Podarcis peloponnesiacus (BIBRON & BORY, 1833)
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Higher Taxa | Lacertidae, Lacertinae, Lacertini, Sauria, Lacertoidea, Squamata (lizards) |
Subspecies | Podarcis peloponnesiacus lais (BUCHHOLZ 1960) Podarcis peloponnesiacus peloponnesiacus (BIBRON & BORY 1833) Podarcis peloponnesiacus thais (BUCHHOLZ 1960) |
Common Names | E: Peloponnese Wall Lizard G: Peloponnesische Eidechse |
Synonym | Lacerta 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 |
Distribution | Greece (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”. |
Reproduction | oviparous |
Types | Holotype: 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] |
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Comment | Phylogenetics: 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”). |
Etymology | Named after the occurrence of the species in the Peloponnese. |
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