Iranolacerta Arnold, Arribas & Carranza 2007
Description
Iranolacerta Arnold, Arribas & Carranza, 2007
Two species formerly considered a part of the collective genus Lacerta were elevated to a distinct genus Iranolacerta by Arnold et al. (2007). Although the intergeneric phylogenetic relationships within Lacertinae have not been resolved in details yet (Fu 1998, 2000; Arnold et al. 2007; Pavlicev & Mayer 2009; Pyron et al. 2013), Iranolacerta was confirmed to be sister to Darevskia (Harris et al. 1998; Pyron et al. 2013). The sister-relationship of I. brandtii and I. zagrosica is strongly supported by genetic data; however, morphologically the species are very different. This is probably associated with their different life modes— I. brandtii is a ground dweller whereas I. zagrosica climbs on rocks and hides in crevices (Arnold 1998; Arnold et al. 2006, 2007).
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Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Scientific name authorship
- Arnold, Arribas & Carranza
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Chordata
- Order
- Squamata
- Family
- Lacertidae
- Genus
- Iranolacerta
- Taxon rank
- genus
- Taxonomic concept label
- Iranolacerta Arnold, 2007 sec. Šmíd, Moravec, Kodym, Kratochvíl, Yousefkhani, Rastegar-Pouyani & Frynta, 2014
References
- Arnold, E. N., Arribas, O. & Carranza, S. (2007) Systematics of the Palaearctic and Oriental lizard tribe Lacertini (Squamata: Lacertidae: Lacertinae), with descriptions of eight new genera. Zootaxa, 1430, 1 - 86.
- Fu, J. (1998) Toward the phylogeny of the family Lacertidae: implications from mitochondrial DNA 12 S and 16 S gene sequences. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution, 9, 118 - 130. http: // dx. doi. org / 10.1006 / mpev. 1997.0456
- Pavlicev, M. & Mayer, W. (2009) Fast radiation of the subfamily Lacertinae (Reptilia: Lacertidae): history or methodical artefact? Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution, 52, 727 - 734. http: // dx. doi. org / 10.1016 / j. ympev. 2009.04.020
- Pyron, R., Burbrink, F. & Wiens, J. (2013) A phylogeny and revised classification of Squamata, including 4161 species of lizards and snakes. BMC Evolutionary Biology, 13, 93. http: // dx. doi. org / 10.1186 / 1471 - 2148 - 13 - 93
- Harris, D. J., Arnold, E. N. & Thomas, R. T. (1998) Relationships of lacertid lizards (Reptilia: Lacertidae) estimated from mitochondrial DNA sequences and morphology. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London, B, 265, 1939 - 1948. http: // dx. doi. org / 10.1098 / rspb. 1998.0524
- Arnold, E. N. (1998) Structural niche, limb morphology and locomotion in lacertis lizards; a preliminary survey. Bulletin of the British Museum (Zoology), 64, 63 - 89.
- Arnold, E. N., Nilson, G. & Rastegar-Pouyani, N. (2006) Morphology, mitochondrial DNA and the relationships of the Zagros lizard, Lacerta zagrosica Rastegar-Pouyani and Nilson 1998 (Squamata: Lacertidae). In: Corti, C., Lo Cascio, P. & Biaggini, M. (Eds.), Mainland and insular lacertid lizards: a Mediterranean perspective, Firenze University Press, Firenze, pp. 7 - 11.