Latastia doriai BEDRIAGA, 1884

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Higher Taxa	Lacertidae, Eremiadinae, Sauria, Lacertoidea, Squamata (lizards)
Subspecies	Latastia doriai doriai BEDRIAGA 1884 Latastia doriai martensi BEDRIAGA 1884 Latastia doriai scorteccii ARILLO, BALLETTO & SPANO 1967
Common Names	E: Doria’s Long-tailed Lizard
Synonym	Latastia doriai BEDRIAGA 1884: 313 Latastia longicaudata doriai — PARKER 1942: 69 Latastia doriai — ARILLO et al. 1967: 137 Latastia doriai — LANZA 1983 Latastia doriai — LARGEN & SPAWLS 2010: 354 Latastia doriai martensi BEDRIAGA 1884 Latastia doriai var. martensi BEDRIAGA 1884 Latastia doriai martensi — ARILLO et al. 1967: 139 Latastia doriai scorteccii ARILLO, BALLETTO & SPANO, 1967 Latastia doriai scorteccii ARILLO, BALLETTO & SPANO, 1967: 140 Latastia doriai scorteccii — LANZA 1983 Latastia doriai scorteccii — LANZA 1988
Distribution	NW Somalia and adjacent Ethiopia, Eritrea, NW Somalia, Djibuti and adjacent Ethiopia doriai: NW Somalia, adjacent Ethiopia; Type locality: “Rugdeira Sogheira (Adal)”. scorteccii: NW Somalia, adjacent Ethiopia, Djibouti; Type locality: “Mandah, Somalia”
Reproduction	oviparous
Types	Syntypes: BMNH 85.6.15.2-4/1946.9.2.85-87, MSNG 28250 Syntypes: MSNG, BMNH1946.9.2.84 (85.6.15.1), from Keren, Bogos, Eritrea, Africa, Donor: G Doria 1920.1.20.2081 syntypes from Keren, Bogos, Eritrea, Afric, Donor: G Doria [martensi] Holotype: BMNH [scorteccii]
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Comment	Genome: Colston et al. 2025.
Etymology	Named after Marquis G. Doria (Genua). L. d. martensi has been named after Prof. E. v. Martens (Berlin). L. d. scorteccii was named after Prof. Giuseppe Scortecci (1898-1973), Italian herpetologist.
References	Arillo, BALLETTO & SPANO 1967. Il genere Latastia Bedriaga in Somalia. Boll. Musei Ist. Biol. Univ. Genova 35: 105-145 Bedriaga,J. von 1884. Die neue Lacertiden-Gattung Latastia und ihre Arten. Annali del Museo Civico di Storia Naturale Giacomo Doria 20: 307-324 - get paper here Beolens, Bo; Michael Watkins, and Michael Grayson 2011. The Eponym Dictionary of Reptiles. Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore, USA - get paper here Capocaccia, L. 1961. Catalogo dei tipi di Rettili del Museo Civico di Storia Naturale di Genova [MSNG]. Ann. Mus. Civ. Stor. Nat. Giacomo Doria 72: 86-111 - get paper here Colston, Timothy J., Stacy Pirro, and R. Alexander Pyron. 2025. The Complete Genome Sequences of 101 Species of Reptiles. Biodiversity Genomes, February - get paper here Lanza, B. 1983. A list of the Somali amphibians and reptiles. MONITORE ZOOLOGICO ITALIANO, new Ser., SUPPL. 18 (8): 193-247 - get paper here Lanza, B. 1990. Amphibians and reptiles of the Somali Democratic Republic: check list and biogeography. Biogeographia, 14: 407-465 [1988] - get paper here Largen, M.J.; Spawls, S. 2006. Lizards of Ethiopia (Reptilia Sauria): an annotated checklist, bibliography, gazetteer and identification. Tropical Zoology 19 (1): 21-109 - get paper here Largen, M.J.; Spawls, S. 2010. Amphibians and Reptiles of Ethiopia and Eritrea. Edition Chimaira, Frankfurt, 694 pp. Mazuch, Tomáš 2013. Amphibians and Reptiles of Somaliland and Eastern Ethiopia. Tomáš Mazuch Publishing, 80 pp. ISBN: 978-80-905439-0-4 - get paper here Parker, H. W. 1942. The lizards of British Somaliland. Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool. Harvard 91: 1—101 - get paper here Spawls, Stephen; Tomáš Mazuch & Abubakr Mohammad 2023. Handbook of Amphibians and Reptiles of North-east Africa. Bloomsbury, 640 pp. - get paper here
External links	IUCN Red List National Center for Biotechnology Information http://www.lacerta.de/AS/Taxon.php?Genus=39&Species=164 Google images

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