Population:

Podarcis pityusensis Escull d’en Terra  (pityusensis)

Synonyms:

Lacerta pityusensis gastabiensis   EISENTRAUT, 1949

Podarcis pityusensis pityusensis   ZAWADZKI & VAN DEN BERG, 2017

Types:

Holotype in ZMB. coll. H. GRÜN, 20. IX. 1929.
Paratypes: ZBK 1152, 1153, 1156 and 1157 (ZAWADZKI & VAN DEN BERG 2017).

Terra Typica:

Isla Negretta, der Südspitze Ibizas zunächst gelegen (EISENTRAUT 1949).
Escull d’en Terra (ZAWADZKI & VAN DEN BERG 2017).

Taxonomic notes:

If you take EISENTRAUT’s (1949) terra typica literally, than this concerns Escull d’en Terra.

Relevant taxonomic literature:

• Eisentraut, M. (1949) -  Die Eidechsen der spanischen Mittelmeerinseln und ihre Rassenaufspaltung im Lichte der Evolution. -  Mitteilungen aus dem Zoologischen Museum in Berlin, 26: 5-225.  

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• Zawadzki, M. & Berg, M.van den (2017) -  Über die Entdeckung einer neuen Inselpopulation der Pityuseneidechse, Podarcis pityusensis (BOSCÁ, 1883) auf dem Escull d’en Terra (Spanien, Ibiza). -  Die Eidechse, Magdeburg/Hamburg, 28 (3): 83-93.  

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  We report on the discovery of a new population of the Pityusic lizard Podarcis pityusensis (Boscá, 1883) from the small island Escull d`en Terra at the southern tip of Ibiza. During two visits on the 11th and 12th April 2017 four lizards (two males and two females) were caught and examined. A total of four males, six females and two juvenile lizards was counted, which is likely to have covered nearly the entire population. Thus, the Escull d´en Terra hosts one of the smallest populations of Podarcis pityusensis. The lizards of the island are similar in appearance to the animals of Ibiza, which is the reason why we consider them as belonging to the nominate subspecies P. p. pityusensis.