Rastegar-Pouyani NASRULLAH,Karamiani RASOUL,Oraei HAMZEH,et al.A New Subspecies of Darevskia raddei (Boettger, 1892) (Sauria: Lacertidae) from the West Azerbaijan Province, Iran[J].Asian Herpetological Research(AHR),2011,2(4):216-222.[doi:10.3724/SP.J.1245.2011.00216]
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A New Subspecies of Darevskia raddei (Boettger, 1892) (Sauria: Lacertidae) from the West Azerbaijan Province, Iran
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Asian Herpetological Research[ISSN:2095-0357/CN:51-1735/Q]

Issue:
2011 VoI.2 No.4
Page:
216-222
Research Field:
Original Article
Publishing date:
2011-12-15

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Title:
A New Subspecies of Darevskia raddei (Boettger, 1892) (Sauria: Lacertidae) from the West Azerbaijan Province, Iran
Author(s):
Rastegar-Pouyani NASRULLAH1*;  Karamiani RASOUL1;  Oraei HAMZEH1;  Khosrawani AZAR1 and Rastegar-Pouyani ESKANDAR2
1 Department of Biology, Faculty of Science, Razi University, Kermanshah 6714967346, Iran
2 Department of Biology, Faculty of Science, Teacher Training University, Sabzevar 9617976487, Iran
Keywords:
Lacertidae;  Darevskia raddei chaldoranensis;  new subspecies;  Zagros Mountains;  West Azerbaijan;  Iran
PACS:
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DOI:
10.3724/SP.J.1245.2011.00216
Abstract:
Based on extensive field work in the northern Zagros Mountains, a new subspecies of Darevskia raddei (Boettger, 1892) from the west Azerbaijan Province, northwestern Iran is described. The new subspecies is distinguishable from all the other three subspecies of D. raddei based on the combination of several distinguishing characters, such as dorsal body with 50?55 oval to round, smooth, or very weakly keeled, scales, 25?31 scales across the gular region, 18?20 femoral pores on each side of body (reaching the knee), 29?31 tuberculate lamellae under the fourth toe, 11?12 supraciliaries, 9?11 collars and a specific color pattern. The new subspecies meets all the morphological characters described by Eiselt et al. (1993) for an undefined and intermediate form between D. raddei raddei in the east of and D. r. vanensis in the west of the distribution range of the species.

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