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Cyrtopodion caspius(Eichwald,
1831)
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sbsp. caspius
(Eichwald, 1831)
- Photo
Chromosome number: 2n= 40 (Stepanyan, 2002); 2n= 42
(Kuprianova, 1982; Manilo, 1998)
- Distribution in Armenia:
- Altitudes: 375-1300 m a.s.l.
- Administrative regions: Araks basin:
S-Syunik (possibly introduced), Yerevan (Introduced), Armavir (Introduced).
- Habitats: Buildings and ruins as well as rocklands
covered by phryganoid vegetation in arid temperate zone.
- Global distribution:
- Asia: Armenia, Georgia, Azerbaijan, N/E
Iran, NW Afghanstan, Islands of the Caspian Sea, Kazakhstan, Turkmenistan,
Uzbekistan.
- Known trend: Not objective data available (presumably
"developing sporadic introduced taxon").
- Referneces:
- Ananjeva,
N.B., Orlov N.L., Khalikov R.G., Darevsky, I.S., Rjabov S.A., Barabanov
A.V., 2004. Atlas of Reptiles of Northern Eurasia,
"Ivan Fedorov" Print, St. Pererbourg, Russia, 230 pp.
- Aslanyan A.V., 2004. An Ecologo-Faunistic
Analysis of The Lizards of Armenia. PhD candidate thesys. 172 pp.
- Chernov S.A.,
1939. [Herpetological
Fauna of Armenian SSR and Nakhichevan ASSR] // Zoological Papers, Vol
I, (Transactions of Biological Institure, Vol. III). Edition of Armenian
Brunch of The USSR Academy of Scienecs, Erevan, 1939, pp. 77-194. (In
Russian)
- Darevsky I.S.,
1957. The Fauna
of Reptiles of Armenia and Its Zoogeographical Analysis. PhD Thesis,
Yerevan, 468 pp.
-
Stepanyan I.E., 2002, Study on
Systematic Relationsheep Among Some Reptiles of Armenia./ Thesys of
The Doctor of Biology, Institute of Zoology, National Academy of Sciences
of Republic of Armenia, Yerevan, 26 pp.
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