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all_Short_Notes_(Seiten 59-112):SHORT_NOTE.qxd 07.08.2017 19:01 Seite 20 78 SHORT NOTE HERPETOZOa 30 (1/2) Wien, 30. Juli 2017 SHORT NOTE genus Teius MERREM , 1820 (Reptilia: Squamata: Table 1: Climate data of Çanakkale Meteoro - Teiidae).- Zootaxa, auckland; 4136 (3): 491-514. logy Station ( BiCkiCi & B alaS 2010), representative of kEY WORDS: Reptilia: Squamata: Sauria: the near Çardak lagoon area. Teiidae: Teius suquiensis , parthenogenetic species, chorology, new record, los Juríes, Santiago del Estero, Parameter Value argentina annual mean temperature 14.9 °C SUBMiTTED: June 27, 2016 Mean temperature of January (coldest aUTHORS: Jorge CéSPEDEZ 1) , Pier CaCCi - month) 6.3 °C ali (Cor responding author < pier.cacciali@senckenberg. Mean temperature of July (hottest month) 25.0 °C de >) 2, 3, 4) , Martha MOTTE 5) & Juan CéSPEDEZ 6) Mean annual rainfall 595.6 mm 1) Departamento de Biología. Facultad de Cien - Rainfall in December, the month cias Exactas y Naturales y agrimensura, Universidad of maximum rainfall 103.3 mm Nacional del Nordeste. av. libertad 5470, (3400) Cor - Rainfall in august, the month rientes, argentina. of lowest rainfall 4.1 mm 2) Senckenberg Forschungsinstitut und Natur - Sea water temperature in summer 24 °C museum, Senckenberganlage 25, 60325 Frankfurt am Sea water temperature in winter 7 °C Main, Germany. 3) Johann Wolfgang Goethe-University, institute for Ecology, Evolution & Diversity, Biologicum, Building C, Max-von-laue-Straße 13, 60438 Frankfurt am Main, Germany. (1952). Further records of the species refer 4) instituto de investigación Biológica del Para- to northwestern anatolia ( BaRaN 1977; guay, Del Escudo 1607, 1425 asunción, Paraguay. NilSON et al. 1988; BERGMaN & N ORSTRöM 5) Museo Nacional de Historia Natural del Para - RaNZEN EYNiE aRaN guay, Sucursal 1, Campus U.N.a, 2169 San lorenzo, 1990; F 1990; T 1991; B Paraguay. et al. 1992; MUlDER 1995; S iNDaCO et al. 6) Our lady of itati College, EEUU 305, (3400) 2000; BülBül et al. 2015). all specimens Corrientes, argentina. of the European and anatolian parts of Turkey were assigned to the widespread nominate race already by MERTENS (1952), which was later confirmed by POUlakakiS Podarcis tauricus (PallaS , 1814), et al. (2005) with molecular stud ies. The new to the anatolian part of the distribution of P. tauricus in Turkey is shown in BülBül et al. (2015). in the present note, Province of Çanakkale, Turkey the authors report a new Turkish record local - ity of this species from anatolian Çanakkale . Three out of 23 species of Pod arcis , Six adult specimens of P. tauricus were namely P. muralis (l aURENTi , 1768) , P. seen at the banks of the lagoon of Çardak siculus (R aFiNESqUE -S CHMalTZ , 1810), and (Province of Çanakkale, Turkey) on March P. tauricus (PallaS , 1814), are known to 08, 2016, two of which, a female (Fig. 1) and extend their range into the territory of a male, were collected according to the guide - Turkey (S iNDaCO & J EREMčENkO 2008; lines of the university’s ethics committee BaRaN et al. 2012, UETZ et al. 2016 ). (2016/03–01), an esthethized (ether), pre - The distribution of the chiefly south - served (70 % ethanol) and stored in the col - east European species P. tauricus is well lection of the Zoology Museum at the Bio - described by various compilatory publica - logy Department in the Faculty of arts and tions ( GaSC et al. 1997; BöHME et al. 2009; Science at Çanakkale Onsekiz Mart Uni - BaRaN et al. 2012; BülBül et al. 2015). versity (ZM-COMU 1-2016). The speci - The first records from Turkey stem from its mens are in full agreement with