. Bonn zoological bulletin. Zoology. 316 Josef Friedrich Schmidtler. Fig. 9. Ventral sides of "Lacerta muralis vars. lilfordi / serpa / brueggemanni" ( now three different species of Podarcis), from Boulenger (1905: pi. XXII). - Hand coloured photos (The combination of hand colouring and photographs was very unusu- al then in natural science). The spotting and the colouration are of systematic importance in these "varieties". The diagnostic fea- tures, especially the sutures of the shields, are not presentable simultaneously in the same figure (See Fig. 8!). - In 1853 t
. Bonn zoological bulletin. Zoology. 316 Josef Friedrich Schmidtler. Fig. 9. Ventral sides of "Lacerta muralis vars. lilfordi / serpa / brueggemanni" ( now three different species of Podarcis), from Boulenger (1905: pi. XXII). - Hand coloured photos (The combination of hand colouring and photographs was very unusu- al then in natural science). The spotting and the colouration are of systematic importance in these "varieties". The diagnostic fea- tures, especially the sutures of the shields, are not presentable simultaneously in the same figure (See Fig. 8!). - In 1853 the new technique of photography had been received with enthusiasm after a publication on reptiles (varans and a crocodile) and other ani- mals ("Even the best painter would not have the patience and ability to make visible all the details and ;; see Niekisch 2010). been described before Dumeril & Bibron. The present-day Lacertidae corresponds to Dumeril & Bibron's subfami- ly "Coelodontes" comprising nine genera. Dumeril & Bibron(1839: 1-19; 181-189) published a substantial his- torical outline of their family "Lacertiens ou Autosaures" and their genus Lacerta, respectively. It is worth mentioning the chapters on "Erpetologie" or "Lezards" in different French natural science dictionaries, which are now more or less forgotten. They mirror im- posingly the general advances in herpetology between 1800 and 1850 and in Lacerta in particular: See Bosc d'Antic (1817: 521-528), Cloquet (1819/1823), Bory de Saint-Vincent (1826/1828), Cocteau (1835) and Meunier in Guerin (1836). Contrary to Dumeril & Bibron (1839), Fitzinger (1843) proved to be a splitter. Within his class Reptilia he includ- ed the categories "Series", "Ordo", "Tribus" and "Famil- ia". The present-day Lacertidae were divided into three families: Lacertae, Tachyscelides and Eremiae. His first family Lace
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