Timon lepidus subspecies
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Fri Jan 03, 2014 2:31 pmby Peter Oefinger
Another question: Is Timon lepidus ibericus a valid subspecies? If so, does anyone have a description?
Re: Timon lepidus subspecies
Posted:
Fri Jan 03, 2014 5:11 pmby Mario Schweiger
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
Re: Timon lepidus subspecies
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Fri Jan 03, 2014 6:22 pmby Peter Oefinger
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Hm: different colour, different dorsal scales, smaller occipital, different number of ventral scales and femorals... I never checked this
Re: Timon lepidus subspecies
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Thu Jan 30, 2014 12:36 pmby Mario Schweiger
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.
PDF-6393 in DB
Mario
Re: Timon lepidus subspecies
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Thu Jan 30, 2014 8:47 pmby Peter Oefinger
hmm - smaller, darker, more contrasty pattern. I think they mean this: