Hyalosaurus koellikeri (GÜNTHER, 1873)

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Higher Taxa	Anguidae (Anguinae), Diploglossa, Anguimorpha, Sauria, Squamata (lizards)
Subspecies
Common Names	E: Koelliker's Glass Lizard G: Marokko-Panzerschleiche, Marokko-Glasschleiche
Synonym	Hyalosaurus koellikeri GÜNTHER 1873: 351 Pseudopus apus forma ornata BOETTGER 1881 Ophisaurus koellikeri — BOULENGER 1885: 283 Ophisaurus koellikeri — SCHLEICH, KÄSTLE & KABISCH 1996: 453 Anguis koellikeri — MACEY et al. 1999 Hyalosaurus koellikeri — SINDACO & JEREMČENKO 2008 Hyalosaurus koellikeri — MEDIANI et al. 2015
Distribution	Morocco, NW Algeria Type locality: unknown (”offered for sale by a man who stated that he had just obtained them from a ship coming from North Africa
Reproduction	oviparous
Types	Type: BMNH 1946.8.29.50 (and possibly additional specimens).
Diagnosis
Comment	Limb morphology: hindlimbs only (reduced). Phylogenetics: O. koellikeri is paraphyletic with other Ophisaurus species, but since only a few species are in this clade Macey et al. 1999 suggested to synonymize Hyalosaurus, Ophisaurus, and Pseudopus with Anguis. Type species: Hyalosaurus koellikeri GÜNTHER 1873: 351 is the type species of the genus Hyalosaurus GÜNTHER 1873.
References	Beolens, Bo; Michael Watkins, and Michael Grayson 2011. The Eponym Dictionary of Reptiles. Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore, USA - get paper here Boulenger, G.A. 1885. Catalogue of the lizards in the British Museum (Natural History). Vol. 2, Second edition. London, xiii+497 pp. - get paper here Boulenger, George A. 1891. Catalogue of the reptiles and batrachians of Barbary (Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia), based chiefly upon the notes and collections made in 1880-1884 by M. Fernand Lataste. Tr. Zool. Soc. 13: 93-164 Escoriza, Daniel & Maria del Mar Comas 2011. Nova cita de Hyalosaurus koellikeri (Squamata: Anguidae) a la regió de Debdou (Nord-est de Marroc). Bull. Soc. Catalana d’Herp. 19 - get paper here Günther, A. 1873. Description of a new Saurian (Hyalosaurus) allied to Pseudopus. Ann. Mag. nat. Hist. (4) 11: 351 - get paper here Macey, J.R. 1999. Molecular phylogenetics, tRNA evolution, and historical biogeography in anguid lizards and related taxonomic families. Mol. Phylogenet. Evol. 12 (3): 250-272 - get paper here Martínez del Mármol, Gabriel; D. James Harris, Philippe Geniez, Philip de Pous, and Daniele Salvi 2019. Amphibians and Reptiles of Morocco. Edition Chimaira, Frankfurt am Main, Germany, 478 pp - get paper here Mateo, José A., Philippe Geniez and Jacques Bons 1998. The Moroccan glass lizard, Ophisaurus koellikeri (Günther, 1873), a new species in Algeria. British Herpetological Society Bulletin (63): 32-33 Mediani, Mohamed; José Carlos Brito, Soumia Fahd 2015. Atlas of the amphibians and reptiles of northern Morocco: updated distribution and patterns of habitat selection. Basic and Applied Herpetology 29: - get paper here Mellado,J. & Mateo,J.A. 1992. New records of Moroccan Herpetofauna. The Herpetological Journal 2: 58-61 - get paper here Petzold,H. G. 1971. Blindschleiche und Scheltopusik. Neue Brehm Bücherei 448: 102 pp. Pous, Philip de; Mora, Elisa; Metallinou, Margarita; Escoriza, Daniel; Comas, Mar; Donaire, David; Pleguezuelos, Juan M.; Carranza, Salvador 2011. Elusive but widespread? The potential distribution and genetic variation of Hyalosaurus koellikeri (Günther, 1873) in the Maghreb. Amphibia-Reptilia 32 (3): 385-397 - get paper here Schleich, H.H., Kästle,W., Kabisch, K. 1996. Amphibians and Reptiles of North Africa. Koeltz, Koenigstein, 627 pp. Sindaco, R. & Jeremcenko, V.K. 2008. The reptiles of the Western Palearctic. Edizioni Belvedere, Latina (Italy), 579 pp. - get paper here Werner,F. 1931. Ergebnisse einer zoologischen Forschungsreise nach Marokko. III. Unternommen 1930 mit Unterstützung der Akademie der Wissenschaften in Wien von Franz Werner und Richard Ebner. III. Amphibien und Reptilien. Sitzungsber. Akad. Wiss. Wien Mathem.-Naturw., Sect. 1, 140: 272-318 - get paper here Wiens, J. J., and J. L. Slingluff 2001. How lizards turn into snakes: a phylogenetic analysis of body-form evolution in anguid lizards. Evolution 55: 2303–2318 - get paper here
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