NEW LOCALITY RECORDS FOR Eumeces schneiderii (Daudin, 1802) AND Trapelus ruderatus (Olivier, 1804) WITH THE MORPHOLOGICAL DATA FROM EASTERN ANATOLIA, TURKEY

Year 2021, Volume: 30 Issue: 1, 47 - 57, 30.06.2021

Mehmet Kürşat Şahin , Muammer Kurnaz

https://doi.org/10.53447/communc.817740

Abstract

In this study, we report new locality records for Eumeces schneiderii and Trapelus ruderatus from Malatya, Eastern Anatolia. As the new locality is about 60 km north of the known distribution area for E. schneiderii from Malatya and T. ruderatus is the first record for this province. A summary of metric and meristic characteristics was with color-pattern features was given for these specimens. Moreover, the explored locality’s importance for the species biogeography via Anatolian diagonal was emphasized.

Keywords

distribution, Eumeces schniderii, Trapelus ruderatus, reptilia

Thanks

We would like to thank to Bülent Karadağ, Turan Karaoğlan and Yavuz Alhan on behalf of Allıturna Nature Conservation and Photography Community for their hospitality in Malatya field surveys.

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