Darevskia portschinskii (Kessler, 1878)

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 portschinskii (Kessler, 1878)

Materials

Type status: Other material. Occurrence: catalogNumber: REPAMPHRU2018396 ; recordedBy: Osipov F.A.; individualCount: 3; sex: fmale; lifeStage: adult; occurrenceID: urn:IEERASBIOINF:REPAMPHRU2018396; Taxon: scientificName: Darevskiaportschinskii; kingdom: Animalia; phylum: Chordata; class: Reptilia; order: Squamata; family: Lacertidae; genus: Darevskia; scientificNameAuthorship: Kessler, 1878; Location: country: Armenia; stateProvince: Tavush Province; locality: Road to Dilijan - Hagarcin ; decimalLatitude: 40.76671; decimalLongitude: 44.919407; geodeticDatum: WGS1984; georeferenceProtocol: GPS; Identification: identifiedBy: Arakelyan M.S.; Event: samplingProtocol: Captured by noose; eventDate: 2018-7-9; 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: REPAMPHRU2019427 ; recordedBy: Osipov F.A.; individualCount: 1; sex: male; lifeStage: adult; occurrenceID: urn:IEERASBIOINF:REPAMPHRU2019427; Taxon: scientificName: Darevskiaportschinskii; kingdom: Animalia; phylum: Chordata; class: Reptilia; order: Squamata; family: Lacertidae; genus: Darevskia; scientificNameAuthorship: Kessler, 1878; Location: country: Armenia; stateProvince: Lori Province; locality: Dzoraget ; decimalLatitude: 41.014219; decimalLongitude: 44.379631; geodeticDatum: WGS1984; georeferenceProtocol: GPS; Identification: identifiedBy: Arakelyan M.S.; Event: samplingProtocol: Captured by noose; eventDate: 2019-7-19; 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: REPAMPHRU2019445 ; recordedBy: Osipov F.A.; individualCount: 2; sex: fmale; lifeStage: adult; occurrenceID: urn:IEERASBIOINF:REPAMPHRU2019445; Taxon: scientificName: Darevskiaportschinskii; kingdom: Animalia; phylum: Chordata; class: Reptilia; order: Squamata; family: Lacertidae; genus: Darevskia; scientificNameAuthorship: Kessler, 1878; Location: country: Armenia; stateProvince: Tavush Province; locality: Dilidjan forest ; decimalLatitude: 40.757211666667; decimalLongitude: 44.804148333333; geodeticDatum: WGS1984; georeferenceProtocol: GPS; Identification: identifiedBy: Arakelyan M.S.; Event: samplingProtocol: Captured by noose; eventDate: 2019-7-22; 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: REPAMPHRU2019451 ; recordedBy: Osipov F.A.; individualCount: 4; sex: fmale; lifeStage: adult; occurrenceID: urn:IEERASBIOINF:REPAMPHRU2019451; Taxon: scientificName: Darevskiaportschinskii; kingdom: Animalia; phylum: Chordata; class: Reptilia; order: Squamata; family: Lacertidae; genus: Darevskia; scientificNameAuthorship: Kessler, 1878; 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: 2018-7-10; 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: REPAMPHRU2019453 ; recordedBy: Osipov F.A.; individualCount: 2; sex: fmale; lifeStage: adult; occurrenceID: urn:IEERASBIOINF:REPAMPHRU2019453; Taxon: scientificName: Darevskiaportschinskii; kingdom: Animalia; phylum: Chordata; class: Reptilia; order: Squamata; family: Lacertidae; genus: Darevskia; scientificNameAuthorship: Kessler, 1878; 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: 2018-7-21; 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: REPAMPHRU2019461 ; recordedBy: Osipov F.A.; individualCount: 1; sex: male; lifeStage: adult; occurrenceID: urn:IEERASBIOINF:REPAMPHRU2019461; Taxon: scientificName: Darevskiaportschinskii; kingdom: Animalia; phylum: Chordata; class: Reptilia; order: Squamata; family: Lacertidae; genus: Darevskia; scientificNameAuthorship: Kessler, 1878; 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: 2018-7-10; 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: REPAMPHRU2019467 ; recordedBy: Osipov F.A.; individualCount: 1; sex: fmale; lifeStage: adult; occurrenceID: urn:IEERASBIOINF:REPAMPHRU2019467; Taxon: scientificName: Darevskiaportschinskii; kingdom: Animalia; phylum: Chordata; class: Reptilia; order: Squamata; family: Lacertidae; genus: Darevskia; scientificNameAuthorship: Kessler, 1878; Location: country: Georgia; stateProvince: Kvemo Kartli region; locality: Guguti ; decimalLatitude: 41.200509; decimalLongitude: 44.552717; geodeticDatum: WGS1984; georeferenceProtocol: GPS; Identification: identifiedBy: Arakelyan M.S.; Event: samplingProtocol: Captured by noose; eventDate: 2019-6-18; 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: REPAMPHRU2019469 ; recordedBy: Osipov F.A.; individualCount: 1; sex: fmale; lifeStage: adult; occurrenceID: urn:IEERASBIOINF:REPAMPHRU2019469; Taxon: scientificName: Darevskiaportschinskii; kingdom: Animalia; phylum: Chordata; class: Reptilia; order: Squamata; family: Lacertidae; genus: Darevskia; scientificNameAuthorship: Kessler, 1878; Location: country: Armenia; stateProvince: Lori Province; locality: Karmir Ageg ; decimalLatitude: 40.97993; decimalLongitude: 44.56121; geodeticDatum: WGS1984; georeferenceProtocol: GPS; Identification: identifiedBy: Arakelyan M.S.; Event: samplingProtocol: Captured by noose; eventDate: 2019-6-18; 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: REPAMPHRU2019471 ; recordedBy: Osipov F.A.; individualCount: 1; sex: fmale; lifeStage: adult; occurrenceID: urn:IEERASBIOINF:REPAMPHRU2019471; Taxon: scientificName: Darevskiaportschinskii; kingdom: Animalia; phylum: Chordata; class: Reptilia; order: Squamata; family: Lacertidae; genus: Darevskia; scientificNameAuthorship: Kessler, 1878; Location: country: Armenia; stateProvince: Lori Province; locality: Privolnoe ; decimalLatitude: 41.148065; decimalLongitude: 44.466437; geodeticDatum: WGS1984; georeferenceProtocol: GPS; Identification: identifiedBy: Arakelyan M.S.; Event: samplingProtocol: Captured by noose; eventDate: 2019-6-18; 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

