. Bonn zoological bulletin. Zoology. Taxonomic history of the genus Lacerta 319. The numerous and very detailed morphological works of Arribas (1997/1999) resulted in the splitting off of the mainly SW-European genus Iberolacerta Arribas 1997, and above all of the mainly Caucasian genus Darevskia Arribas, 1997 from Lacerta. Thereby also a very old con- troversy (especially of Mehely and Boulenger; see chap- ter ) on the muralis-hke "Archaeolacertae" could be fin- ished. The name Darevskia was given in honour of the great Russian herpetologist Darevsky (1925-2009) who had dete
. Bonn zoological bulletin. Zoology. Taxonomic history of the genus Lacerta 319. The numerous and very detailed morphological works of Arribas (1997/1999) resulted in the splitting off of the mainly SW-European genus Iberolacerta Arribas 1997, and above all of the mainly Caucasian genus Darevskia Arribas, 1997 from Lacerta. Thereby also a very old con- troversy (especially of Mehely and Boulenger; see chap- ter ) on the muralis-hke "Archaeolacertae" could be fin- ished. The name Darevskia was given in honour of the great Russian herpetologist Darevsky (1925-2009) who had detected parthenogenesis in these lizards, and therewith in reptiles (see Darevsky 1967; Schmidtler 2010). Beginning with the comprehensive work of Harris et al. (1998) new genetic methods have also been adopted in the systematics of the lacertids and they have caused here, like everywhere in systematics, a revolutionary situation. DNA sequences from parts of the 12S, 16S and cytocrome b mi- tochondrial genes, together with morphological informa- tion, were used to estimate the relationships within the family. This work was continued by Arnold et al. (2007; Fig. 20 hoc loco). DNA sequences indicated that the Lac- Fig. 12. Schema of the pileus scutellation in Merrem (1820: p. XII-XIII and fig. p. 191 upper part). (Pen-) lithography. - The decisive step ahead in the schematic depiction of lizards was made by Merrem (1820). Based upon his similar system in sna- kes (Merrem 1790 and 1820), he gave names to the pileus shields of an adult Lacerta ocellata (now: Timon lepidus; see his pages XII and XIII) and depicted their abbreviations in this figure. The description covered seven types of scutes with the letters A (Wir- belschilder- Scuta vertebralia), B (Hinterhauptschilder - Scu- ta occipitalia), C (Augenbrauenschilder - Scuta superciliaria), E (Stirnschilder - Scuta frontalia posterioria), F (Schnautzen- schilder - Scuta frontalia anterioria), G (Russelschild - Scutum rostrale, L (Na
Size: 1479px × 1688px
Photo credit: © Library Book Collection / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No
Keywords: ., bookcollectionbiodiversity, bookcontributors, booksubjectzoology