P. t. tauri - European part at istanbul ( SCHREiBER 1912; cus in terms of coloration and pholidosis CYRéN 1924; a NDRéN & N ilSON 1976); sub - (see data in BaşOğlU & B aRaN 1977; Ç EVik sequently, various Thracian localities were 1999; B aRaN & a TaTüR 1998; B ül Bül et al. added ( ClaRk & C laRk 1973; B aşOğlU & 2015). The new record extends the known BaRaN 1977; F RaNZEN 1990; Ç EVik 1999; distribution area of the species across the TOk & Ç iÇEk 2014). The first anatolian Hellespont. record (Beykoz, İstanbul) was published by The lagoon (40°22’51” - 40°23’ 36”N BiRD (1936), another one (Polenezköy , İstan - and 26°42’45” - 26°44’18”E), which occu - bul) by BODENHEiMER (1944) and MERTENS pies an area of 1.2 square kilometers, is lo - all_Short_Notes_(Seiten 59-112):SHORT_NOTE.qxd 07.08.2017 19:01 Seite 21 SHORT NOTE HERPETOZOa 30 (1/2) Wien, 30. Juli 2017 SHORT NOTE 79 Fig. 1: Female Podarcis tauricus (PallaS , 1814), from the Çardak lagoon, Çanakkale (ZM-COMU 1-2016). cated at the northeastern coast of the Çanak - 2011). The soil of the terrestrial habitat of kale Strait (Dardanelles), separating Europe the lagoon is sandy and salty, Juncus acutus and asia. This locality exhibits the charac - (Spiny rush) being the dominant shrub veg - teristics of a transition zone between Medi - etation in the area (Fig. 2). terranean and Black Sea climate types. REFERENCES: aNDRéN , C. & N ilSON , G. Climate data collected during 32 years at (1976): Observations on the herpetofauna of Turkey in Çanakkale Meteorology Station are shown 1968-1973.- British Journal of Herpetology, london; in Table 1. 5: 575-584. BaRaN , İ. (1977): anadolu Lacerta tauri - ca örneklerinin taksonomik durumu.- Ege üniversitesi The Çardak lagoon was declared a Fen Fakültesi Dergisi (Ser B) C1: 302-307. 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    Herpetology Notes, volume 13: 105-107 (2020) (published online on 05 February 2020) A predation case of Anguis graeca Bedriaga, 1881 (Squamata: Anguidae) by Lacerta trilineata Bedriaga, 1886 (Squamata: Lacertidae) from Central Greece Apostolos Christopoulos1,*, Dimitris Zogaris2, Ioannis Karaouzas3, and Stamatis Zogaris3 Lizards constitute the most numerous reptile group Aegean Seas) in a wide variety of habitats (Valakos in Greece containing 41 species of which 21 belong et al., 2008). Outside of Greece, Lacerta trilineata in lacertid family (Lymberakis et al., 2008; Valakos is distributed from the NE Adriatic coast to Albania, et al., 2008; Gvoždík et al., 2010; Psonis et al., 2017; Republic of North Macedonia, Bulgaria, SE Romania Kalaentzis et al., 2018; Kornilios et al., 2018; Kotsakiozi and western Anatolia (Speybroeck et al., 2016). et al., 2018; Strachinis et al., 2019). Mediterranean The Greek slow worm Anguis graeca Bedriaga, 1881 is lacertid lizards consume almost all orders of Arthropoda a long bodied, legless lizard (TL: 50 cm; SVL: 22 cm) that and some Gastropoda, very small vertebrates and even occurs in mainland Greece (western Macedonia; western some plant elements (Carretero, 2004), fruits (Brock and central Greece; northern Peloponnese; Kerkyra and et al., 2014; Mačát et al., 2015) or eggs (Brock et al., Euboea Islands), Albania, southern Montenegro and NE 2014; Žagar et al., 2016). However, some cases of Republic of North Macedonia (Jablonski et al., 2016). saurophagy (Capula and Aloise, 2011; Dias et al., 2016; Anguis graeca mainly occurs in vegetated and humid Andriopoulos and Pafilis, 2019) and cannibalism (Grano localities and usually it is found hidden in vegetation et al., 2011; Žagar and Carretero, 2012; Madden and and under woodland debris (Valakos et al., 2008).
