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Podarcis peloponnesiacus (BIBRON & BORY, 1833)

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Higher TaxaLacertidae, Lacertinae, Lacertini, Sauria, Lacertoidea, Squamata (lizards)
SubspeciesPodarcis peloponnesiacus lais (BUCHHOLZ 1960)
Podarcis peloponnesiacus peloponnesiacus (BIBRON & BORY 1833)
Podarcis peloponnesiacus thais (BUCHHOLZ 1960) 
Common NamesE: Peloponnese Wall Lizard
G: Peloponnesische Eidechse 
SynonymLacerta peloponnesiaca BIBRON & BORY 1833: 66
Lacerta peloponnesiaca — WERNER 1895: 470
Podarcis peloponnesiaca — BISCHOFF & BISCHOFF 1980
Podarcis peloponnesiaca — ENGELMANN et al 1993
Podarcis peloponnesiaca — PLESSAS 2002
Podarcis peloponnesiacus — BÖHME & KÖHLER 2005
Podarcis peloponnesiacus — PSONIS et al. 2021

Podarcis peloponnesiacus lais (BUCHHOLZ, 1960)
Lacerta peloponnesiaca lais BUCHHOLZ, 1960
Lacerta peloponnesiaca phryne BUCHHOLZ 1960
Lacerta peloponnesiaca lais — TIEDEMANN et al. 1994: 44
Podarcis peloponnesiacus lais — SINDACO & JEREMČENKO 2008
Podarcis peloponnesiaca lais — GEMEL et al. 2019

Podarcis peloponnesiacus thais (BUCHHOLZ, 1960)
Lacerta peloponnesiaca thais BUCHHOLZ 1960
Lacerta peloponnesiaca thais BUCHHOLZ 1967
Lacerta peloponnesiaca thais — TIEDEMANN et al. 1994: 44
Podarcis peloponnesiacus thais — SINDACO & JEREMČENKO 2008
Podarcis peloponnesiacus thais — KWET & TRAPP 2014
Podarcis peloponnesiacus thais — GEMEL et al. 2019
Podarcis thais — KIOURTSOGLOU et al. 2021 
DistributionGreece (Peloponnese, provinces Lakonia, Messenia and Arkadia, Achaia, Ilis [?], Argolis)

lais: Greece (Achaia, Ilis); paratype locality: Vythinia, ca. 1100 m elevation, Peloponnes

peloponnesiaca: Lakonia, Messinia, Arkadia. Type locality: “Mistras bei Sparti (Peloponnes)” restricted by Buchholz (1960).

thais: Greece (Argolis, Korinthia). Type locality: “Aesculap-Heiligtum (400 m), Argolis”.  
Reproductionoviparous 
TypesHolotype: MNHN-RA 2706 (most likely holotype by monotypy)
Holotype: ZFMK 12115 (59/300 in original description), paratypes in ZFMK, NMW, MM and MTD (= MTKD) [lais]
Holotype: ZFMK 12263, paratypes in ZFMK and NMW [phryne]
Holotype: ZFMK 12261, paratypes in ZFMK, NMW and MTD (= MTKD) [thais] 
Diagnosis 
CommentPhylogenetics: Lymberakis et al. (2008) found P. erhardii polyphyletic with respect to P. peloponnesiacus. As a consequence they described 2 new species whose populations were previously assigned to P. erhardii, namely P.levendis and P. cretensis. Alternatively, they could have synonymized P. peloponnesiacus with P. erhardii to avoid polyphyly.

Subspecies: KIOURTSOGLOU et al. 2021 elevated thais to full species. However, the do only provide a molecular diagnosis (although they refer to some morphological differences elsewhere). There is no combination of morphological characters that safely discriminate P. peloponnesiacus from P. thais.

Distribution: see KIOURTSOGLOU et al. 2021 (Fig. 3) for a map of peloponnesiacus proper and thais (called “West” and “East”). 
EtymologyNamed after the occurrence of the species in the Peloponnese. 
References
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