You are here » home › advanced search › Darevskia daghestanica

Darevskia daghestanica (DAREVSKY, 1967)

IUCN Red List - Darevskia daghestanica - Least Concern, LC
iNaturalist logo

Can you confirm these amateur observations of Darevskia daghestanica?

Add your own observation of
Darevskia daghestanica »

Find more photos by Google images search: Google images

Higher TaxaLacertidae, Lacertinae, Sauria, Lacertoidea, Squamata (lizards)
Subspecies 
Common NamesRussian: Дагестанская ящерица 
SynonymLacerta saxicola daghestanica DAREVSKY 1967: 55
Lacerta caucasica daghestanica — ENGELMANN et al. 1993
Lacerta saxicola gracilis MEHELY 1909: 553
Lacerta saxicola gracilis — SCHELKOVNIKOV 1911: 222
Lacerta muralis var. caucasica BOULENGER 1913
Lacerta saxicola caucasica NIKOLSKY 1915
Lacerta daghestanica — FU & MURPHY 1997
Darevskia daghestanica — ARRIBAS 1997
Lacerta daghestanica — DAREVSKY & ROITBERG 1999
Darevskia daghestanica — MURPHY et al. 2000
Lacerta (Darevskia) daghestanica — SINDACO & JEREMČENKO 2008
Darevskia daghestanica — DORONIN et al. 2019 
DistributionS Russia (NE Precaucasus, Dagestan, North Ossetia, Ingushetia, Chechnya), N Republic of Georgia (South Ossetia), Azerbaijan

Type locality: Dagestan and North Caucasus; lectotype locality: “Russian, Dagestan, Levashinsky District, Levaschi (=Lavaschi) Village, 42°25 ́N 47°19 ́E”  
Reproductionoviparous 
TypesLectotype: GSM 263 (Georgia National Museum, Tbilisi; also given as GNM); (old number 26 h) (designated by Doronin 2014, see his Figs. 3, 4), 11.06.1894. Coll.: G.I. Radde and E.G. Konig 
Diagnosis 
CommentSynonymy partly after KHALIKOV & ANANJEVA (pers. comm.).

