. Bonner zoologische Monographien. Zoology. 31. Fig. 8: Head of (A) Vipera raddei (based on a 9 from Digor, province Kars, N. E. Turkey) and of (B) Vipera xanthina (based on a female from Ciglikara, province Antalya, S. W. Turkey), showing main differences in scalation between the raddei species-group and the xanthina species- group (compare Table 5). Morphometric Analyses Cluster Analyses Cluster analysis of population mean values for all the 27 variables used shows that actually three major phenetic groups are evident in both the male (Fig. 9) and the female (Fig. 10) distance phenograms. Th
. Bonner zoologische Monographien. Zoology. 31. Fig. 8: Head of (A) Vipera raddei (based on a 9 from Digor, province Kars, N. E. Turkey) and of (B) Vipera xanthina (based on a female from Ciglikara, province Antalya, S. W. Turkey), showing main differences in scalation between the raddei species-group and the xanthina species- group (compare Table 5). Morphometric Analyses Cluster Analyses Cluster analysis of population mean values for all the 27 variables used shows that actually three major phenetic groups are evident in both the male (Fig. 9) and the female (Fig. 10) distance phenograms. The most distant group contains the population from Bulgar Dagh in Cilician Taurus (K bulgardaghica), followed by two major groups consisting of populations which can be referred to the xanthina species-group and populations of the more eastern raddei group, respectively. A phenetic break is evident between the latter two major groups, and the only relationship in geography between them is the small north Iranian Urmia sample (wagneri), which is from the region whree raddei is also distributed. In both groups, a number of subgroups can be found, which agrees rather well with the present taxonomic division stated earlier in this study. In the male phenogram, the xanthina species-group is first divided into west Anatolian and Greek populations, belonging to the true xanthina, and into the bornmuelleri populations (Beharre and Mt. Hermon). A rather pronounced distance between the different localities can be. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Bonn, Zoologisches Forschungsinstitut und Museum Alexander Koenig
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