Darevskia dahli (Darevsky, 1957)

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 dahli (Darevsky, 1957)

Materials

Type status: Other material. Occurrence: catalogNumber: REPAMPHRU2018392 ; recordedBy: Osipov F.A.; individualCount: 1; sex: fmale; lifeStage: adult; occurrenceID: urn:IEERASBIOINF:REPAMPHRU2018392; Taxon: scientificName: Darevskiadahli; kingdom: Animalia; phylum: Chordata; class: Reptilia; order: Squamata; family: Lacertidae; genus: Darevskia; scientificNameAuthorship: Darevsky, 1957; Location: country: Armenia; stateProvince: Tavush Province; locality: Dilijan ; decimalLatitude: 40.733998; decimalLongitude: 44.81778; 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: REPAMPHRU2018414 ; recordedBy: Osipov F.A.; individualCount: 2; sex: fmale; lifeStage: adult; occurrenceID: urn:IEERASBIOINF:REPAMPHRU2018414; Taxon: scientificName: Darevskiadahli; kingdom: Animalia; phylum: Chordata; class: Reptilia; order: Squamata; family: Lacertidae; genus: Darevskia; scientificNameAuthorship: Darevsky, 1957; Location: country: Armenia; stateProvince: Lori Province; locality: Gogaran ; decimalLatitude: 40.895442; decimalLongitude: 44.202444; geodeticDatum: WGS1984; georeferenceProtocol: GPS; Identification: identifiedBy: Arakelyan M.S.; Event: samplingProtocol: Captured by noose; eventDate: 2018-7-16; 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: REPAMPHRU2019418 ; recordedBy: Osipov F.A.; individualCount: 1; sex: fmale; lifeStage: adult; occurrenceID: urn:IEERASBIOINF:REPAMPHRU2019418; Taxon: scientificName: Darevskiadahli; kingdom: Animalia; phylum: Chordata; class: Reptilia; order: Squamata; family: Lacertidae; genus: Darevskia; scientificNameAuthorship: Darevsky, 1957; Location: country: Armenia; stateProvince: Aragatsotn Province; locality: Tsilkar ; decimalLatitude: 40.736893; decimalLongitude: 44.197427; geodeticDatum: WGS1984; georeferenceProtocol: GPS; Identification: identifiedBy: Arakelyan M.S.; Event: samplingProtocol: Captured by noose; eventDate: 2019-7-16; 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: REPAMPHRU2019420 ; recordedBy: Osipov F.A.; individualCount: 5; sex: fmale; lifeStage: adult; occurrenceID: urn:IEERASBIOINF:REPAMPHRU2019420; Taxon: scientificName: Darevskiadahli; kingdom: Animalia; phylum: Chordata; class: Reptilia; order: Squamata; family: Lacertidae; genus: Darevskia; scientificNameAuthorship: Darevsky, 1957; Location: country: Armenia; stateProvince: Lori Province; locality: Pushkin pass ; decimalLatitude: 40.917347; decimalLongitude: 44.436738; geodeticDatum: WGS1984; georeferenceProtocol: GPS; Identification: identifiedBy: Arakelyan M.S.; Event: samplingProtocol: Captured by noose; eventDate: 2019-7-16; 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: REPAMPHRU2019422 ; recordedBy: Osipov F.A.; individualCount: 1; sex: fmale; lifeStage: adult; occurrenceID: urn:IEERASBIOINF:REPAMPHRU2019422; Taxon: scientificName: Darevskiadahli; kingdom: Animalia; phylum: Chordata; class: Reptilia; order: Squamata; family: Lacertidae; genus: Darevskia; scientificNameAuthorship: Darevsky, 1957; Location: country: Armenia; stateProvince: Lori Province; locality: Pushkin memorial end ; decimalLatitude: 40.93278; decimalLongitude: 44.44017; geodeticDatum: WGS1984; georeferenceProtocol: GPS; Identification: identifiedBy: Arakelyan M.S.; Event: samplingProtocol: Captured by noose; eventDate: 2019-7-16; 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: REPAMPHRU2019424 ; recordedBy: Osipov F.A.; individualCount: 2; sex: fmale; lifeStage: adult; occurrenceID: urn:IEERASBIOINF:REPAMPHRU2019424; Taxon: scientificName: Darevskiadahli; kingdom: Animalia; phylum: Chordata; class: Reptilia; order: Squamata; family: Lacertidae; genus: Darevskia; scientificNameAuthorship: Darevsky, 1957; Location: country: Armenia; stateProvince: Lori Province; locality: Dendropark ; decimalLatitude: 40.93852; decimalLongitude: 44.479332; geodeticDatum: WGS1984; georeferenceProtocol: GPS; Identification: identifiedBy: Arakelyan M.S.; Event: samplingProtocol: Captured by noose; eventDate: 2019-7-16; 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: REPAMPHRU2019426 ; recordedBy: Osipov F.A.; individualCount: 3; sex: fmale; lifeStage: adult; occurrenceID: urn:IEERASBIOINF:REPAMPHRU2019426; Taxon: scientificName: Darevskiadahli; kingdom: Animalia; phylum: Chordata; class: Reptilia; order: Squamata; family: Lacertidae; genus: