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of the real lizards, family Lacertidae
Population:
Podarcis pityusensis Escull de Tramuntana (pityusensis)
Synonyms:
Lacerta pityusensis pityusensis EISENTRAUT, 1930
Types:
Holotype: nonexistent
Terra Typica:
Escui de tremontaña.
Taxonomic notes:
EISENTRAUT (1930) released 24 specimens from Eivissa on Escull de Tramuntana. No lizards were observed on this island in 1979 and 1980 (SALVADOR 1984) as well as in 1962 and 1985 by MARTÍNEZ-RICA (CIRER 1987) and in 2013 by PÉREZ-MELLADO, who concluded that EISENTRAUT had failed here (ROMERO 2013).
Relevant taxonomic literature:
Eisentraut, M. (1930) -
Böhme, W. & Eisentraut, M. (1981) -
Es wird über einen 1930 angesetzten Versuch berichtet, bei dem auf einem bis dahin eidechsenfreien Felseiland (Dado Grande bei Ibiza, Pityusen) Männchen einer melanistischen und Weibchen einer grünen Inselpopulation von Podarcis pityusensis ausgesetzt wurden. Die Untersuchung von sechs fünf Jahre später gefangenen Tieren ergibt, dass die Vermischung zu erhöhter Variabilität und gesteigertem Größenwuchs geführt hat. Eine erneute Kontrolle dieses noch vorläufigen Ergebnisses wird angeregt.
Zawadzki, M. (2001) -
Survey of the present known occurrences of population exposures within the Ibiza wall lizard (Podarcis pityusensis Boscà,1883). Probably more often than it has been documented in the past, lizards are transported with the help of men to other islands or islets where either no lizards live or which are inhabited by different subspecies. Therefore the mixing of populations is possible and the genetic barrier is broken which leads to complications in the taxonomy of these species. In some cases unfortunately such transported lizards have probably been described as different subspecies. In the future taxonomic studies of this specie the possible precence of such transported lizards within various populations should be given more attention.
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Podarcis pityusensis Escull de Tramuntana: 12 references