A New Subspecies of Darevskia raddei(Boettger,1892)(Sauria:Lacertidae)from the West Azerbaijan Province,Iran  

作　　者：Rastegar-Pouyani NASRULLAH Karamiani RASOUL Oraei HAMZEH Khosrawani AZAR Rastegar-Pouyani ESKANDAR 

机构地区：[1]Department of Biology,Faculty of Science,Razi University [2]Department of Biology,Faculty of Science,Teacher Training University

出　　处：《Asian Herpetological Research》2011年第4期216-222,共7页亚洲两栖爬行动物研究（英文版）

摘　　要：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.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.

关 键 词：LACERTIDAE Darevskia raddei chaldoranensis new subspecies Zagros Mountains West Azerbaijan Iran 

分 类 号：Q959[生物学—动物学]