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Issue: Vol. 5004 No. 1: 19 Jul. 2021
Type: Article
Published: 2021-07-19
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5004.1.8
Page range: 181-192
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Phenotypic variation in Heremites vittatus (Olivier, 1804) (Sauria: Scincidae) from Iran and Turkey

Department of Biology, Faculty of Science, Razi University, 6714967346 Kermanshah, Iran
Department of Biology, Faculty of Science, Dokuz Eylül University, 35390, Buca, Ýzmir, Turkey; Dokuz Eylül University, Research and Application Center For Fauna Flora, 35390, Buca, Ýzmir, Turkey
Department of Biology, Faculty of Science and Arts, Adnan Menderes University, 09010, Aydýn, Turkey
Department of Biology, Faculty of Science, Dokuz Eylül University, 35390, Buca, Ýzmir, Turkey
Department of Biology, Faculty of Science, Dokuz Eylül University, 35390, Buca, Ýzmir, Turkey
Department of Biology, Faculty of Science, Razi University, 6714967346 Kermanshah, Iran
Department of Animal Science, School of Biology, Damghan University, Damghan, Iran; Institute of Biological Science, School of Biology, Damghan University, Damghan, Iran
Heremites vittatus Morphological characters Systematics Distribution Iran Turkey Reptilia

Abstract

According to a large morphological dataset of specimens from Turkey to Iran and based on several morphological analyses, the Iranian populations of the skink Heremites vittatus are separated from other populations of this taxon in Turkey. The values of most of morphological characters were higher in the Turkish populations. Morphological variation among populations of H. vittatus (Olivier, 1804) from Turkey and the western slopes of the Zagros Mountains in Kermanshah province in Iran may be the result of different dispersal and vicariance events. Comparison the current study dataset with specimens from Egypt can definite the taxonomic status of Iranian and Turkish populations.

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