Phoenicolacerta cyanisparsa (SCHMIDTLER & BISCHOFF, 1999)

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Higher Taxa	Lacertidae, Lacertinae, Sauria, Lacertoidea, Squamata (lizards)
Subspecies
Common Names
Synonym	Lacerta cyanisparsa SCHMIDTLER & BISCHOFF 1999: 132 Lacerta cyanisparsa — BISCHOFF 2007 Phoenicolacerta cyanisparsa — ARNOLD et al. 2007 Lacerta (Phoenicolacerta) cyanisparsa — SINDACO & JEREMČENKO 2008 Phoenicolacerta cyanisparsa — TAMAR et al. 2015
Distribution	NW Syria and adjacent Turkey Type locality: Al Bara, south of Ariha (650 m elevation), Syria.
Reproduction	oviparous
Types	Holotype: ZSM 12/1999, paratypes: ZSM, CAS, SMF, ZFMK
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Comment
Etymology	Named after Latin cyanus = blue stone, blue flower, and Latin sparsus = speckled, mottled, spotted, in allusion to the color pattern in adult males.
References	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 Bischoff, W. 2007. Auf der Suche nach Gebirgseidechsen in drei Erdteilen. Draco 7 (27): 54-73 - get paper here Böhme, Wolfgang 2014. Herpetology in Bonn. Mertensiella 21. vi + 256 pp. - get paper here Schmidtler, J. F. & W. BISCHOFF 1999. Revision des levantinischen Lacerta laevis/kulzeri-Komplexes: 1. Die Felseneidechse Lacerta cyanisparsa sp.n. Salamandra 35 (3): 129-146 - get paper here Sindaco, R. & Jeremcenko, V.K. 2008. The reptiles of the Western Palearctic. Edizioni Belvedere, Latina (Italy), 579 pp. - get paper here Tamar, Karin; Salvador Carranza, Herman in den Bosch, Roberto Sindaco, Jiri Moravec, Shai Meiri 2015. Hidden relationships and genetic diversity: Molecular phylogeny and phylogeography of the Levantine lizards of the genus Phoenicolacerta (Squamata: Lacertidae). Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 91: 86-97 - get paper here WARNECKE, R., IN DEN BOSCH, H. A.J. & W. BISCHOFF 2002. Erste Bemerkungen zur Fortpflanzungsbiologie von Lacerta cyanisparsa SCHMIDTLER & BISCHOFF, 1999. Die Eidechse 13 (2): 43-53 - get paper here Yıldırım, Elif 2020. Skeletal Osteology of the Lacertid Lizards Phoenicolacerta laevis (Gray, 1838) and Phoenicolacerta cyanisparsa (Schmidtler et Bischoff, 1999) (Squamata: Lacertidae). Russian Journal of Herpetology 27 (4): 185-194 - get paper here
External links	IUCN Red List National Center for Biotechnology Information http://www.lacerta.de/AS/Taxon.php?Genus=17&Species=49 Google images

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