Apathya Méhely, 1907

Šmíd, Jiří, Moravec, Jiří, Kodym, Petr, Kratochvíl, Lukáš, Yousefkhani, Seyyed Saeed Hosseinian, Rastegar-Pouyani, Eskandar & Frynta, Daniel, 2014, Annotated checklist and distribution of the lizards of Iran, Zootaxa 3855 (1), pp. 1-97 : 29

publication ID	https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.3855.1.1
publication LSID	lsid:zoobank.org:pub:0E2D2B7C-7A96-4CAB-87F2-87A785F88D7F
DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5493378
persistent identifier	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03C387F2-FF90-FFA5-FF5B-4A3555F2FA4F
treatment provided by	Felipe (2021-06-11 19:30:47, last updated by Guilherme 2025-01-02 16:29:43)
scientific name	Apathya Méhely, 1907
status

Treatment

This genus consists of only two species— A. cappadocica and A. yassujica . Recent phylogenetic study of the genus brought an evidence of exceptionally high level of intraspecific variation among populations (recognized as distinct subspecies) of A. cappadocica ( Kapli et al. 2013) . Even more interesting was the phylogenetic position of A. yassujica which was nested within A. cappadocica urmiana as a sister group to its Iranian populations and rendering A. cappadocica paraphyletic with respect to A. yassujica .

References

Kapli, P., Botoni, D., Ilgaz, C., Kumlutas, Y., Avci, A., Rastegar-Pouyani, N., Fathinia, B., Lymberakis, P., Ahmadzadeh, F. & Poulakakis, N. (2013) Molecular phylogeny and historical biogeography of the Anatolian lizard Apathya (Squamata, Lacertidae). Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution, 66, 992 - 1001. http: // dx. doi. org / 10.1016 / j. ympev. 2013.05.009

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Taxonomy

Kingdom	Animalia
Phylum	Chordata
Class	Reptilia
Order	Squamata
Family	Lacertidae

Specimens