. Asiatic herpetological research. Reptiles -- Asia Periodicals; Amphibians -- Asia Periodicals. Vol. 9, p. 140 Asiatic Herpetological Research 2001 Table 1. Percentage of each color pattern in populations of Pelobates syriacus. Population B D Edirne Istanbul Adapazari Samsun Bursa Balikesir-izmir Seydi§ehir Adana-lskenderun Van - - 100 - - - - - - - - . ied Pelobates syriacus from the Turkish region of Izmir. He made an osteological comparison of chra- cte
. Asiatic herpetological research. Reptiles -- Asia Periodicals; Amphibians -- Asia Periodicals. Vol. 9, p. 140 Asiatic Herpetological Research 2001 Table 1. Percentage of each color pattern in populations of Pelobates syriacus. Population B D Edirne Istanbul Adapazari Samsun Bursa Balikesir-izmir Seydi§ehir Adana-lskenderun Van - - 100 - - - - - - - - . ied Pelobates syriacus from the Turkish region of Izmir. He made an osteological comparison of chra- cters used to differntiate the subspecies of P. syriacus. He pointed out that these characters showed a wide range of variation, and refrained from classifying the Izmir P. syriacus into subspecies. In this study, samples (77 male, 57 female, 25 juveniles, 35 larvae) collected from 9 different areas (Istanbul, Adapazari, Samsun, Bursa, Izmir-Balikesir, Seydi§ehir, Adana, Van) were investigated to obtain more information about variation in Pelobates syria- cus living in Turkey (Fig. 1). Results and Discussion There are four kinds of dorsal patterns on Pelobates syriacus (Fig. 2). The dorsal patterns are not sexually dimorphic. The percentage of dorsal patterns are fol- lows: A: %, B: %, C: %, D: %. When all the samples are compared, it is seen that the dorsal pattern of Edirne population is different than the other populations (Table 1). All of the adults from Edirne have big green dots narrow raised surrounding on the back. The back- ground color of the back is light yellow-green. On this background there are connected raised surrounding with brown-green dots. Those dots also appear on all extremities. Furthermore, on the background color, and within the brown-green dots, are yellow and red dots. These dots are missing on the upper side of the front fingers. Dots on the body become smaller on the side. All the Edirne population have C pattern type (Fig. 2
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