  • Species Diversity and Distribution of Lizards in Montenegro

    Species Diversity and Distribution of Lizards in Montenegro

    Acta Herpetologica 13(1): 3-11, 2018 DOI: 10.13128/Acta_Herpetol-21327 Species diversity and distribution of lizards in Montenegro Katarina Ljubisavljević1,2,*, Ljiljana Tomović3, Aleksandar Urošević1, Slađana Gvozdenović2, Vuk Iković2, Vernes Zagora2, Nenad Labus4 1 Department of Evolutionary Biology, Institute for Biological Research “Siniša Stanković”, University of Belgrade, Bulevar Despota Stefana 142, 11000 Belgrade, Serbia 2 Montenegrin Ecologists Society, Bulevar Sv. Petra Cetinjskog 73, 81000 Podgorica, Montenegro 3 Institute of Zoology, Faculty of Biology, University of Belgrade, Studentski trg 16, 11000 Belgrade, Serbia 4 Biology Department, Faculty of Science and Mathematics, University of Priština, Lole Ribara 29, 38220 Kosovska Mitrovica, Serbia * Corresponding author. E-mail: [email protected] Submitted on: 2017, 25th September; revised on: 2018, 28th March; accepted on: 2018, 1st April Editor: Aaron M. Bauer Abstract. The southern part of Montenegro has been identified as an area with high diversity of herpetofauna. How- ever, comprehensive studies of distribution and diversity patterns of reptiles on the country level are still missing. Such studies are essential in designating areas of special conservation importance and nature protection planning in a milieu of increased habitat loss and degradation due to rapid urbanization and tourism development in this small Mediterranean country. To make progress on this problem, we analyzed distribution and diversity patterns of the liz- ards in Montenegro using a large database consisting of literature data and our unpublished records. We found that fifteen lizard species inhabit Montenegro, and two additional species may be present. The lizards were most diverse in the Maritime biogeographic region of Montenegro, while low diversity was found predominantly along the state bor- ders in the Mountain-valley region.
  • ECOLOGIA BALKANICA 2009, Vol

    ECOLOGIA BALKANICA 2009, Vol

    ECOLOGIA BALKANICA 2009, Vol. 1 November 2009 pp. 27-39 Risks and Opportunities of Urbanization – Structure of Two Populations of the Balkan Wall Lizard Podarcis tauricus (Pallas, 1814) in the City of Plovdiv Ivelin A. Mollov*, Miglena V. Valkanova University of Plovdiv “Paisii Hilendarski”, Faculty of Biology, Department of Ecology and Environmental Conservation, 24 Tsar Assen Str., 4000 Plovdiv, BULGARIA *E-mail: [email protected] Abstract. The current study analyzes the structure and some features of two urban metapopulations of the Balkan Wall Lizard (Podarcis tauricus (Pallas, 1814)) from Nature Monument (NM) “Mladezhki halm” and Nature Monument “Halm na osvoboditelite” in the city of Plovdiv (South Bulgaria). In both study sites, the Balkan Wall lizard inhabits exclusively the interior of the hills and prefers mainly open areas with rare grass and shrub vegetation. The recorded dominant plant species are not autochthonous for the hills, but gradually displaced with many decorative species, used widely in the gardening and the city parks. The population abundance from both hills is relatively low, with higher values in NM “Mladezhki halm” and generally shows a decrease pattern for the two year period. In the hills of Plovdiv, the Balkan Wall lizard shows a bimodal diurnal and seasonal activity. Both metapopulations showed a sex ratio close to 1:1 with a slight superiority of the females (1:1.29), but with no statistically significant deviation. The age structure of both metapopulations is almost identical - the highest percentage takes the adults, followed by the subadults and juveniles, with no significant deviations from the normal ratio. The possible reasons for the contemporary distribution and population structure of the Balkan Wall lizard are discussed.