Western Georgia and southern Russia (west and central Caucasus and Black Sea coast). 

Species:

Darevskia brauneri  (MÉHELY, 1909)

Subspecies (2):

Darevskia brauneri brauneri  (MÉHELY, 1909)

Darevskia brauneri myusserica  DORONIN, 2011

Synonyms:

Lacerta (Darevskia) brauneri   SINDACO & JEREMENKO, 2008

Lacerta saxicola brauneri   NIKOLSKY, 1913

Lacerta saxicola darevskii   SZCZERBAK,1962

Lacerta (Zootoca) saxicola brauneri   BISCHOFF & ENGELSMAN, 1976

Lacerta (Apathya) saxicola brauneri   BISCHOFF, 1991

Darevskia brauneri   MACCULLOCH et al, 2000

Darevskia saxicola   BAKRADZE & CHKHiIKVADZE, 2001

Lacerta saxicola Var. Brauneri  MÉHELY, 1909

Common names:

Brauner’s Rock Lizard (English)
Ящерица Браунера (Russian)

Types:

brauneri: Lectotype: ZISP 16352 (designated by DORONIN 2012, Fig. 5)
Holotype: NMNH Re 1 (Fig. 9), original label «7.VI.1961. st. Hojoh, 50 km south of Maikop. Leg. Szczerbak» [Russian Federation, Republic of Adygea, Maikop Region, Kamennomostsky Village, 44°17 ́N 40°11 ́E] (Fig. 10) [darevskii]

myusserica: Holotype: ZISP 25964, Republic Abkhazia, Gudauta District, Pitsunda-Myussersky Reserve, the coastal cliff at 1.5 km south-east of the Lidzava (= Ldzaa) Village, 43°9 ́N 40°25 ́E, 17 July 2010. Coll.: I.V. DORONIN, M.A. DORONINA

Terra Typica:

brauneri: Lectotype locality: Original Label «Krasnaya Polyana [No] 760 [1] 905» [= Russian Federation, Krasnodar Territory, Adler District, Krasnaya Polyana, 43° 40 ́N 40°12 ́E] (Lantz & Cyrén 1936)

myusserica: Type locality: Lidzava in Abkhazia (Republic of Georgia)


Relevant taxonomic literature:

  • Méhely, L. (1909) -  Materialien zu einer Systematik und Phylogenie der Muralis-ähnlichen Lacerten. -  Annales historico-naturales Musei nationalis hungarici, Budapest, 7: 409-621  

  • Doronin, I.V. & Tuniyev, B.S. & Kukushkin, O.V. (2013) -  Differentiation and taxonomy of the rock lizards Darevskia (saxicola) complex (Sauria: Lacertidae) according to morphological and molecular analyses. -  Proceedings of the Zoological Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences, St. Petersburg, 317 (1): 54-84.  

    И.В. Доронин, Б.С. Туниев и О.В. Кукушкин (2013) -  Дифференциация и систематика скальных ящериц комплекса Darevskia (Saxicola) (Sauria: Lacertidae) по данным морфологического и молекулярного анализов. -  Труды Зоологического института РАН, 317 (1): 54-84.    

 
 
 
 

Darevskia brauneri: 117  pictures (see subspecies level)

 
 
 

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