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Mesalina kuri Joger & Mayer 2002

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Mesalina kuri Joger & Mayer, 2002

Mesalina kuri Joger & Mayer, 2002: 502 —Locus typicus: “Abd al-Kuri”. Eremias guttulata [partim].— Steindachner 1903: 12. Mesalina cf. balfouri.— Joger, 2000: 343.

Mesalina kuri. — Rösler & Wranik, 2004: 526, pl. 37. Mesalina kuri. — Rösler & Wranik, 2006a: 126.

Habitat. This lizard is common in flat areas on sandy or hardened ground with more or less dense scrubs; it is the geographical vicariant of M. balfouri in Abd al-Kuri.

Original data. Fig. 23. Abd al-Kuri Island.

Bibliographic data. Steindachner (1903), Joger & Mayer (2002), Rösler & Wranik (2004, 2006a).

General distribution. Endemic to Abd al-Kuri Island.

Remarks. This species, formerly included in Mesalina balfouri, has been recognized as an independent species based on morphological and molecular data.

Notes

Published as part of Razzetti, Edoardo, Sindaco, Roberto, Grieco, Cristina, Pella, Francesca, Ziliani, Ugo, Pupin, Fabio, Riservato, Elisa, Pellitteri-Rosa, Daniele, Butikofer, Luca, Suleiman, Ahmed Saeed & Al-Aseily, Badar Awadh, 2011, Annotated checklist and distribution of the Socotran Archipelago Herpetofauna (Reptilia), pp. 1-44 in Zootaxa 2826 on page 14, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.277271

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Biodiversity

Scientific name authorship
Joger & Mayer
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Chordata
Order
Squamata
Family
Lacertidae
Genus
Mesalina
Species
kuri
Taxon rank
species
Taxonomic concept label
Mesalina kuri Joger, 2002 sec. Razzetti, Sindaco, Grieco, Pella, Ziliani, Pupin, Riservato, Pellitteri-Rosa, Butikofer, Suleiman & Al-Aseily, 2011

References

  • Joger, U. & Mayer, W. (2002) A new species of Mesalina (Reptilia: Lacertidae) from Abd al-Kuri, Socotra Archipelago, Yemen, and a preliminary molecular phylogeny for the genus Mesalina. Fauna of Saudi Arabia, 19, 497 - 505.
  • Steindachner, F. (1903) Batrachier und Reptilien aus Sudarabien und Sokotra, gesammelt wahrend der sudarabische Expedition der kaiserlichen Akademie der Wissenschaften. Sitzungsberichte der Kaiserlichen Akademie der Wissenschften, Mat. - Naturw. kl., Wien, 112 7 - 14.
  • Joger, U. (2000) The reptile fauna of the Socotra Archipelago. In: Rheinwald, G. (Ed.), Isolated vertebrate communities in the tropics. Bonner Zoologische Monographien, 46, 337 - 356.
  • Rosler, H. & Wranik, W. (2004) A key and annotated checklist to the reptiles of the Socotra Archipelago. Fauna of Saudi Arabia, 20, 505 - 534.
  • Rosler, H. & Wranik, W. (2006 a) The reptiles of the Socotra archipelago with special remarks on the slender blind snakes (Leptotyphlopidae: Leptotyphlops). In: Vences, M., Kohler, J. & Bohme, W., (Eds), Herpetologia Bonnensis II. Proceedings of the 13 th Congress of the Societas Europaea Herpetologica, Societas Europaea Herpetologica, Bonn, 125 - 128.