Darevskia

Darevskia defilippii

Taxonavigation

Taxonavigation: Lacertibaenia

Superregnum: Eukaryota Cladus: Unikonta Cladus: Opisthokonta Cladus: Holozoa Regnum: Animalia Subregnum: Eumetazoa Cladus: Bilateria Cladus: Nephrozoa Superphylum: Deuterostomia Phylum: Chordata Subphylum: Vertebrata Infraphylum: Gnathostomata Megaclassis: Osteichthyes Cladus: Sarcopterygii Cladus: Rhipidistia Cladus: Tetrapodomorpha Cladus: Eotetrapodiformes Cladus: Elpistostegalia Superclassis: Tetrapoda Cladus: Reptiliomorpha Cladus: Amniota Classis: Reptilia Cladus: Eureptilia Cladus: Romeriida Subclassis: Diapsida Cladus: Sauria Infraclassis: Lepidosauromorpha Superordo: Lepidosauria Ordo: Squamata Cladus: Unidentata Episquamata Subordo: Lacertoidea Infraordo: Lacertibaenia

Familia: Lacertidae
Subfamilia: Lacertinae
Genus: Darevskia
Species (36): D. adjarica – D. aghasyani – D. alpina – D. armeniaca – D. bendimahiensis – D. bithynica – D. brauneri – D. caspica – D. caucasica – D. chlorogaster – D. clarkorum – D. daghestanica – D. dahli – D. defilippii – D. derjugini – D. dryada – D. kamii – D. kopetdaghica – D. lindholmi – D. mixta – D. nairensis – D. parvula – D. portschinskii – D. praticola – D. raddei – D. rostombekovi – D. rudis – D. salihae – D. sapphirina – D. saxicola – D. schaekeli – D. steineri – D. szczerbaki – D. tuniyevi – D. unisexualis – D. uzzelli – D. valentini

Name

Darevskia Arribas, 1999: 17 [conserved name]

• Type species: Lacerta saxicola Eversmann, 1834, by original designation.
• Gender: feminine.
• Etymology: named after Ilya Sergeevich Darevsky.
• Placed on the Official List of Generic Names in Zoology by Opinion 2461 (2020: 135).

Synonymy

• Darevskia Arribas, 1997: 305 [unavaliable name by Opinion 2461 (2020: 135)]
  • Type species: Lacerta saxicola Eversmann, 1834, by original designation.
• Caucasilacerta Harris, Arnold & Thomas, 1998: 1947 [nomen nudum fide Arribas (2016: 306) and Opinion 2461 (2020: 135)]
  • Type species: Lacerta saxicola Eversmann, 1834, by original designation.
  • Placed on the Official Index of Rejected and Invalid Generic Names in Zoology by Opinion 2461 (2020: 135).

References

Primary references

• Arribas, O.J. 1997. Morfología, filogenia y biogeografía de las lagartijas de alta montaña de los Pirineos. Publications Universitat Autònoma Barcelona: Barcelona, Spain. 353 pp. Reference page. 
• Harris, D.J., Arnold, E.N. & Thomas, R.H. 1998. Relationships of lacertid lizards (Reptilia: Lacertidae) estimated from mitochondrial DNA sequences and morphology. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 265(1409): 1939–1948. DOI: 10.1098/rspb.1998.0524 Reference page. 
• Arribas, O.J. 1999. Phylogeny and relationships of the mountain lizards of Europe and Near East (Archaeolacerta Mertens, 1921, sensu lato) and their relationships among the Eurasian lacertid radiation. Russian Journal of Herpetology 6(1): 1–22. DOI: 10.30906/1026-2296-1999-6-1-1-22 [nonfunctional] Reference page. 
• International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature. 2020. Opinion 2461. (Case 3711) – Iberolacerta Arribas, 1999 and Darevskia Arribas, 1999 (Chordata, Squamata, Lacertidae): names confirmed as available. Bulletin of Zoological Nomenclature 77: 135–137. DOI: 10.21805/bzn.v77.a043 Reference page. 

