Darevskia dahli
Appearance
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Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Reptilia |
Order: | Squamata |
Family: | Lacertidae |
Genus: | Darevskia |
Species: | D. dahli
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Binomial name | |
Darevskia dahli (Darevsky, 1957)
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Darevskia dahli is a species of lizard in the family Lacertidae. The species is native to Eastern Europe and Western Asia.
Etymology
[edit]The specific name, dahli, is in honor of Russian zoologist Sergei Konstantinovich Dahl.[3]
Geographic range
[edit]D. dahli is found in Armenia, Georgia, and Ukraine.[1][2]
Habitat
[edit]The preferred natural habitats of D. dahli are forest and rocky areas, at altitudes of 900–1,700 m (3,000–5,600 ft).[1]
Reproduction
[edit]D. dahli is oviparous and parthenogenetic.[2] An adult female may lay a clutch of 2–5 eggs.[1]
References
[edit]- ^ a b c d Agasyan A, Ananjeva NB (2009). "Darevskia dahli (errata version published in 2017)". The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2009: e.T164720A114536951. https://doi.org/10.2305/IUCN.UK.2009.RLTS.T164720A5920615.en. Downloaded on 25 May 2019.
- ^ a b c Darevskia dahli at the Reptarium.cz Reptile Database. Accessed 25 May 2019.
- ^ Beolens, Bo; Watkins, Michael, Grayson, Michael (2011). The Eponym Dictionary of Reptiles. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. xiii + 296 pp. ISBN 978-1-4214-0135-5. (Darevskia dahli, p. 64).
Further reading
[edit]- Darevsky IS (1957). "[Systematics and ecology of rock lizards, Lacerta saxicola Eversmann, in Armenia]". Zoologicheskii Sbornik, Akademiya Nauk Armyanskoi SSR 10: 27–57. (Lacerta saxicola dahli, new subspecies, p. 32). (in Russian with an abstract in Armenian).
- Darevsky IS (1966). "Natural Parthenogenesis in a Polymorphic Group of Caucasian Rock Lizards Related to Lacerta saxicola Eversmann". Journal of the Ohio Herpetological Society 5 (4): 115–152. (Lacerta dahli, new taxonomic status, p. 127).