Darevskia raddei nairensis (Darevsky, 1967)

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 nairensis (Darevsky, 1967)

Materials

Type status: Other material. Occurrence: catalogNumber: REPAMPHRU2018387 ; recordedBy: Osipov F.A.; individualCount: 3; sex: fmale; lifeStage: adult; occurrenceID: urn:IEERASBIOINF:REPAMPHRU2018387; Taxon: scientificName: Darevskiaraddeinairensis; kingdom: Animalia; phylum: Chordata; class: Reptilia; order: Squamata; family: Lacertidae; genus: Darevskia; scientificNameAuthorship: Darevsky, 1967; Location: country: Armenia; stateProvince: Gegharkunik Province; locality: Lchashen, Sevan lake ; decimalLatitude: 40.510698; decimalLongitude: 44.935422; geodeticDatum: WGS1984; georeferenceProtocol: GPS; Identification: identifiedBy: Arakelyan M.S.; Event: samplingProtocol: Captured by noose; eventDate: 07/08/2018; 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: REPAMPHRU2018391 ; recordedBy: Osipov F.A.; individualCount: 1; sex: fmale; lifeStage: adult; occurrenceID: urn:IEERASBIOINF:REPAMPHRU2018391; Taxon: scientificName: Darevskiaraddeinairensis; kingdom: Animalia; phylum: Chordata; class: Reptilia; order: Squamata; family: Lacertidae; genus: Darevskia; scientificNameAuthorship: Darevsky, 1967; Location: country: Armenia; stateProvince: Kotayk Province; locality: Punick ; decimalLatitude: 40.609193; decimalLongitude: 44.60197; geodeticDatum: WGS1984; georeferenceProtocol: GPS; Identification: identifiedBy: Arakelyan M.S.; Event: samplingProtocol: Captured by noose; eventDate: 07/08/2018; 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: REPAMPHRU2018403 ; recordedBy: Osipov F.A.; individualCount: 2; sex: male; lifeStage: adult; occurrenceID: urn:IEERASBIOINF:REPAMPHRU2018403; Taxon: scientificName: Darevskiaraddeinairensis; kingdom: Animalia; phylum: Chordata; class: Reptilia; order: Squamata; family: Lacertidae; genus: Darevskia; scientificNameAuthorship: Darevsky, 1967; Location: country: Armenia; stateProvince: Kotayk Province; locality: Hrazdan city ; decimalLatitude: 40.506393; decimalLongitude: 44.748776; geodeticDatum: WGS1984; georeferenceProtocol: GPS; Identification: identifiedBy: Arakelyan M.S.; Event: samplingProtocol: Captured by noose; eventDate: 07/09/2018; 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: REPAMPHRU2019428 ; recordedBy: Osipov F.A.; individualCount: 1; sex: male; lifeStage: adult; occurrenceID: urn:IEERASBIOINF:REPAMPHRU2019428; Taxon: scientificName: Darevskiaraddeinairensis; kingdom: Animalia; phylum: Chordata; class: Reptilia; order: Squamata; family: Lacertidae; genus: Darevskia; scientificNameAuthorship: Darevsky, 1967; Location: country: Armenia; stateProvince: Gegharkunik Province; locality: Close to Noratus ; decimalLatitude: 40.39722; decimalLongitude: 45.144424; geodeticDatum: WGS1984; georeferenceProtocol: GPS; Identification: identifiedBy: Arakelyan M.S.; Event: samplingProtocol: Captured by noose; eventDate: 07/19/2019; 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: REPAMPHRU2019442 ; recordedBy: Osipov F.A.; individualCount: 5; sex: fmale; lifeStage: adult; occurrenceID: urn:IEERASBIOINF:REPAMPHRU2019442; Taxon: scientificName: Darevskiaraddeinairensis; kingdom: Animalia; phylum: Chordata; class: Reptilia; order: Squamata; family: Lacertidae; genus: Darevskia; scientificNameAuthorship: Darevsky, 1967; Location: country: Armenia; stateProvince: Shirak Province; locality: Keti ; decimalLatitude: 40.864013; decimalLongitude: 43.841847; geodeticDatum: WGS1984; georeferenceProtocol: GPS; Identification: identifiedBy: Arakelyan M.S.; Event: samplingProtocol: Captured by noose; eventDate: 07/25/2019; 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: REPAMPHRU2019478 ; recordedBy: Osipov F.A.; individualCount: 1; sex: fmale; lifeStage: adult; occurrenceID: urn:IEERASBIOINF:REPAMPHRU2019478; Taxon: scientificName: Darevskiaraddeinairensis; kingdom: Animalia; phylum: Chordata; class: Reptilia; order: Squamata; family: Lacertidae; genus: Darevskia; scientificNameAuthorship: Darevsky, 1967; Location: country: Armenia; stateProvince: Gegharkunik Province; locality: Lchap, Sevan Lake ; decimalLatitude: 40.4673; decimalLongitude: 45.0621; geodeticDatum: WGS1984; georeferenceProtocol: GPS; Identification: identifiedBy: Arakelyan M.S.; Event: samplingProtocol: Captured by noose; eventDate: 06/20/2019; 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

Notes

Although early studies found very low genetic differences between D. r. raddei and D. r. nairensis ( Bobyn et al. 1996, Fu et al. 2000a), later studies ( Arnold et al. 2007 Grechko et al. 2007, Omelchenko et al. 2016), however, considered them as two subspecies. Darevskia r. raddei and D. r. nairensis were considered as different subspecies, since they are reproductively isolated in terms of distinctive periods of mating ( Danielyan 1989). In the field, D. r. nairensis was identified using identification guides according to Darevsky ( Darevsky 1967), (Fig. 8 ). During the field survey, we captured and identified 13 individuals, including ten adult females and three males.

The range of D. r. nairensis covers central, south-western Armenia, the western shore of Lake Sevan and is restricted to the north-eastern part of Armenia. This species also inhabits neighbouring regions of north-eastern Turkey and southern Georgia. In Armenia, there are several isolated populations in the north Provinces (Tumanyan and Lori) and in the south-central part (Karmrashen and Vayots Dzor Provinces). During the field survey, six SZs were identified in the three Provinces of Gegharkunik, Kotayk and Shirak. This species has a relatively large number of SZs - four with a "daughter" species D. unisexualis and, with other parthenogenetic species, D. armeniaca and D. dahli , there are two and one SZs, respectively. Our data show that D. r. nairensis has only one SZ with a bisexual species D. valentini . The SZs are mainly located in the rocky habitats of the mountain steppe.

Figures

Figure 8. Distinguishing characters of D. r. nairensis (female individual on the photographs). A. Central temporal shield is small. Between the central temporal and rather large tympanic shields on the sides of the head, there are two or three enlarged shields (indicated by arrow); B. In front of a large, elongated transverse anal shield, there are two large pre-anal ones (indicated by arrow). Photos by I. Kropachev.