Darevskia

Darevskia defilippii

Taxonavigation

Taxonavigation: Lacertoidea
Superregnum: Eukaryota Cladus: Unikonta Cladus: Opisthokonta Cladus: Holozoa Regnum: Animalia Subregnum: Eumetazoa Cladus: ParaHoxozoa Cladus: Bilateria Cladus: Nephrozoa Superphylum: Deuterostomia Phylum: Chordata Cladus: Olfactores Subphylum: Vertebrata Infraphylum: Gnathostomata Megaclassis: Osteichthyes Cladus: Sarcopterygii Cladus: Rhipidistia Cladus: Tetrapodomorpha Cladus: Eotetrapodiformes Cladus: Elpistostegalia Superclassis: Tetrapoda Cladus: Reptiliomorpha Cladus: Amniota Cladus: Sauropsida Classis: Reptilia Cladus: Eureptilia Cladus: Romeriida Cladus: Diapsida Cladus: Neodiapsida Cladus: Sauria Cladus: Lepidosauromorpha Subclassis: Lepidosauria Ordo: Squamata Subordo: Lacertilia Superfamilia: Lacertoidea

Familia: Lacertidae
Subfamilia: Lacertinae
Tribus: Lacertini
Genus: Darevskia
Species (37): D. adjarica – D. aghasyani – D. alpina – D. armeniaca – D. arribasi – D. bendimahiensis – D. bithynica – D. brauneri – D. caspica – D. caucasica – D. chlorogaster – D. clarkorum – D. daghestanica – D. dahli – D. defilippii – D. derjugini – D. dryada – D. kamii – D. kopetdaghica – D. lindholmi – D. mixta – D. nairensis – D. parvula – D. portschinskii – D. praticola – D. raddei – D. rostombekovi – D. rudis – D. salihae – D. sapphirina – D. saxicola – D. schaekeli – D. steineri – D. szczerbaki – D. tuniyevi – D. unisexualis – D. uzzelli – D. valentini

Name

Darevskia Arribas, 1999: 17 [conserved name]

Type species: Lacerta saxicola Eversmann, 1834, by original designation.
Gender: feminine.
Etymology: named after Ilya Sergeevich Darevsky.
Placed on the Official List of Generic Names in Zoology by Opinion 2461 (2020: 135).

Synonymy

Darevskia Arribas, 1997: 305 [unavaliable name by Opinion 2461 (2020: 135)]
- Type species: Lacerta saxicola Eversmann, 1834, by original designation.
Caucasilacerta Harris, Arnold & Thomas, 1998: 1947 [nomen nudum fide Arribas (2016: 306) and Opinion 2461 (2020: 135)]
- Type species: Lacerta saxicola Eversmann, 1834, by original designation.
- Placed on the Official Index of Rejected and Invalid Generic Names in Zoology by Opinion 2461 (2020: 135).

References

Primary references

Arribas, O.J. 1997. Morfología, filogenia y biogeografía de las lagartijas de alta montaña de los Pirineos. Publications Universitat Autònoma Barcelona: Barcelona, Spain. 353 pp. Reference page.
Harris, D.J., Arnold, E.N. & Thomas, R.H. 1998. Relationships of lacertid lizards (Reptilia: Lacertidae) estimated from mitochondrial DNA sequences and morphology. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 265(1409): 1939–1948. DOI: 10.1098/rspb.1998.0524 Reference page.
Arribas, O.J. 1999. Phylogeny and relationships of the mountain lizards of Europe and Near East (Archaeolacerta Mertens, 1921, sensu lato) and their relationships among the Eurasian lacertid radiation. Russian Journal of Herpetology 6(1): 1–22. DOI: 10.30906/1026-2296-1999-6-1-1-22 [nonfunctional] Reference page.
International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature. 2020. Opinion 2461. (Case 3711) – Iberolacerta Arribas, 1999 and Darevskia Arribas, 1999 (Chordata, Squamata, Lacertidae): names confirmed as available. Bulletin of Zoological Nomenclature 77: 135–137. DOI: 10.21805/bzn.v77.a043 Reference page.

