New locality records of Eumeces schneideri (Daudin, 1802) (Sauria: Scincidae) from western Anatolia, Turkey
Articles > Letter · 2015
Authors: Kerim ÇİÇEK, Oguzkan Cumhurıyet, Yusuf BAYRAKCI, Dinçer AYAZ
TURKISH JOURNAL OF ZOOLOGY, Journal Indexed in SCI Expanded, International, 2015, vol 39, pp 987-990
DOI: 10.3906/zoo-1410-5
Summary
In this study, we report 2 new close localities for Eumeces schneideri from Aydin, western Anatolia, Turkey. The specimens were examined morphologically and compared with the relevant literature. These new localities have filled in the gap in the species' distribution range in western Anatolia, Turkey. According to the morphological results, the female specimens resembled E. s. barani in terms of the scales along the dorsal midline. However, the color-pattern characteristics of the specimens were found to be somewhere between E. s. barani and E. s. princeps; thus, the specimens were accepted as E. s. cf. barani.