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Darevskia spitzenbergerae wernermayeri ARRIBAS et al., 2022
Arribas, O. & Candan, K. & Kornilios, P. & Ayaz, D. & Kumlutas, Y. & Gül, S. & Yilmaz, C. & Yildirim Caynak, E. & Ilgaz, C. (2022) -
Revealing biodiversity allows the accurate determination of the underlying causes of many biological processes such as speciation and hybridization. These processes contain many complex patterns, especially in areas with high species diversity. As two of the prominent zoogeographic areas, Anatolia and Caucasus are also home to the genus Darevskia, which has a complex morphological structure and parthenogenetic speciation. Darevskia valentini and D. rudis are two largely distributed taxa of this genus, both of which have a controversial taxonomic delimitation. Here we performed both a highly detailed morphological comparison and a molecular evaluation for the populations in both species groups. The most comprehensive taxonomic revision of this complex was carried out to determine the cases where the data obtained were compatible or not with each approach. As a result of the obtained outputs, it seems that D. spitzenbergerae stat. nov., D. mirabilis stat. nov. and D. obscura stat. nov. should be accepted as the species level, this later with subspecies D. o. bischoffi comb. nov. and D. o. macromaculata comb. nov.. Also, we propose two new taxa: D. josefschmidtleri sp. nov. and D. spitzenbergerae wernermayeri ssp. nov.. It has also been shown that “lantzicyreni” subspecies belong to D. rudis instead of D. valentini. The extensive revision has contributed to subsequent studies to more accurately understand the past histories of species in the genus Darevskia.
Eiselt, J. & Darevsky, I.S. & Schmidtler, J.F. (1992) -
Eingehende Untersuchungen an neu gesammelten Serien der Lacerta valentini BOETTGER zwecks Abgrenzung der Areale der beiden Subspezies L. v. valentini und L. v. lantzicyreni in der Osttürkei, lassen die Existenz von intermediären Populationen erkennen, von denen eine als neue Unterart, Lacerta valentini spitzenbergerae aus dem Cilo-Dag Gebirge, Vilayet Hakkâri der südöstlichsten Türkei beschrieben wird.