Additional references

Fu, J.-Z., Murphy, R.W. & Darevsky, I.S. 1997. Toward the phylogeny of Caucasian rock lizards: implications from mitochondrial DNA gene sequences (Reptilia: Lacertidae). Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 120(4): 463–477. DOI: 10.1111/j.1096-3642.1997.tb01283.x Reference page.
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. Abstract & excerpt. Reference page.
Kosushkin, S.A. & Grechko, V.V. 2013. Molecular genetic relationships and some issues of systematics of rock lizards of the genus Darevskia (Squamata: Lacertidae) based on locus analysis of SINE-type repeats (Squam1). Russian Journal of Genetics 49(8): 857–869. DOI: 10.7868/S0016675813070084 Reference page.
Ahmadzadeh, F., Flecks, M., Carretero, M.A., Mozaffari, O., Böhme, W., Harris, D.J., Freitas, S. & Rödder, D. 2013. Cryptic speciation patterns in Iranian rock lizards uncovered by integrative taxonomy. PLoS ONE 8(12): e80563. DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0080563 Reference page.
Arribas, O.J. 2016. Why Caucasilacerta Harris, Arnold et Thomas, 1998 is a nomen nudum? Russian Journal of Herpetology 23(4): 305–306. DOI: 10.30906/1026-2296-2016-23-4-305-306 [nonfunctional] Reference page.
Busack, S.D., Salvador, A., Bauer, A.M. & Kaiser, H. 2016. Darevskia and Iberolacerta (Reptilia, Lacertidae): Arribas, 1997 or 1999? The correct dating of two nomenclatural acts affecting Palearctic lizards, and validation of the name Caucasilacerta Harris, Arnold & Thomas, 1998. Bionomina 10: 61–73. DOI: 10.11646/bionomina.10.1.4 Reference page.
Arribas, O.J., Ananjeva, N.B., Carranza, S., Doronin, I.V., Harris, D.J., Orlov, N.L. & Orlova, V.F. 2017. The pernicious effect of retroactive changes in the Code: Darevskia and nomenclatorial stability, a reply to Busack et al. (2016). Basic and Applied Herpetology 31: 125-129. DOI: 10.11160/bah.75 Reference page.
Arribas, O., Ilgaz, Ç. & Kumlutaş, Y. 2018. Reevaluation of the intraspecific variability in Darevskia parvula (Lantz & Cyren, 1913): an integrated approach using morphology, osteology and genetics (Squamata: Lacertidae). Zootaxa 4472(1): 71–99. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4472.1.3 Reference page.
Arribas, O.J., Ananjeva, N.B., Carranza, S., Doronin, I.V., Orlov, N.L. & Orlova, V.F. 2018. Case 3711 – Iberolacerta Arribas and Darevskia Arribas (Chordata, Squamata, Lacertidae): proposals to deem these names available either from Arribas (1997) or from Arribas (1999). Bulletin of Zoological Nomenclature 75(1): 122–129. DOI: 10.21805/bzn.v75.a026 Reference page.
Tuniyev, B.S. & Petrova, T.V. 2019. A new lizard species of the genus Darevskia Arribas, 1997 from Southern Armenia. Proceedings of the Zoological Institute RAS 323(2): 136–148. DOI: 10.31610/trudyzin/2019.323.2.136 Reference page.
Arribas, O., Candan, K., Kurnaz, M., Kumlutaş, Y., Yıldırım Caynak, E. & Ilgaz, Ç. 2022. A new cryptic species of the Darevskia parvula group from NE Anatolia (Squamata, Lacertidae). Organisms Diversity & Evolution 22: 475–490. DOI: 10.1007/s13127-022-00540-4 Reference page.
Tuniyev, B.S., Petrova, T.V. & Lotiev, K.Y. 2023. A New Species of the Genus Darevskia Arribas, 1999 from South Ossetia (Reptilia: Sauria: Lacertidae). Russian Journal of Herpetology 30(4): 237–248. DOI: 10.30906/1026-2296-2023-30-4-237-248 Reference page.

Links

Uetz, P., Freed, P., Aguilar, P., Reyes, R., Kudera, F. & Hošek, J. (eds.) 2025. Darevskia . The Reptile Database. Accessed on 4 February 2025.

Vernacular names

Deutsch: Kaukasische Felseidechsen
English: Caucasian Rock Lizards

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