Scelarcis perspicillata (DUMÉRIL & BIBRON, 1839)
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Scelarcis perspicillata
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| Higher Taxa | Lacertidae, Lacertinae, Sauria, Lacertoidea, Squamata (lizards) |
| Subspecies | Scelarcis perspicillata chabanaudi (WERNER 1931) Scelarcis perspicillata pellegrini (WERNER 1929) Scelarcis perspicillata perspicillata (DUMÉRIL & BIBRON 1839) |
| Common Names | E: Menorca Wall Lizard G: Brilleneidechse chabanaudi: Genetzte Brilleneidechse |
| Synonym | Lacerta perspicillata DUMÉRIL & BIBRON 1839: 249 Lacerta perspicillata — GUICHENOT 1850: 12 Lacerta (Thetia) perspicillata — BOULENGER 1920: 335 Podarcis perspicillata — ARNOLD 1973 Lacerta perspicillata — WELCH 1982 Podarcis perspicillata — RICHTER 1986: 399 Podarcis perspicillata — ENGELMANN et al 1993 Teira perspicillata — MAYER & BISCHOFF 1996: 169 Scelarcis perspicillata — BONS & GENIEZ 1996 Podarcis perspicillata — SCHLEICH, KÄSTLE & KABISCH 1996: 441 Lacerta (Teira) perspicillata — HARRIS et al. 2003 Teira perspicillata — SCHLÜTER 2004: 44 Scelarcis perspicillata — ARNOLD et al. 2007 Teira perspicillata — KWET 2010 Scelarcis perspicillata — MEDIANI et al. 2015 Scelarcis perspicillata — LANUZA et al. 2016 Scelarcis perspicillata — MENDES et al. 2016 Scelarcis perspicillata chabanaudi (WERNER, 1931) Lacerta perspicillata chabanaudi WERNER, 1931: 286 Lacerta perspicillata chabanaudi — HEDIGER 1935 Lacerta perspicillata chabanaudi — TIEDEMANN et al. 1994 Teira perspicillata chabanaudi — SCHLÜTER 2003 Lacerta (Scelarcis) perspicillata chabanaudi — SINDACO & JEREMČENKO 2008 Scelarcis perspicillata chabanaudi — PEREIRA et al. 2019 Scelarcis perspicillata pellegrini (WERNER, 1929) Lacerta perspicillata pellegrini WERNER 1929: 5 Lacerta perspicillata pellegrini — WERNER 1931: 286 Lacerta perspicillata pellegrini forma Tazana WERNER 1931 Lacerta (Scelarcis) perspicillata pellegrini — SINDACO & JEREMČENKO 2008 Scelarcis perspicillata pellegrini — PEREIRA et al. 2019 |
| Distribution | W/C Morocco (Middle and High Atlas), N/W Algeria, Spain (Menorca Island, introduced) chabanaudi: Morocco; Type locality: Chella bei Rabat (= Chellah de Rabat); Fes, Marokko. pellegrini: Morocco; Type locality: Safron (= Sefrou), Marokko; |
| Reproduction | oviparous |
| Types | Holotype: MNHN-RA 2749 Syntypes: NMW 16225, female; NMW 11153, female, MCZ 29981 [chabanaudi] Holotype: MCZ R 27390 (29983 in catalogue); Syntype: NMW 11154; paratype: MNHN [pellegrini] |
| Diagnosis | Diagnosis (genus): The only genus in the Lacertini with a transparent window in the lower eyelid consisting of a single scale. Also possessing the following features found only in a minority of other Lacertini: usual number of presacral vertebrae 26–27 in males, medial loop of clavicle always interrupted posteriorly, lateral arms of interclavicle directed obliquely backwards, hemipenis with large sulcal lips on lobes, outer edge of parietal scale reaching lateral border of parietal table both posteriorly and anteriorly, nostril separated from first upper labial scale, five or more upper labial scales in front of subocular; no enlarged masseteric scale, 10–12 longitudinal rows of ventral scales, preanal scale often bordered by two semicircles of smaller scales, some animals without markings and others with broad dorsolateral stripes; no blue spots on lateral edges of the outer ventral scales. Other more widely distributed features include: head not strongly depressed, usually seven premaxillary teeth in adults, inscriptional ribs usually absent, tail brightly coloured in hatchlings, hemipenial microornamentation of hook-like spines (from Arnold et al. 2007: 55). |
| Comment | Subspecies: Besides the subspecies chabanaudi and pellegrini, Werner 1931 also described several “forms”, namely “Rerahiensis” and “Tazana”. Genus: A separate (sub-) genus Scelarcis was proposed for this distinct species. BONS & GENIEZ (1996) reject the subspecies of P. perspicillata because of their mixed distribution pattern. Type species: Lacerta perspicillata Duméril & Bibron, 1839 is the type species of the genus Scelarcis FITZINGER 1843. Phylogenetics. Mitochondrial data (Harris and Arnold 1999, Oliverio et al. 2000) and morphology (Arnold 1989) suggest Teira perspicillata is a sister taxon to Teira dugesii (Milne-Edwards, 1829) which has been confirmed by Mendes et al. 2016. It is thus best placed in Teira (type species: dugesii) for the time being (although Mendes et al. 2016 maintain it in a separate genus). Preliminary evicence of large amount of genetic divergence concordant with sharp morphological variation (Harris et al. 2003) suggest that several species are presently confounded within this species (Jeroen Speybroeck, pers. comm. and cited references). |
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