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Darevskia unisexualis (DAREVSKY, 1966)

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Higher TaxaLacertidae, Lacertinae, Sauria, Lacertoidea, Squamata (lizards)
Subspecies 
Common NamesG: Weissbauch-Felseneidechse 
SynonymLacerta "unisexualis" DAREVSKY 1966: 148
Lacerta saxicola defilippii — CHERNOV 1939
Lacerta unisexualis — DAREVSKY 1967
Lacerta unisexualis — ENGELMANN et al 1993
Darevskia unisexualis — ARRIBAS 1997
Lacerta unisexualis — FU, MURPHY & DAREVSKY 2000
Archaeolacerta (Caucasilacerta) unisexualis — SINDACO et al. 2000
Lacerta unisexualis — SZCZERBAK 2003
Darevskia unisexualis — ARNOLD et al. 2007
Lacerta (Darevskia) unisexualis — SINDACO & JEREMČENKO 2008 
DistributionArmenia (mountainland and Sevan Basin), N/E Turkey, S Republic of Georgia

Type locality: Achta, in the canyon of the Razdan River, Armenia, 1800 m elevation.  
Reproductionoviparous; parthenogenetic "species". Derived by hybridization of D. raddei and D. valentini (Murphy et al. 2000, Vergun et al. 2020).  
TypesHolotype: ZISP 17929 (also given as ZIAS, Zool. Inst., Academy of Science, Leningrad) 
Diagnosis 
CommentSynonymy partly after KHALIKOV & ANANJEVA (pers. comm.) 
EtymologyThe species name given by parthenogenetic method of reproduction. 
References
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