Darevskia raddei raddei (Boettger, 1892)

Petrosyan, Varos G, Osipov, Fedor A, Bobrov, Vladimir V, Dergunova, Natalia N, Kropachev, Ivan I, Danielyan, Felix D & Arakelyan, Marine S, 2020, New records and geographic distribution of the sympatric zones of unisexual and bisexual rock lizards of the genus Darevskia in Armenia and adjacent territories, Biodiversity Data Journal 8, pp. 56030-56030 : 56030

Darevskia raddei raddei (Boettger, 1892)

Materials

Type status: Other material. Occurrence: catalogNumber: REPAMPHRU2019436 ; recordedBy: Osipov F.A.; individualCount: 1; sex: male; lifeStage: adult; occurrenceID: urn:IEERASBIOINF:REPAMPHRU2019436; Taxon: scientificName: Darevskiaraddeiraddei; kingdom: Animalia; phylum: Chordata; class: Reptilia; order: Squamata; family: Lacertidae; genus: Darevskia; scientificNameAuthorship: Boettger, 1892; Location: country: Armenia; stateProvince: Tavush Province; locality: Forest area near Acharkut ; decimalLatitude: 41.026279; decimalLongitude: 45.052574; geodeticDatum: WGS1984; georeferenceProtocol: GPS; Identification: identifiedBy: Arakelyan M.S.; Event: samplingProtocol: Captured by noose; eventDate: 07/23/2019; Record Level: language: en; rights: https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/; rightsHolder: Petrosyan V.G.; accessRights: http://vertnet.org/resources/norms.html; institutionCode: IEERASBIOINF; collectionCode: REPAMPHRU; basisOfRecord: HumanObservation Type status: Other material. Occurrence: catalogNumber: REPAMPHRU2019452 ; recordedBy: Osipov F.A.; individualCount: 3; sex: fmale; lifeStage: adult; occurrenceID: urn:IEERASBIOINF:REPAMPHRU2019452; Taxon: scientificName: Darevskiaraddeiraddei; kingdom: Animalia; phylum: Chordata; class: Reptilia; order: Squamata; family: Lacertidae; genus: Darevskia; scientificNameAuthorship: Boettger, 1892; Location: country: Nagorno-Karabakh; stateProvince: Shahumyan Province; locality: Zuar ; decimalLatitude: 40.047933333333; decimalLongitude: 46.2367; geodeticDatum: WGS1984; georeferenceProtocol: GPS; Identification: identifiedBy: Arakelyan M.S.; Event: samplingProtocol: Captured by noose; eventDate: 07/10/2018; Record Level: language: en; rights: https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/; rightsHolder: Petrosyan V.G.; accessRights: http://vertnet.org/resources/norms.html; institutionCode: IEERASBIOINF; collectionCode: REPAMPHRU; basisOfRecord: HumanObservation Type status: Other material. Occurrence: catalogNumber: REPAMPHRU2019454 ; recordedBy: Osipov F.A.; individualCount: 4; sex: fmale; lifeStage: adult; occurrenceID: urn:IEERASBIOINF:REPAMPHRU2019454; Taxon: scientificName: Darevskiaraddeiraddei; kingdom: Animalia; phylum: Chordata; class: Reptilia; order: Squamata; family: Lacertidae; genus: Darevskia; scientificNameAuthorship: Boettger, 1892; Location: country: Armenia; stateProvince: Tavush Province; locality: Gosh ; decimalLatitude: 40.73916667; decimalLongitude: 45.02076667; geodeticDatum: WGS1984; georeferenceProtocol: GPS; Identification: identifiedBy: Arakelyan M.S.; Event: samplingProtocol: Captured by noose; eventDate: 07/21/2018; Record Level: language: en; rights: https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/; rightsHolder: Petrosyan V.G.; accessRights: http://vertnet.org/resources/norms.html; institutionCode: IEERASBIOINF; collectionCode: REPAMPHRU; basisOfRecord: HumanObservation Type status: Other material. Occurrence: catalogNumber: REPAMPHRU2019456 ; recordedBy: Osipov F.A.; individualCount: 1; sex: male; lifeStage: adult; occurrenceID: urn:IEERASBIOINF:REPAMPHRU2019456; Taxon: scientificName: Darevskiaraddeiraddei; kingdom: Animalia; phylum: Chordata; class: Reptilia; order: Squamata; family: Lacertidae; genus: Darevskia; scientificNameAuthorship: Boettger, 1892; Location: country: Armenia; stateProvince: Tavush Province; locality: Goshavank monastery ; decimalLatitude: 40.729851666667; decimalLongitude: 44.99711; geodeticDatum: WGS1984; georeferenceProtocol: GPS; Identification: identifiedBy: Arakelyan M.S.; Event: samplingProtocol: Captured by noose; eventDate: 07/21/2018; Record Level: language: en; rights: https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/; rightsHolder: Petrosyan V.G.; accessRights: http://vertnet.org/resources/norms.html; institutionCode: IEERASBIOINF; collectionCode: REPAMPHRU; basisOfRecord: HumanObservation Type status: Other material. Occurrence: catalogNumber: REPAMPHRU2019460 ; recordedBy: Osipov F.A.; individualCount: 2; sex: fmale; lifeStage: adult; occurrenceID: urn:IEERASBIOINF:REPAMPHRU2019460; Taxon: scientificName: Darevskiaraddeiraddei; kingdom: Animalia; phylum: Chordata; class: Reptilia; order: Squamata; family: Lacertidae; genus: Darevskia; scientificNameAuthorship: Boettger, 1892; Location: country: Nagorno-Karabakh; stateProvince: Shahumyan Province; locality: Road to Karvachar ; decimalLatitude: 40.096783333333; decimalLongitude: 46.0338; geodeticDatum: WGS1984; georeferenceProtocol: GPS; Identification: identifiedBy: Arakelyan M.S.; Event: samplingProtocol: Captured by noose; eventDate: 07/10/2018; Record Level: language: en; rights: https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/; rightsHolder: Petrosyan V.G.; accessRights: http://vertnet.org/resources/norms.html; institutionCode: IEERASBIOINF; collectionCode: REPAMPHRU; basisOfRecord: HumanObservation

