. The distribution of reptiles and amphibians in Asiatic Turkey with notes on a collection from the Vilayets of Adana, Gaziantep and Malatya. Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. (10) 18: 257-281. - get paper here Bischoff, W. 2005. Die echten Eidechsen der Familie Lacertidae - eine Übersicht. Draco 5 (21): 4-27 - get paper here BISCHOFF, W. & M. FRANZEN 1993. Bemerkungen zur Zwergeidechse Lacerta parva BOULENGER, 1887, besonders über ihren Lebensraum in der Türkei. Die Eidechse 4 (9): 3-12 - get paper here BOSCH, H.A.J. IN DEN 1993. Lacerta parva, Balz und Fortpflanzung. Die Eidechse 4 (10): 22-24 - get paper here Boulenger, G. A. 1887. Catalogue of the lizards in the British Museum (Nat. Hist.) III. Lacertidae, Gerrhosauridae, Scincidae, Anelytropsidae, Dibamidae, Chamaeleontidae. London: 575 pp. - get paper here Engelmann, W.E. et al. 1993. Lurche und Kriechtiere Europas. Neumann Verlag (Radebeul, Germany), 440 pp. Harris, D. J., E. N. ARNOLD & R. H. THOMAS 1998. Relationships of lacertid lizards (Reptilia: Lacertidae) estimated from mitochondrial DNA sequences and morphology. Proc. R. Soc. London, B, 265: 1939-1948 - get paper here KAYA, Nilgün; Oya ÖZULUĞ 2017. THE HERPETOLOGICAL COLLECTION OF ZOOLOGY MUSEUM, ISTANBUL UNIVERSITY. Anadolu Üniversitesi Bilim ve Teknoloji Dergisi C- Yaşam Bilimleri ve Biyoteknoloji<br />(Anadolu University Journal of Science and Technology C- Life Sciences and Biotechnology) - get paper here Kosswig, C. 1955. Zoogoegraphy in the near east. Systematic Zoology 4 (2): 49-73+96 - get paper here Kumlutas, Y., S. H. Durmus, Y. Kaska, M. öz and M. R. Tunç 2004. A morphological and taxonomic study on Lacerta parva Boulenger, 1887 (Sauria: Lacertidae) from West Taurus, Turkey. Asiatic Herpetological Research 10: 202-207 - get paper here Lantz, L. A. and Cyren, O. 1939. Contribution a la connaissance de Lacerta brandtii De Filippi et de Lacerta parva Boulenger. Bulletin de Societe Zoologique de France 64: 228-243. Mertens, R. 1952. Türkiye amfibi ve reptilleri hakkinda. Amphibien und Reptilien aus der Türkei. Rev. Istanbul Üniversitesi fen Fakültesi Mecmuasi, 17:41-75. - get paper here Nikolsky, A. M. 1909. Novae species reptiliem e Caucaso [in Russian]. Tiflis Mitt. Kaukas. Mus. 4: 301-306 - get paper here Peters, G. 1962. Die Zwergeidechse (Lacerta parva BOULENGER) und ihre Verwandtschaftsbeziehungen zu anderen Lacertiden, insbesondere zur Libanon-Eidechse (L. fraasi LEHRS). Zool. Jb. Syst. 89: 407-478 Şahin, M. E. H. M. E. T., & Kuyucu, A. R. D. A. 2021. Thermal biology of two sympatric Lacertid lizards (Lacerta diplochondrodes and Parvilacerta parva) from Western Anatolia Mehmet. Journal Of Thermal Biology 101: 1-8 - get paper here Sindaco, R. & Jeremcenko, V.K. 2008. The reptiles of the Western Palearctic. Edizioni Belvedere, Latina (Italy), 579 pp. - get paper here Sindaco, Roberto; Alberto Venchi, Giuseppe M. Carpaneto, Marco A. Bologna 2000. The Reptiles of Anatolia: a Checklist and Zoogeographical analysis. Biogeographia, 21-2000: 441-554. - get paper here Speybroeck, Jeroen; Wouter Beukema, Christophe Dufresnes, Uwe Fritz, Daniel Jablonski, Petros Lymberakis, Iñigo Martínez-Solano, Edoardo Razzetti, Melita Vamberger, Miguel Vences, Judit Vörös0, Pierre-André Crochet 2020. Species list of the European herpetofauna – 2020 update by the Taxonomic Committee of the Societas Europaea Herpetologica.. Amphibia-Reptilia 41: 139-189 - get paper here Suchow, G. F. 1948. Review of the lizards of subgenus Lacerta (Sauria) found in the USSR. Proceedings of the Zoological Institute of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR, 7(3). A collection of papers on the taxonomy, zoogeography and ecology: 101–117 [In Russian] Tuniyev B.S., Tuniyev S.B., Avcı A., Ilgaz Ç. 2014. Herpetological studies in Eastern and North-Eastern Turkey. Current Studies in Herpetology 14 (1/2): 44–53. Резюме - get paper here Uetz, P.H.; Patel, M.; Gbadamosi, Z.; Nguyen, A.; Shoope, S. 2024. A Reference Database of Reptile Images. Taxonomy 4: 723–732 - get paper here Venchi,A. & Bologna,M.A. 1996. Lacerta parva BOULENGER, a new lizard species for the European fauna. Amphibia-Reptilia 17: 89-90 - get paper here Werner, FRANZ 1902. Die Reptilien- und Amphibienfauna von Kleinasien. Sitzungsber. K. Akad. Wiss. (math.-Naturw. Klasse 1) 111: 1057-1121 Yildiz, Mehmet Zülfü; Nasit Igci, Bahadir Akman, Bayram Göcmen 2018. Results of a herpetological survey in the Province of Ağrı (East Anatolia, Turkey) (Anura; Testudines; Squamata). Herpetozoa 31 (1/2): 47 - 60 - get paper here
External links	IUCN Red List National Center for Biotechnology Information http://www.fototrapp.de/bilder/index.php?gal=02-02-19 http://www.lacerta.de/AS/Taxon.php?Genus=23&Species=87 Google images

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