Timon lepidus subspecies

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Timon lepidus subspecies

Postby Peter Oefinger » Fri Jan 03, 2014 2:31 pm

Another question: Is Timon lepidus ibericus a valid subspecies? If so, does anyone have a description?
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Re: Timon lepidus subspecies

Postby Mario Schweiger » Fri Jan 03, 2014 5:11 pm

The "description" is this ;)
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Full paper:
Seoane, V.L. (1884): Identidad de Lacerta schreiberi (Bedriaga) y Lacerta viridis var. gardovii (Boulenger) e investigationes herpetologicas de Galicia -- LA CORUNA IMP. Y. EST. DE VICENTE ABAD 28 - San Nicolas -28: 1 - 19. -- PDF1978 ion DB
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Re: Timon lepidus subspecies

Postby Peter Oefinger » Fri Jan 03, 2014 6:22 pm

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Hm: different colour, different dorsal scales, smaller occipital, different number of ventral scales and femorals... I never checked this :lol:
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Re: Timon lepidus subspecies

Postby Mario Schweiger » Thu Jan 30, 2014 12:36 pm

moe info on Timon l. ibericus:

MATEO, J.A. & J. CASTROVIEJO (1991): Variation morphologique et révision taxonomique de l'espèce Lacerta lepida Daudin, 1802 (Sauria, Lacertidae).- Bull. Mus. natn. Hist. nat. 4e sér., 12, 1990 (1991), section A(3-4): 691-706.

Abstract:
The study of biometric, pholidotic, pattern and coloration features of 832 ocellated lizards supports the validity of the subspecies from S.E. Spain Lacerta lepida nevadensis Buchholz, 1963, and makes evident the existence of another subspecies in N.W. Iberian peninsula, whose name should be, given its preference, Lacerta lepida iberica (Lopez Seoane, 1884). The distribution of the two named subspecies coincides with the most contrasting bioclimatic regions on the distribution area.

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Re: Timon lepidus subspecies

Postby Peter Oefinger » Thu Jan 30, 2014 8:47 pm

hmm - smaller, darker, more contrasty pattern. I think they mean this:
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