Darevskia portschinskii is a bisexual “paternal” species for two parthenogenetic forms, D. dahli and D. rostombekowi ( Darevsky 1967, Uzzell and Darevsky 1975, Murphy et al. 2000). Species identification in the SZs was carried out by different authors using allozyme markers, multilocus DNA fingerprinting, mini- and micro-satellite markers and morphological features ( Moritz et al. 1992, MacCulloch et al. 1997, Tokarskaya et al. 2001, Arakelyan et al. 2011, Vergun et al. 2014). In the field surveys, species identification was carried out using identification guides ( Darevsky 1967) (Fig. 10 ). In all nine zones, 16 individuals were captured, including 14 adult females and two males.

The range of D. portschinskii covers the valleys of the middle reaches of the Kura River within central and southern Georgia, northern Armenia and north-western Azerbaijan ( Darevsky 1967, Tarkhnishvili et al. 2010, Petrosyan et al. 2020). The range in Armenia begins in the vicinity of Stepanavan in the west and is limited in the east by the Sevan Ridge. Suitable habitats in Azerbaijan cover the border territories with Armenia to the valley of the middle reaches of the river Ganjachaya. The presence of the species in the territory of Nagorno-Karabakh was previously mentioned in literature ( Arakelyan et al. 2011). Within the study area, we identified six SZs in the two Provinces of Armenia (Tavush, Lori), two zones in Nagorno-Karabakh and one in Georgia. Darevskia portschinskii co-exist in three SZs with “daughter” species D. dahli and D. rostombekowi in two SZs. Two parenteal bisexual species D. portschinskii and D. r. raddei co-exist in two SZs ( Uzzell and Darevsky 1975, Galoyan et al. 2019, Galoyan et al. 2020). All zones are mainly located in the lower band of mountain forests in relatively warm and arid forest and shrub biotopes.

Figures

Figure 10. Distinguishing characters of D. portschinskii (male individual on the photographs). A. Central temporal shield is medium size, small or not explicit, from the first upper temporal shield, it is divided by 1 - 5 longitudinal rows of small shields (indicated by arrow); B. Anal shield is large, elongated across; in front of it, one large, more or less rounded at the posterior margin pre-anal shield is located symmetrically (indicated by arrow). Photos by M. Arakelyan and F. Danielyan.