Mesalina adrarensis PIZZIGALLI, CROCHET, GENIEZ, MARTÍNEZ-FREIRIA, VELO-ANTÓN & BRITO, 2021
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Mesalina adrarensis
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| Higher Taxa | Lacertidae, Eremiadinae, Sauria, Lacertoidea, Squamata (lizards) |
| Subspecies | |
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| Synonym | Mesalina adrarensis PIZZIGALLI, CROCHET, GENIEZ, MARTÍNEZ-FREIRIA, VELO-ANTÓN & BRITO 2021 |
| Distribution | Mauritania Type locality. Mauritania, 440 m south-west of the Guelta Oumm el Habâl, 17.4 km east-southeast of F'derick. 22.60636°N/−12.55743°W/372 m a.s.l. |
| Reproduction | |
| Types | Holotype. MNHN-RA-2020.0017, adult female (Figure 7) (Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle, in Paris, France). Collected in the Tiris Zemmour (Mauritania) by Philippe Geniez, Olivier Peyre, Pierre-André Crochet and José Carlos Brito on 7th April 2017. Paratypes. BEV.15163, adult female collected in the Adrar Atar, 44 km before Chinguetti coming from Atar (Mauritania, 20.5537°N/12.6916°W) by F. Martínez-Freiría, J.C. Brito, D.V. Gonçalves, J.C. Campos, Z. Boratyński, C.G. Vale, T.L. Silva, X. Santos, J.M. Pleguezuelos, M. Feriche and A.S. Sow on the 29th October 2011; BEV.15060, adult male, same locality, collected by J.C. Brito, Z. Boratyński, S. Lopes, J. Marques and F. Martínez-Freiría on the 12th September 2015; BEV.15061, adult female, BEV.15062, adult male, BEV.15063, adult male, BEV.16064, adult male, all collected in the Adrar Atar, Oumm Lekhterat (Mauritania, 21.1596°N/11.9362°W) by J.C. Brito, Z. Boratyński,S. Lopes, J. Marques and F. Martínez-Freiría on the 13th September 2015, all preserved in the BEV collection in Montpellier. |
| Diagnosis | Diagnosis: A species of the M. olivieri complex characterized by the following combination of characters: (a) low number of eyelid scales (5–6); (b) with two clearly larger scales, like M. guttulata (several sub-equal scales or rarely 1–2 larger scales in the other species of the M. olivieri complex); (c) small black dots on the edge of the eyelids (mostly visible in dead animals preserved in ethanol); (d) more elongated snout with more prominent nostrils than the other species of the olivieri complex; (e) adult coloration in life (Figure 7) different from all other species of the complex (see Figure S5 and comparison below) (Pizzigalli et al. 2021). |
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| Etymology | The species epithet “adrarensis” refers to the Adrar Atar region because the new species was first suspected when seeing specimens from this region. |
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