Mesalina bernoullii (Schenkel, 1901) Jiří Šmíd & Jiří Moravec & Václav Gvoždík & Jan Štundl & Daniel Frynta & Petros Lymberakis & Paschalia Kapli & Thomas Wilms & Andreas Schmitz & Mohammed Shobrak & Saeed Hosseinian Yousefkhani & Eskandar Rastegar-Pouyani & Aurora M. Castilla & Johannes Els & Werner Mayer, 2017
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https://doi.org/ 10.1111/zsc.12254 |
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https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5698046 |
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https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03C5EA23-AE42-FFB7-54C2-FA76A4E66AAA |
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Mesalina bernoullii (Schenkel, 1901) |
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comb. nov. |
Mesalina bernoullii (Schenkel, 1901) comb. nov.
Eremias bernoullii – Schenkel (1901)
Eremias brevirostris – Boulenger (1887)
Eremias brevirostris forma typica – Angel (1936)
Eremias brevirostris fieldi – Haas & Werner (1969). Holotype MCZ 56617. Type locality Mahor Birinji , Khuzestan Province, Iran. MorphoBank pictures: M407313–M407317.
Mesalina brevirostris – Szczerbak (1989)
Mesalina brevirostris brevirostris – Szczerbak (1989)
Holotype. NMB 4396 View Materials . Type locality: ‘ Palmyra’ ( Syria). MorphoBank pictures: M407230– M407235.
Distribution. Sinai, Jordan, Syria, Iraq, southwestern Iran, Kuwait, northeastern Saudi Arabia ( Fig. 1 View Figure S ).
Notes. Mesalina bernoullii represents a morphologically very variable species ( Table S5 View Table S ). Several geographically isolated morphotypes that differ considerably in body size and scalation can be found within its large range. For example, Haas and Werner (1969) assigned a subspecific status ( Eremias brevirostris fieldi ) to the population from southwestern Iran characterized by low numbers of dorsal and gular scales and subdigital lamellae and Moravec (2004) described a morphotype from Jabal al Arab, southern Syria, that has unusually high numbers of scales of the same characters. Nevertheless, our results did not show any correlation between this morphological and phylogenetic clustering.
The material analyzed in this study included specimens from the type locality of Eremias bernoullii Schenkel, 1901 corresponding morphologically to the holotype of this taxon. It also included a specimen from ca. 40 km of the type locality of E. brevirostris fieldi Haas and Werner, 1969 corresponding morphologically to this form, as well as individuals representing the Jabal al Arab morphotype. Based on the results of the phylogenetic and morphological analyses we conclude that the name Eremias brevirostris fieldi Haas and Werner, 1969 is a junior subjective synonym of Eremias bernoullii Schenkel, 1901 .
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Museum of Comparative Zoology |
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Mesalina bernoullii (Schenkel, 1901)
Jiří Šmíd, Jiří Moravec, Václav Gvoždík, Jan Štundl, Daniel Frynta, Petros Lymberakis, Paschalia Kapli, Thomas Wilms, Andreas Schmitz, Mohammed Shobrak, Saeed Hosseinian Yousefkhani, Eskandar Rastegar-Pouyani, Aurora M. Castilla, Johannes Els & Werner Mayer 2017 |
Mesalina brevirostris
Jiří Šmíd & Jiří Moravec & Václav Gvoždík & Jan Štundl & Daniel Frynta & Petros Lymberakis & Paschalia Kapli & Thomas Wilms & Andreas Schmitz & Mohammed Shobrak & Saeed Hosseinian Yousefkhani & Eskandar Rastegar-Pouyani & Aurora M. Castilla & Johannes Els & Werner Mayer 2017 |
Eremias brevirostris fieldi
Haas & Werner 1969 |
Eremias bernoullii
Schenkel 1901 |