New locality record of Lacerta agilis (Squamata: Lacertidae) in Turkey

Yıl 2019, Cilt: 2 Sayı: 2, 52 - 56, 30.09.2019

Ufuk Bülbül , Halime Koç , Hatice Özkan İhsan Öztürk Bilal Kutrup

https://doi.org/10.38059/biodiversity.596298

Cited By: 1

Öz

In this study, it was given the locality record of the sand lizard (Lacerta agilis) from Yeşilköy Village, Pazar District of Rize
Province of Turkey. This new record revealed the second locality for L. agilis from the eastern Black Sea
coast of Anatolia. The metric and meristic features of the adult, subadult and
juvenile specimens were compared to the features of the specimens of the
species, L. agilis in the literature.

Anahtar Kelimeler

Sand lizard , pholidosis , morphometric , Pazar , Rize

Lacerta agilis (Squamata: Lacertidae)’in Türkiye’deki yeni lokalite kaydı

Öz

Bu çalışmada, Kars kertenkelesi (Lacerta agilis)’in Türkiye’de Rize ilinin Pazar ilçesinin Yeşilköy
köyünden lokalite kaydı verilmiştir. Bu yeni kayıt L. agilis türünün Anadolu’nun Doğu Karadeniz kısmındaki ikinci
lokalite kaydını oluşturmaktadır. Ergin, yarı ergin ve juvenile bireylerin
metric ve meristic özellikleri literatürde L.
agilis türünün bireylerinin özellikleriyle karşılaştırılmıştır.

Anahtar Kelimeler

Kars kertenkelesi , folidosis , morfometrik , Pazar , Rize

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