Darevskia valentini (Boettger, 1892)

Arribas, Oscar, Candan, Kamil, Kornilios, Panagiotis, Ayaz, Dinçer, Kumlutaş, Yusuf, Gül, Serkan, Yilmaz, Can, Caynak, Elif Yildirim & Ilgaz, Çetin, 2022, Revising the taxonomy of Darevskia valentini (Boettger, 1892) and Darevskia rudis (Bedriaga, 1886) (Squamata, Lacertidae): a Morpho-Phylogenetic integrated study in a complex Anatolian scenario, Zootaxa 5224 (1), pp. 1-68 : 29

- Darevskia valentini (Boettger, 1892)

- Darevskia josefschmidtleri sp. nov.

- Darevskia spitzenbergerae ( Eiselt, Darevsky & Schmidtler, 1992) stat. nov.

- D. spitzenbergerae spitzenbergerae ( Eiselt, Darevsky & Schmidtler, 1992) comb. nov.

- D. spitzenbergerae wernermayeri ssp. nov.

- Darevskia mirabilis Arribas, Ilgaz, Kumlutaş, Durmuş, Avcı & Üzüm, 2013 stat. nov.

- Darevskia rudis (Bedriaga, 1886)

- D. rudis rudis (Bedriaga, 1886)

- D. rudis lantzicyreni ( Darevsky & Eiselt, 1967) comb. nov.

- D. rudis bolkardaghica Arribas, Ilgaz, Kumlutaş, Durmuş, Avcı & Üzüm, 2013

- Darevskia obscura ( Lantz & Cyrén, 1936) stat. nov.

- D. obscura obscura ( Lantz & Cyrén, 1936) comb. nov.

- D. obscura bischoffi ( Böhme & Budak, 1977) comb. nov.

- D. obscura macromaculata ( Darevsky, 1977) comb. nov.

- Darevskia bithynica (Méhely, 1909)

- D. bithynica bithynica (Méhely, 1909)

- D. bithynica tristis ( Lantz & Cyrén, 1936)

This classification can be completed in future studies with the analysis of more informative genetic markers than the single-copy nuclear markers used here, such as microsatellite DNA or genomic SNPs.

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

The data used in the morphology section were mostly obtained from Kamil Candan’s PhD thesis, supervised by Dr. Dinçer Ayaz, which was supported by Dokuz Eylül University with project number 2017.KB.FEN.039. We thank to Dr. Mehmet Kürşat Şahin and Nurettin Beşer for their helps in the field. Finally, we wish to thank both reviewers and the editor for their contributions to improve our manuscript.

CONFLICT OF INTEREST

We declare that we have no conflict of interest.

ETHICS

To realize this study, the ethical committee document numbered 11/04/2016 was received from the Dokuz Eylül University Faculty of Medicine Animal Experiments Local Ethics Committee at the meeting dated 23.02.2016 and decided. In addition, the necessary application for the realization of the study was approved by the General Directorate of Nature Conservation and National Parks within the Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry, Turkey on 05.04.2016.