Darevskia; scientificNameAuthorship: Darevsky, 1957; 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: 2019-7-16; 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: REPAMPHRU2019434 ; recordedBy: Osipov F.A.; individualCount: 1; sex: fmale; lifeStage: adult; occurrenceID: urn:IEERASBIOINF:REPAMPHRU2019434; Taxon: scientificName: Darevskiadahli; kingdom: Animalia; phylum: Chordata; class: Reptilia; order: Squamata; family: Lacertidae; genus: Darevskia; scientificNameAuthorship: Darevsky, 1957; Location: country: Armenia; stateProvince: Tavush Province; locality: Serpentine from Ijevan ; decimalLatitude: 40.868307; decimalLongitude: 45.187475; 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: REPAMPHRU2019437 ; recordedBy: Osipov F.A.; individualCount: 1; sex: fmale; lifeStage: adult; occurrenceID: urn:IEERASBIOINF:REPAMPHRU2019437; Taxon: scientificName: Darevskiadahli; kingdom: Animalia; phylum: Chordata; class: Reptilia; order: Squamata; family: Lacertidae; genus: Darevskia; scientificNameAuthorship: Darevsky, 1957; Location: country: Armenia; stateProvince: Lori Province; locality: Fioletova ; decimalLatitude: 40.715555; decimalLongitude: 44.77062; geodeticDatum: WGS1984; georeferenceProtocol: GPS; Identification: identifiedBy: Arakelyan M.S.; Event: samplingProtocol: Captured by noose; eventDate: 2019-7-24; 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: REPAMPHRU2019440 ; recordedBy: Osipov F.A.; individualCount: 7; sex: fmale; lifeStage: adult; occurrenceID: urn:IEERASBIOINF:REPAMPHRU2019440; Taxon: scientificName: Darevskiadahli; kingdom: Animalia; phylum: Chordata; class: Reptilia; order: Squamata; family: Lacertidae; genus: Darevskia; scientificNameAuthorship: Darevsky, 1957; 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: 2019-7-25; 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: REPAMPHRU2019455 ; recordedBy: Osipov F.A.; individualCount: 1; sex: fmale; lifeStage: adult; occurrenceID: urn:IEERASBIOINF:REPAMPHRU2019455; Taxon: scientificName: Darevskiadahli; kingdom: Animalia; phylum: Chordata; class: Reptilia; order: Squamata; family: Lacertidae; genus: Darevskia; scientificNameAuthorship: Darevsky, 1957; 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: 2018-7-23; 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: REPAMPHRU2019468 ; recordedBy: Osipov F.A.; individualCount: 1; sex: fmale; lifeStage: adult; occurrenceID: urn:IEERASBIOINF:REPAMPHRU2019468; Taxon: scientificName: Darevskiadahli; kingdom: Animalia; phylum: Chordata; class: Reptilia; order: Squamata; family: Lacertidae; genus: Darevskia; scientificNameAuthorship: Darevsky, 1957; 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: REPAMPHRU2019470 ; recordedBy: Osipov F.A.; individualCount: 1; sex: fmale; lifeStage: adult; occurrenceID: urn:IEERASBIOINF:REPAMPHRU2019470; Taxon: scientificName: Darevskiadahli; kingdom: Animalia; phylum: Chordata; class: Reptilia; order: Squamata; family: Lacertidae; genus: Darevskia; scientificNameAuthorship: Darevsky, 1957; 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: REPAMPHRU2019473 ; recordedBy: Osipov F.A.; individualCount: 1; sex: fmale; lifeStage: adult; occurrenceID: urn:IEERASBIOINF:REPAMPHRU2019473; Taxon: scientificName: Darevskiadahli; kingdom: Animalia; phylum: Chordata; class: Reptilia; order: Squamata; family: Lacertidae; genus: Darevskia; scientificNameAuthorship: Darevsky, 1957; Location: country: Armenia; stateProvince: Lori Province; locality: Dorbantvank ; decimalLatitude: 41.113712; decimalLongitude: 44.435583; geodeticDatum: WGS1984; georeferenceProtocol: GPS; Identification: identifiedBy: Arakelyan M.S.; Event: samplingProtocol: Captured by noose; eventDate: 2019-6-19; 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: REPAMPHRU2019475 ; recordedBy: Osipov F.A.; individualCount: 1; sex: fmale; lifeStage: adult; occurrenceID: urn:IEERASBIOINF:REPAMPHRU2019475; Taxon: scientificName: Darevskiadahli; kingdom: Animalia; phylum: Chordata; class: Reptilia; order: Squamata; family: Lacertidae; genus: Darevskia; scientificNameAuthorship: Darevsky, 1957; Location: country: Armenia; stateProvince: Lori Province; locality: Tashir ; decimalLatitude: 41.154566; decimalLongitude: 44.308898; geodeticDatum: WGS1984; georeferenceProtocol: GPS; Identification: identifiedBy: Arakelyan M.S.; Event: samplingProtocol: Captured by noose; eventDate: 2019-6-19; 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

