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of the real lizards, family Lacertidae
Subspecies:
Darevskia valentini
Types:
Lectotype (designated by Darevsky & Eiselt 1967): GNM 2459, female.
Terra Typica:
Erciyes Dað, ca. 1900 asl.” [Erciyes (= Erdschias) Dagh in Kayseri, Central Anatolia, Turkey].
Taxonomic notes:
Etymology: Named after the French herpetologist Louis A. Lantz (1886–1953) and the Swedish herpetologist Carl A. O. Cyrén (1878–1946), who made a significant contribution to the taxonomy of the Caucasian lizards.
Relevant taxonomic literature:
Darevsky, I.S. & Eiselt, J. (1967) -
Eiselt, J. & Darevsky, I.S. & Schmidtler, J.F. (1992) -
Series of newly collected specimens of Lacerta valentini BOETTGER in Eastern Turkey were closely investigated in order to demarcate the areas of the subspecies L. v. valentini and L. v. lantzicyreni. Intermediary populations were found to exist between them, one was described as a new subspecies, Lacerta valentini spitzenbergerae, living in the Cilo-Dag Mountains, Vilayet Hakkâri, Turk