Additional references

• Fu, J.-Z., Murphy, R.W. & Darevsky, I.S. 1997. Toward the phylogeny of Caucasian rock lizards: implications from mitochondrial DNA gene sequences (Reptilia: Lacertidae). Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 120(4): 463–477. DOI: 10.1111/j.1096-3642.1997.tb01283.x Reference page. 
• Arnold, E.N., Arribas, O. & Carranza, S. 2007. Systematics of the Palaearctic and Oriental lizard tribe Lacertini (Squamata: Lacertidae: Lacertinae), with descriptions of eight new genera. Zootaxa 1430: 1–86. Abstract & excerpt. Reference page. 
• Kosushkin, S.A. & Grechko, V.V. 2013. Molecular genetic relationships and some issues of systematics of rock lizards of the genus Darevskia (Squamata: Lacertidae) based on locus analysis of SINE-type repeats (Squam1). Russian Journal of Genetics 49(8): 857–869. DOI: 10.7868/S0016675813070084 Reference page. 
• Ahmadzadeh, F., Flecks, M., Carretero, M.A., Mozaffari, O., Böhme, W., Harris, D.J., Freitas, S. & Rödder, D. 2013. Cryptic speciation patterns in Iranian rock lizards uncovered by integrative taxonomy. PLoS ONE 8(12): e80563. DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0080563 Reference page. 
• Arribas, O.J. 2016. Why Caucasilacerta Harris, Arnold et Thomas, 1998 is a nomen nudum? Russian Journal of Herpetology 23(4): 305–306. DOI: 10.30906/1026-2296-2016-23-4-305-306 [nonfunctional] Reference page. 
• Busack, S.D., Salvador, A., Bauer, A.M. & Kaiser, H. 2016. Darevskia and Iberolacerta (Reptilia, Lacertidae): Arribas, 1997 or 1999? The correct dating of two nomenclatural acts affecting Palearctic lizards, and validation of the name Caucasilacerta Harris, Arnold & Thomas, 1998. Bionomina 10: 61–73. DOI: 10.11646/bionomina.10.1.4 Reference page. 
• Arribas, O.J., Ananjeva, N.B., Carranza, S., Doronin, I.V., Harris, D.J., Orlov, N.L. & Orlova, V.F. 2017. The pernicious effect of retroactive changes in the Code: Darevskia and nomenclatorial stability, a reply to Busack et al. (2016). Basic and Applied Herpetology 31: 125-129. DOI: 10.11160/bah.75 Reference page. 
• Arribas, O., Ilgaz, Ç. & Kumlutaş, Y. 2018. Reevaluation of the intraspecific variability in Darevskia parvula (Lantz & Cyren, 1913): an integrated approach using morphology, osteology and genetics (Squamata: Lacertidae). Zootaxa 4472(1): 71–99. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4472.1.3 Reference page. 
• Arribas, O.J., Ananjeva, N.B., Carranza, S., Doronin, I.V., Orlov, N.L. & Orlova, V.F. 2018. Case 3711 – Iberolacerta Arribas and Darevskia Arribas (Chordata, Squamata, Lacertidae): proposals to deem these names available either from Arribas (1997) or from Arribas (1999). Bulletin of Zoological Nomenclature 75(1): 122–129. DOI: 10.21805/bzn.v75.a026 Reference page. 
• Tuniyev, B.S. & Petrova, T.V. 2019. A new lizard species of the genus Darevskia Arribas, 1997 from Southern Armenia. Proceedings of the Zoological Institute RAS 323(2): 136–148. DOI: 10.31610/trudyzin/2019.323.2.136 Reference page. 
• Arribas, O., Candan, K., Kurnaz, M., Kumlutaş, Y., Yıldırım Caynak, E. & Ilgaz, Ç. 2022. A new cryptic species of the Darevskia parvula group from NE Anatolia (Squamata, Lacertidae). Organisms Diversity & Evolution 22: 475–490. DOI: 10.1007/s13127-022-00540-4 Reference page. 

Links

• Uetz, P. & Hallermann, J. 2024. Darevskia . The Reptile Database. Accessed on 30 April 2022.

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Vernacular names

Deutsch: Kaukasische Felseidechsen
English: Caucasian Rock Lizards