Darevskia dahli
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Reptilia
Order: Squamata
Family: Lacertidae
Genus: Darevskia
Species:
D. dahli
Binomial name
Darevskia dahli
(Darevsky, 1957)
Synonyms[2]
  • Lacerta saxicola dahli
    Darevsky, 1957
  • Lacerta dahli
    — Darevsky, 1966
  • Darevskia dahli
    — Arribas, 1997

Darevskia dahli is a species of lizard in the family Lacertidae. The species is native to Eastern Europe and Western Asia.

Etymology

The specific name, dahli, is in honor of Russian zoologist Sergei Konstantinovich Dahl.[3]

Geographic range

D. dahli is found in Armenia, Georgia, and Ukraine.[1][2]

Habitat

The preferred natural habitats of D. dahli are forest and rocky areas, at altitudes of 900–1,700 m (3,000–5,600 ft).[1]

Reproduction

D. dahli is oviparous and parthenogenetic.[2] An adult female may lay a clutch of 2–5 eggs.[1]

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 Agasyan A, Ananjeva NB (2009). "Darevskia dahli (errata version published in 2017)". The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2009: e.T164720A114536951. https://doi.org/10.2305/IUCN.UK.2009.RLTS.T164720A5920615.en. Downloaded on 25 May 2019.
  2. 1 2 3 Darevskia dahli at the Reptarium.cz Reptile Database. Accessed 25 May 2019.
  3. ↑ Beolens, Bo; Watkins, Michael, Grayson, Michael (2011). The Eponym Dictionary of Reptiles. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. xiii + 296 pp. ISBN 978-1-4214-0135-5. (Darevskia dahli, p. 64).

Further reading

  • Darevsky IS (1957). "[Systematics and ecology of rock lizards, Lacerta saxicola Eversmann, in Armenia]". Zoologicheskii Sbornik, Akademiya Nauk Armyanskoi SSR 10: 27–57. (Lacerta saxicola dahli, new subspecies, p. 32). (in Russian with an abstract in Armenian).
  • Darevsky IS (1966). "Natural Parthenogenesis in a Polymorphic Group of Caucasian Rock Lizards Related to Lacerta saxicola Eversmann". Journal of the Ohio Herpetological Society 5 (4): 115–152. (Lacerta dahli, new taxonomic status, p. 127).



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