Algyroides moreoticus BIBRON & BORY, 1833

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Higher Taxa	Lacertidae, Lacertinae, Sauria, Lacertoidea, Squamata (lizards)
Subspecies
Common Names	E: Greek Keeled Lizard G: Peloponnesische Kieleidechse, Ionische Kieleidechse
Synonym	Algyroides moreoticus BIBRON & BORY 1833: 67 Algiroides [sic] moreoticus — WERNER 1895: 104 Algiroides moreoticus — BOULENGER 1920: 342 Algyroides moreoticus — BISCHOFF & BISCHOFF 1980 Algyroides moreoticus — ENGELMANN et al 1993 Algyroides moreoticus — BISCHOFF 2007 Algyroides moreoticus — SPEYBROECK et al. 2020
Distribution	Greece (Peloponnese, southern Ionian Islands Kefallinâa, Ithaki, Z∏kinthos) Type locality: “Koubeh”, Peloponnese
Reproduction	oviparous
Types	Type: BMNH 1946.9.3.12 (and possibly additional specimens).
Diagnosis	Diagnosis (genus): Unique among Lacertini in its very large dorsal body scales with oblique keels and a distinctive microornamentation of raised cell borders and pustules: also exceptional in sulcal lips on hemipenial lobes being very small. Other features found only in a minority of other Lacertini include: often small body size, usual number of presacral vertebrae 25–26 in males, and sombre dorsal colouring. Other more widely distributed features include: head and body depressed or not, supraocular osteoderms fenestrated in adults of some species, 7–9 premaxillary teeth in adults, inscriptional ribs sometimes present, tails of hatchlings not brightly coloured, hemipenial microornamentation of crown-shaped tubercles or hook-shaped spines (from Arnold et al. 2007: 34).
Comment	Type species: Algyroides moreoticus is the type species of the genus Algyroides BIBRON & BORY DE SAINT-VINCENT 1833.
References	Andrea Villa, Massimo Delfino 2019. A comparative atlas of the skull osteology of European lizards (Reptilia: Squamata). Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 187 (3): 829–928 - get paper here Arnold, E.N.; Arribas, O. & Carranza, S. 2007. Systematics of the Palaearctic and Oriental lizard tribe Lacertini (Squamata: Lacertidae: Lacertinae), with descriptions of eight new genera. Zootaxa 1430: 1-86 - get paper here Bamann, Thomas; Ines Aust und Dominik Hauser 2021. Quer übers griechische Festland auf Vipernsuche im Corona-Sommer. Elaphe 2021 (2): 26-37 Bedriaga, J.v. 1894. Bemerkungen zu F. Werner “Über Algiroides moreaticus Bibr.-Bory aus Kephallenia.”. Zool. Anz. 17: 455-457 - get paper here Bibron & Bory de Saint-Vincent 1833. Vertébrés a sang froid. Reptiles et poissons. Reptiles. In: Geoffroy & Geoffroy, Expédition Scientifique de Morée, Tome III. 1re partie, Zoologie: pp. 57- - get paper here Bischoff, W. 1981. Algyroides moreoticus - Ionische Kieleidechse. Akademische Verlagsgesellschaft, Wiesbaden, pp. 410-417 Bischoff, W. 1981. Algyroides moreoticus - Ionische Kieleidechse. In: Böhme,W. (ed.), Handbuch der Reptilien und Amphibien Europas, Band I., Echsen I. Akademische Verlagsgesellschaft, Wiesbaden, pp. 410-417 Bischoff, W. 2007. Auf der Suche nach Gebirgseidechsen in drei Erdteilen. Draco 7 (27): 54-73 - get paper here Bischoff, W. & Bischoff, U. 1980. Einige Bemerkungen zur Herpetofauna des Peloponnes. Herpetofauna 2 (4): 17-22 - get paper here BOSCH, H. A. J. IN DEN 2000. Bemerkenswertes Sexualabwehrverhalten eines Weibchens von Alygroides