Mesalina bahaeldini SEGOLI, COHEN & WERNER, 2002
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Mesalina bahaeldini
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| Higher Taxa | Lacertidae, Eremiadinae, Sauria, Lacertoidea, Squamata (lizards) |
| Subspecies | Mesalina bahaeldini bahaeldini SEGOLI, COHEN & WERNER 2002 Mesalina bahaeldini curatorum WERNER & ASHKENAZI 2010 |
| Common Names | |
| Synonym | Mesalina bahaeldini SEGOLI, COHEN & WERNER 2002 Mesalina bahaeldini — BISCHOFF 2007 Mesalina bahaeldini — YOUSEFKHANI et al. 2015 Mesalina bahaeldini — SINDACO et al. 2018 Mesalina bahaeldini curatorum WERNER & ASHKENAZI 2010 Lacerta guttulata LICHTENSTEIN 1823 (part.) Mesalina bahaeldini curatorum — SINDACO et al. 2018 |
| Distribution | Egypt (southern Sinai peninsula), Israel, Jordan Type locality: Near St. Catherine Monastery, Sinai, Egypt. curatorum: Egypt; Type locality: Suez, Egypt. |
| Reproduction | oviparous |
| Types | Holotype: HUJ R 10712, Zool. Mus., Hebrew univ. Jerusalem Holotype: ZMB 1122, male collected during 1820-1821 by the W. Hemprich and C.G. Ehrenberg expedition to the Near East [curatorum] |
| Diagnosis | |
| Comment | Distribution: see (unnecessaily confusing) maps in Sindaco et al. 2018: 515 (Fig. 1), Kapli et al. 2008: 104 (Fig. 1). The endemic M. bahaeldini and the widespread M. guttulata are geographically sympatric but usually not syntopic. The former occurs only above 600-1000 m a.s.l., the latter at a wide range of altitudes but its occurrence at the same high altitudes is unclear (from the abstract of SEGOLI et al. 2002). See Bar et al. 2021 for a map. Types: The series of nine syntypes of Lacerta guttulata LICHTENSTEIN, 1823, in the Zoologisches Museum, Berlin, collected by HEMPRICH and EHRENBERG in Egypt and Nubia, is heterogeneous, only six fitting the description of the species. Therefore a lectotype is designated and the species redescribed (from the abstract of SEGOLI et al. 2002). Subspecies: the status of M. b. curatorum remains unclear, given the uncertainty of the type locality of curatorum (in an area between the distribution range of M. guttulata and M. bahaeldini), the lack of clear morphological characters to sort out the taxonomy of this species complex, and the impossibility of including the holotype or paratypes in the molecular analyses of Sindaco et al. 2018. |
| Etymology | Named after Sherif M. Baha El Din (b. 1960), Egyptian zoologist. |
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