Notes

The parthenogenetic D. dahli lizard is of hybrid origin ( Darevsky 1967, Uzzell and Darevsky 1975). The "maternal" species of D. dahli is D. mixta ; "paternal" is D. portschinskii ( Darevsky 1967, Uzzell and Darevsky 1975, Moritz et al. 1992, Fu et al. 1999, Murphy et al. 2000). Species identification of D. dahli from SZs was carried out by authors in different years using allozyme loci, mt-DNA, multilocus DNA fingerprinting, mini- and micro-satellite markers and morphological features ( Darevsky 1966, Darevsky 1967, Uzzell and Darevsky 1975, Fu et al. 1999, Ryabinina et al. 1999, Murphy et al. 2000, Tokarskaya et al. 2001, Davoyan et al. 2007, Vergun et al. 2014, Arakelyan et al. 2011). In the field, D. dahli was identified using species identification guides ( Darevsky 1967), (Fig. 4 ), since it has previously been shown that identification, based on visual observation, did not cause confusion between the species ( Tarkhnishvili et al. 2010, Arakelyan et al. 2011). During our field survey, we captured and identified 29 individuals. All individuals were found to be females, determined by visual inspection of the genitals.

Darevskia dahli is widespread in north-eastern Armenia, western Azerbaijan and southern and central Georgia. Suitable habitats of the species in north-eastern Armenia are divided into seven vast isolated areas assigned to highland forest, meadow and steppe zones ( Arakelyan et al. 2011, Petrosyan et al. 2020). During the survey, 15 SZs have been identified, 12 of which being located in the two north-western Provinces of Tavush and Lori ( Arakelyan et al. 2011). Darevskia dahli co-exist s in three SZs with a "paternal" species D. portschinskii and with D. armeniaca , D. rostombekowi and D. unisexualis in eleven, three and two SZs, respectively. Identified SZs are located in various biotopes: mountain forests, mountain meadows, mountain steppes and urbanised biotopes.

Figures

Figure 4. Distinguishing characters of D. dahli. A. Between the central temporal and tympanum shields in the narrowest place in the same row, there are 2 - 3 enlarged shields (indicated by arrow); B. In front of the large anal shield, there are always two symmetrical enlarged pre-anal ones (indicated by arrow). The differences between D. dahli and D. armeniaca also exist in number and placement of ciliar granules. Photos by I. Kropachev.