Distribution: see Doronin 2013: 82 for a distribution map. 
EtymologyNamed after the type locality. 
References
  • Bischoff, W. 1978. Beiträge zur Kenntnis der Echsen des Kaukasus. Salamandra 14 (4): 178-202 - get paper here
  • Bunyatova, S.N; S.K.Dzhafarova 2019. Study of the distribution and number of the genus Darevskia Arribas lizards, 1997 (Reptilia, Sauria, Lacertidae) in Azerbaijan. PROCEEDINGS OF THE VII CONGRESS OF THE NIKOLSKY HERPETOLOGICAL SOCIETY, in "University proceedings. Volga region. Natural sciences” 1: 12-19 - get paper here
  • Darevsky, I. S. & E. S. Roitberg 1999. A new subspecies of the rock lizard Lacerta caucasica (Sauria, Lacertidae) from the south-east of Chechen Republic on the Caucasus. Russ. J. Herpetol. 6 (3): 209-214 - get paper here
  • Darevsky,I.S. 1967. Rock lizards of the Caucasus: Systematics, ecology and phylogenesis of the polymorphic groups of Caucasian rock lizards of the the subgenus Archaeolacerta (Skal'nye Yashcheritsy Kavkasa; Izdat elst'vo Nauka, Leningrad). Leningrad, Nauka (English translation 1978): Ind. Nat. Sci. Doc. Centre; New Delhi, 276 pp. - get paper here
  • Doronin I. V., Melnikov D. A., Melnikova E. N. 2016. Species differentiation of the rock lizard Darevskia (caucasica) complex (by DNA-barcoding data, cytochrome oxydase subunit I sequences). PROCEEDINGS OF THE 6th CONGRESS OF THE A. M. NIKOLSKY HERPETOLOGICAL SOCIETY pp. 42-49 - get paper here
  • Doronin I.V. 2013. The analysis of distribution of rock lizards of Darevskia (caucasica) complex (using the Maxent program). In:<br />Modern herpetology: problems and ways of their solutions. Collection of papers of the First International Conference of the Young Herpe Zoological institute of RAS. Saint-Petersburg, 2013. 81-85. - get paper here
  • Doronin I.V., Dzhelali P.A., Lotiev K.Yu., Mazanaeva L.F., Mustafaeva G.A., Bunyatova S.N. 2021. Phylogeography of a Darevskia (caucasica) complex (Lacertidae: Sauria) based on the cytochrome b mitochondrial gene analysis. Proceedings of the Zoological Institute RAS, 2021, 325(1): 49–66 · - get paper here
  • Doronin IV, Doronina MA, Bekoshvili D 2019. New data on the distribution of lizards in Caucasus. Herpetozoa 32: 87-90 - get paper here
  • Doronin, I.V. 2014. REVIEW OF TYPE SPECIMENS OF ROCK LIZARDS OF DAREVSKIA (CAUCASICA) COMPLEX (SAURIA: LACERTIDAE). Proceedings of the Zoological Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences (Труды Зоологического института РАН) 318 (4): 371–381 - get paper here
  • Doronin, I.V.; K.Yu. Lotiev, L.F. Mazanaeva, K.D. Milto and D.I. Khlyustikova 2022. New records of the rock lizards of the genus Darevskia Arribas, 1999 (Sauria: Lacertidae) in the Caucasus. Communication 2 Proceedings of the Zoological Institute RAS, 2022, 326(4): 274–283 - get paper here
  • Dunaev E.A., Orlova V.F. 2017. Amphibians and reptiles of Russia. Atlas and determination. 2nd. ed. Moscow: Phyton XXI, 328 p
  • Engelmann, W.E. et al. 1993. Lurche und Kriechtiere Europas. Neumann Verlag (Radebeul, Germany), 440 pp.
  • Fu, JINZHONG AND ROBERT W. MURPHY 1997. Toward the phylogeny of caucasian rock lizards: implications from mitochondrial DNA gene sequences (Reptilia: Lacertidae). Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society (1997), 121: 463–477. - get paper here
  • Fu,J. et al. 1995. Genetic and morphological differentiation among caucasian rock lizards of the Lacerta caucasica complex. Russ. J. Herpetol. 2 (1): 36-42 - get paper here
  • Méhely, Lajos von 1909. Materialien zu einer Systematik und Phylogenie der muralis-ähnlichen Lacerten. Annales historico-naturales Musei nationalis Hungarici, Budapest, 7 (2): 409-621 - get paper here
  • Murphy, R.W.; Fu,J.; MacCulloch, R.D.; Darevsky,I.S. & Kupriyanova,L.A. 2000. A fine line between sex and unisexuality: the phylogenetic constraints on parthenogenesis in lacertid lizards. Zool. J. Linnean Soc. 130: 527-549 - get paper here
  • Roitberg, E. S. 1994. Morphological analysis of the Caucasian rock lizards Lacerta caucasica caucasica and L. c. daghestanica from the contact zone. Russ. J. Herpetol. 1 (2): 179-184 - get paper here
  • Schelkovnikov, A.B. 1911. Beobachtungen an Reptilien des Kreises Ares, Gouv. Elisabethpol. [in Russian] Tiflis Mitt. Kaukas. Mus. 5: 216-240-242
  • Sindaco, R. & Jeremcenko, V.K. 2008. The reptiles of the Western Palearctic. Edizioni Belvedere, Latina (Italy), 579 pp. - get paper here
  • Tarkhnishvili, D., Gabelaia, M. and Adriaens, D. 2020. Phenotypic divergence, convergence and evolution of Caucasian rock lizards (Darevskia). Biological Journal of the Linnean Society - get paper here
 
External links  
Is it interesting? Share with others:


Please submit feedback about this entry to the curator