Notes

The bisexual species, D. raddei , is considered as a complex ( Darevskia raddei sensu lato) containing four forms (subspecies) “raddei”, “nairensis”, “vanensis” and “chaldoranensis” ( Grechko et al. 2007, Rastegar-Pouyani et al. 2012, Omelchenko et al. 2016, Freitas et al. 2016). However, the subspecies " raddei " ( D. r. raddei ) is the only form widely distributed in Armenia, Nagorno-Karabakh, Azerbaijan and the northern province of Ardabil of Iran ( Freitas et al. 2016). Identification of D. r. raddei individuals in different SZs was undertaken by authors using allozyme markers, mt-DNA, multilocus DNA fingerprinting, mini- and micro-satellite markers and morphological traits ( Bobyn et al. 1996, Fu et al. 2000a, Grechko et al. 2007, Korchagin et al. 2007, Korchagin and Tokarskaya 2010, Omelchenko et al. 2016, Freitas et al. 2016). In the field, D. r. raddei was identified using identification guides according to Darevsky ( Darevsky 1967) (Fig. 7 ). During the field survey, we captured and identified 11 individuals, including nine adult females and two males.

The bisexual form of D. r. raddei is widespread in southern Armenia, north-eastern Turkey, north-western regions of Nagorno-Karabakh, south and south-western Azerbaijan and in adjacent regions of north-western Iran ( Darevsky 1967). During the field survey, five SZs were identified with other parthenogenetic and bisexual species in isolated populations in north-eastern Armenia and Nagorno-Karabakh. Three SZs exist in north-eastern Armenia in the Tavush Province and two zones in Nagorno-Karabakh (Shahumyan Province). This species in the two SZs co-exists with the bisexual species D. portschinskii and in two SZs with the "daughter" species, D. rostombekowi . The identified SZs are located in rocky habitats in forest and mountain steppes, including the stone walls of buildings (e.g. on the walls of churches) and stone ruins.

Figures

Figure 7. Distinguishing characters of D. r. raddei (female individual on the photographs). A. Between the average size central temporal and small tympanum shield in the narrowest place, there are 2 - 5 small shields (indicated by arrow); B. The anal shield is large, in front of it, there are two more or less enlarged pre-anals located symmetrically, between which a small third one is often wedged (indicated by arrow). Photos by I. Kropachev.