. Asiatic herpetological research. Reptiles -- Asia Periodicals; Amphibians -- Asia Periodicals. Vol. 3, p. 78 Asiatic Herpetological Research April 1990. FIG. 9. Lacerta saxicola darevskii. This lizard is a Colchis endemic whose distribution is restricted to the northwestern part of the Colchis. Coleoptera) [Rodendorf 1939] suggest a good food supply for amphibians and reptiles during the Miocene. It was also in the Miocene that the majority of these species reached the eastern-most parts of the Greater Caucasian Range along its southern slopes and penetrated from there into the Talysh across
. Asiatic herpetological research. Reptiles -- Asia Periodicals; Amphibians -- Asia Periodicals. Vol. 3, p. 78 Asiatic Herpetological Research April 1990. FIG. 9. Lacerta saxicola darevskii. This lizard is a Colchis endemic whose distribution is restricted to the northwestern part of the Colchis. Coleoptera) [Rodendorf 1939] suggest a good food supply for amphibians and reptiles during the Miocene. It was also in the Miocene that the majority of these species reached the eastern-most parts of the Greater Caucasian Range along its southern slopes and penetrated from there into the Talysh across the so-called "Karabakhi Bridge". Safarov (1966), and other scientists, have studied the former direct relations between the Colchis and the Hirkan floras. Even at the present time, the floristic composition of the Kakhetinskij region and of the Karabakh has many common features with that of the Colchis and the Talysh forests (Arushanyan 1973; Sokolov 1977; Takhtadzhan 1978; Gadzhiyev et al. 1985). The end of the Tertiary period was characterized by damping of tectonics due to the broad correlation of the Caucasus and the Balkans (Vereschagin 1958) and the formation of the steppe landscapes along the northern Black Sea coast (Pidoplichko 1954; Scherbak 1966). During that period, such South-European species as Rana ridibunda, Bufo viridis, Emys orbicularis, Anguis fragilis, Coluber jugularis, and Coronella austriaca seem to have penetrated to the Precaucasia from the west. At the same time, such species as Testudo graeca, Pseudopus apodus, Triturus cristatus karelini, Lacerta praticola pontica, L. media, Coluber najadum, and Natrix tessellata got into the Colchis from the west along the Black Sea coast. Early and Middle Pliocene should be considered the beginning of initial fragmentation of the Colchis faunal areas when the Greater and the Lesser Caucasian. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for r
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