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Darevskia dahli

Summary

Darevskia dahli is a species of lizard in the family Lacertidae. The species is native to Eastern Europe and Western Asia.

Darevskia dahli
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Reptilia
Order: Squamata
Family: Lacertidae
Genus: Darevskia
Species:
D. dahli
Binomial name
Darevskia dahli
(Darevsky, 1957)
Synonyms[2]
  • Lacerta saxicola dahli
    Darevsky, 1957
  • Lacerta dahli
    — Darevsky, 1966
  • Darevskia dahli
    — Arribas, 1997

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

  1. ^ 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.
  2. ^ a b c Darevskia dahli at the Reptarium.cz Reptile Database. Accessed 25 May 2019.
  3. ^ 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).