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Darevskia mixta (MÉHELY, 1909)

IUCN Red List - Darevskia mixta - Near Threatened, NT
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Higher TaxaLacertidae, Lacertinae, Sauria, Lacertoidea, Squamata (lizards)
Subspecies 
Common NamesG: Bastardeidechse 
SynonymLacerta mixta MÉHELY 1909: 581
Lacerta composita MÉHELY 1909 (nomen oblitum)
Lacerta saxicola mixta LANTZ & CYREN 1936
Lacerta (Zootoca) “mixta” — BISCHOFF 1978
Lacerta mixta — ENGELMANN et al 1993
Lacerta mixta — FU & MURPHY 1997
Darevskia mixta — ARRIBAS 1997
Lacerta mixta — FU, MURPHY & DAREVSKY 2000
Darevskia mixta — MURPHY et al. 2000
Archaeolacerta (Caucasilacerta) mixta — SINDACO et al. 2000
Lacerta mixta — SZCZERBAK 2003
Darevskia mixta — BISCHOFF 2007
Lacerta (Darevskia) mixta — SINDACO & JEREMČENKO 2008 
DistributionSW Republic of Georgia (Small Caucasus)

Type locality: Abastumani, Republic of Georgia  
Reproductionoviparous 
TypesLectotype: SMF 12087, designated by R. Mertens 1967. 
DiagnosisAdditional details, e.g. a detailed description or comparisons (1988 characters), are available for collaborators and contributors. Please contact us for details. 
CommentSynonymy partly after KHALIKOV & ANANJEVA (pers. comm.). This species is not listed in the Zoological Record (1909) where other species described by MÉHELY are listed.

Distribution: also in Turkey (fide web site Türkiye'de Kaç Tür KertenkeleYas¸ıyor), but not in Turkey fide Gabelaia et al. 2015. 
References
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  • Bischoff, W. 2007. Auf der Suche nach Gebirgseidechsen in drei Erdteilen. Draco 7 (27): 54-73 - get paper here
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  • Doronin, Igor V. 2018. The Taxonomic Status of Lacerta mixta Méhely, 1909 (Squamata: Sauria: Lacertidae). Russ. J. Herpetol. 25 (2): 143-146 - get paper here
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  • Engelmann, W.E. et al. 1993. Lurche und Kriechtiere Europas. Neumann Verlag (Radebeul, Germany), 440 pp.
  • Freitas, S., Westram, A.M., Schwander, T., Arakelyan, M., Ilgaz, Ç., Kumlutas, Y., Harris, D.J., Carretero, M.A. and Butlin, R.K. 2022. Parthenogenesis in Darevskia lizards - a rare outcome of common hybridisation, not a common outcome of rare hybridisation Parthenogenesis, gene flow and hybridisation. Evolution - get paper here
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  • 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
  • Gabelaia, Mariam, David Tarkhnishvili and Marine Murtskhvaladze. 2015. Phylogeography and morphological variation in a narrowly distributed Caucasian rock lizard, Darevskia mixta. Amphibia-Reptilia 36 (1): 45-54 - get paper here
  • Gabelaia, Mariam; Dominique Adriaens, David Tarkhnishvili 2017. Phylogenetic signals in scale shape in Caucasian rock lizards (Darevskia species). Zoologischer Anzeiger 268: 32–40 - get paper here
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