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Pseudotrapelus aqabensis MELNIKOV, NAZAROV, ANANJEVA & DISI, 2012

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Higher TaxaAgamidae (Agaminae), Sauria, Iguania, Squamata (lizards)
Subspecies 
Common Names 
SynonymPseudotrapelus aqabensis MELNIKOV, NAZAROV, ANANJEVA & DISI 2012
Pseudotrapelus aqabensis — MEIRI et al. 2019 
DistributionS Jordan, Egypt (Sinai), Israel, possibly NW Saudi Arabia.

Type locality: Al Aqabah, southern Jordan.  
Reproductionoviparous (not imputed, fide Zimin et al. 2022) 
TypesHolotype: ZISP 26382 (Fig. 2), adult male collected by Daniel Melnikov and Roman Nazarov 21.10.2008. 
DiagnosisDiagnosis: Slender species of Pseudotrapelus with 3rd toe much longer than 4th, four well developed separated preanal pores in males and no enlarged scales in the occipital area. 
CommentDNA Barcode: holotype. BOLD (http://www. barcofinglife.org) sequence ID ZISP G070-09, process ID BM625-04.

Distribution: see maps in TAMAR et al. 2016: Fig. 1, Tamar et al. 2019: Fig. 1, Bar et al. 2021, Tamar et al. 2023: 1034 (Fig. 1). 
EtymologyNamed after the place where new species was found — Aqaba. 
References
  • Aloufi, Abdulhadi A.; Zuhair S. Amr, Mohammad A. Abu Baker 2021. Reptiles and Amphibians of Al Madinah Al Munawwarah Province, Saudi Arabia. Russian Journal of Herpetology 28 (3): 1 - get paper here
  • Bar, A., Haimovitch, G. and Meiri, S. 2021. Field guide to the amphibians and reptiles of Israel. Edition Chimaira, Frankfurt Am Main. ISBN 9783-89973-120-0 - get paper here
  • Dhar, Bishal; Mohua Chakraborty, Madhurima Chakraborty,<br>Sorokhaibam Malvika, N. Neelima Devi, Abdulhadi A. Aloufi,<br>Subrata Trivedi, and Sankar K. Ghosh 2020. Molecular Identification of Reptiles from Tabuk Region of Saudi Arabia Through DNA Barcoding: A Case Study. In: S. Trivedi et al. (eds.), DNA Barcoding and Molecular Phylogeny. Springer Nature, p. 253 - get paper here
  • Meiri, Shai; Amos Belmaker, Daniel Berkowic, Kesem Kazes, Erez Maza, Guy Bar-Oz and Roi Dor 2019. A checklist of Israeli land vertebrates. Israel Journal of Ecology and Evolution - get paper here
  • Melnikov D.A., Melnikova E.N., Milto K.D., Ananjeva N.B. 2014. On an occurrence of Pseudotrapelus aqabensis Melnikov, Nazarov, Ananjeva et Disi, 2012 in the Sinai Peninsula, Egypt. Current Studies in Herpetology 14 (1/2): 27–31 - get paper here
  • Melnikov, D.A. and E.N. Melnikova 2013. Taxonomic diversity of the genus Pseudotrapelus (Agamidae; Sauria) and biogeography of Afro-Arabia. [in Russian, with English Abstract]. Proceedings of the Zoological Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences 317 (4): 438–451 - get paper here
  • Melnikov, Daniel, Ekaterina Melnikova, Dmitry Bondarenko and Zuhair S. Amr. 2013. Taxonomy and distribution of Pseudotrapelus (Agamidae, Sauria) in Jordan. Russ. J. Herpetol. 20 (3): 213-216 - get paper here
  • Melnikov, Daniel; Roman Nazarov, Natalia Ananjeva, Ahmad Disi 2012. A New Species of Pseudotrapelus (Agamidae, Sauria) from Aqaba, Southern Jordan. Russ. J. Herpetol. 19 (2): 143-154 - get paper here
  • Milto, Konstantin D. 2017. New Records of Reptiles on the Red Sea Coast, Egypt, with Notes on Zoogeography. Russ. J. Herpetol. 24 (1): 11-21 - get paper here
  • Spawls, Stephen; Tomáš Mazuch & Abubakr Mohammad 2023. Handbook of Amphibians and Reptiles of North-east Africa. Bloomsbury, 640 pp. - get paper here
  • Tamar, K., Chirio, L., Shobrak, M., Busais, S. & Carranza, S. 2019. Using multilocus approach to uncover cryptic diversity within Pseudotrapelus lizards from Saudi Arabia. Saudi J. Biol. Sci. (2019). doi: - get paper here
  • Tamar, K., Uvizl, M., Shobrak, M., Almutairi, M., Busais, S., AlGethami, R. H. M., ... & Šmíd, J. 2023. A new species of Pseudotrapelus (Reptilia: Squamata: Agamidae) from Central Arabia. Vertebrate Zoology 73, 1033-1045 - get paper here
  • Tamar, Karin; Sebastian Scholz, Pierre-André Crochet, Philippe Geniez, Shai Meiri, Andreas Schmitz, Thomas Wilms, Salvador Carranza 2016. Evolution around the Red Sea: Systematics and biogeography of the agamid genus Pseudotrapelus (Squamata: Agamidae) from North Africa and Arabia. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 97 (2016) 55–68 - get paper here
  • Zimin, A., Zimin, S. V., Shine, R., Avila, L., Bauer, A., Böhm, M., Brown, R., Barki, G., de Oliveira Caetano, G. H., Castro Herrera, F., Chapple, D. G., Chirio, L., Colli, G. R., Doan, T. M., Glaw, F., Grismer, L. L., Itescu, Y., Kraus, F., LeBreton 2022. A global analysis of viviparity in squamates highlights its prevalence in cold climates. Global Ecology and Biogeography, 00, 1–16 - get paper here
 
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