moreoticus BIBRON & BORY, 1833. Die Eidechse 11 (1): 1-4 - get paper here BOSCH, H.A.J. IN DEN 1990. Bemerkenswertes Alter einer Ionischen Kieleidechse Algyroides moreoticus. Die Eidechse 1 (1): 16-17 - get paper here Boulenger,G.A. 1920. Monograph of the Lacertidae, vol. 1. British Museum (London) - get paper here Clark, R. J. and Clark, E. D. 1970. Notes on four lizard species from the Peloponnese, Greece: Algyroides moreoticus Bibron and Bory, Anguis fragilis peloponnesiacus Stepanek, Ophiomorus punctatissimus (Bibron and Bory) and Ophisaurus apodus (Pallas). British Journal of Herpetology 4: 135-137. - get paper here Engelmann, W.E. et al. 1993. Lurche und Kriechtiere Europas. Neumann Verlag (Radebeul, Germany), 440 pp. Harris,D.J.; Arnold,E.N. & Thomas,R.H. 1999. A phylogeny of the European lizard genus Algyroides (Reptilia: Lacertidae) based on DNA sequences, with comments on the evolution of the group. Journal of Zoology 249: 49-60 - get paper here Kwet, A. 2010. Reptilien und Amphibien Europas. Kosmos-Verlag, Stuttgart, 252 pp. Kwet, Axel & Benny Trapp 2014. Liste der Reptilien Europas. Draco 15 (60): 72-79 - get paper here Mendes, Joana; D. James Harris, Salvador Carranza, Daniele Salvi 2016. Evaluating the phylogenetic signal limit from mitogenomes, slow evolving nuclear genes, and the concatenation approach. New insights into the Lacertini radiation using fast evolving nuclear genes and species trees. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 100: 254–267, doi:10.1016/j.ympev.2016.04.016 - get paper here Rovatsos, Michail; Jasna Vukić, Marie Altmanová, Martina Johnson Pokorná, Jiří Moravec and Lukáš Kratochvíl 2016. Conservation of sex chromosomes in lacertid lizards. Molecular Ecology, DOI: 10.1111/mec.13635 - get paper here Sindaco, R. & Jeremcenko, V.K. 2008. The reptiles of the Western Palearctic. Edizioni Belvedere, Latina (Italy), 579 pp. - get paper here Speybroeck, Jeroen; Wouter Beukema, Christophe Dufresnes, Uwe Fritz, Daniel Jablonski, Petros Lymberakis, Iñigo Martínez-Solano, Edoardo Razzetti, Melita Vamberger, Miguel Vences, Judit Vörös0, Pierre-André Crochet 2020. Species list of the European herpetofauna – 2020 update by the Taxonomic Committee of the Societas Europaea Herpetologica.. Amphibia-Reptilia 41: 139-189 - get paper here Strachinis, I., Poulakakis, N., Karaiskou, N., Patronidis, P., Patramanis, I., Poursanidis, D., ... & Triantafyllidis, 2021. Phylogeography and systematics of Algyroides (Sauria: Lacertidae) of the Balkan Peninsula. Zoologica Scripta - get paper here Strachinis, Ilias; Dimitris Aravanis 2017. Additions to the known herpetofauna of the Island of Ithaki, Ionian Sea, Greece. Herpetozoa 30 (1/2): 64 - 66 - get paper here Trapp, B. 2007. Reptilien und Amphibien des griechischen Festlandes. Natur und Tier Verlag (Münster), 300 pp. - get paper here Werner, F. 1894. Die Reptilien- und Batrachierfauna der jonischen Inseln. Verh. Zool.-Bot. Ges. Wien 44: 225-237 - get paper here Werner, F. 1894. Über Algiroides moreaticus Bibr.-Bory aus Kephallenia. Zool. Anz. 17: 256-259 - get paper here Werner, F. 1895. 2. Erwiderung. Zool. Anz. 18: 104-105 - get paper here Zauner, Jochen 2023. Herpetologische Beobachtungen auf dem Peloponnes (Griechenland). Sauria 45 (4): 1-17
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