| Lacerta monticola cyreni MÜLLER & HELLMICH, 1937 Iberolacerta (Iberolacerta) cyreni ARRIBAS, 1997 Iberolacerta cyreni MAYER & ARRIBAS, 2003 |
| cyreni: Neotype: MNCN 39934, male, designed by Óscar Arribas 2010; Holotype originally in ZSM 2329a (lost)
castiliana: Holotype: IPE (CSIC, given as CA 86071819, collection of author, to be transferred to CSIC), Male, Laguna Grande, Circo de Gredos, Sierra de Gredos. 18-7-1986. O. ARRIBAS & J. GARCU leg.; paratype: NMW |
| cyreni: Type locality: Puerto de Navacerrada, Sierra da Guadarrama, central Spain; Lectotype locality: Entre el Puerto de Cotos y Puerto de Navacerrada, La Granja de San Ildefonso, Segovia, Spain.
castiliana: Type locality: Laguna Grande, Sierra de Gredos, central Spain. |
Müller, L. & Hellmich, W. (1937) - Mitteilungen über die Herpetofauna der Iberischen Halbinsel. II. Zur Kenntnis des Lacerta monticola. - Zoologischer Anzeiger, Leipzig, 117: 65-73.  Mayer, W. & Arribas, O.J. (1996) - Allozyme differentiation and relationship among the Iberian-Pyrenean Mountain lizards (Squamata: Sauria: Lacertidae). - Herpetozoa, Wien, 9 (1/2): 57-61.  × Six nominal taxa (`Lacerta` monticola cantabrica, `L. ` monücola monticola, `L. ` aranica, `L. ` aurelioi, `L. ` bonnali, `L. ` cyreni) of the Iberian-Pyrenean Mountain Lizards were investigated by allozyme electropho-
resis with regard to IS enzymatic loci. `L. ` horvathi was used as an outgroup for phylogenetic analysis. On the basts of our results - which are in perfect agreement with karyological data (ODIERNA & al. in press a, b) - five taxa can be distinguished (`£.`. monticola, `L`. aranica, `L`. aurelioi, `L`. bonnali, %`. cyreni)
which we consider to be species. Mayer, W. & Arribas, O. (2003) - Phylogenetic relationships of the European lacertid genera Archaeolacerta and Iberolacerta and their relartionships to some other ´Archaeolacertae´ (sensu lato) from Near East, derived from mitochondrial DNA sequences. - Journal of Zoological Systematics and Evolutionary Research, Berlin, 41 (3): 157-161. × Parts of the mitochondrial genes coding for 12SrRNA and 16SrRNA (together about 960 bp) were sequenced for all Mediterranean species of `Mountain lizards` of the genera Archaeolacerta (sensu lato) and Iberolacerta. All subspecies of the Iberian species Iberolacerta cyreni and I. monticola were included in this study. In addition, samples of Apathya cappadocica and Darevskia rudis were analysed to elucidate the relationships of the European `Mountain lizards` to their possible relatives in the Near East. Maximum parsimony and neighbour joining analyses lead to the following major conclusions: (i) the monophyly of the genus Iberolacerta is very well supported; (ii) Archaeolacerta bedriagae (the type species of the genus) is most basal with respect to the ingroup taxa. If we accept Iberolacerta as a genus, Archaeolacerta becames paraphyletic. Therefore, we propose to restrict Archaeolacerta to the type species and to treat A. mosorensis and A. oxycephala provisionally as members of the collective genus Lacerta; (iii) within the genus Iberolacerta three groups were found: a Pyrenean group, an Iberian group and I. horvathi. The relationships among these groups remain unresolved; and (iv) the Peña de Francia lizards, described originally as a subspecies of I. cyreni, are in fact more closely related to I. monticola. Arribas, O.J. (2010) - Intraspecific variability of the Carpetane Lizard (Iberolacerta cyreni [Müller & Hellmich, 1937]) (Squamata: Lacertidae), with special reference to the unstudied peripheral populations from the Sierras de Avila (Paramera, Serrota and Villafranca). - Bonn zoological Bulletin, Bonn, 57 (2): 197-210. × Canonical Discriminant (CDA), ANOVA and ANOSIM analyses were calculated for all recen tly known distribution areas of Iberolacerta cyreni including severtal small and unstudied peripheral populations. The monly differentiated sample is Guadarrama (the nominate subspecies), with very limited overlap in the CDA (correct classification > 70%) and different from nearly all the other samples in ANOSIM. Guadarrama is a recently differentiated but well diagnosable (morpho) subspecies (with lower values of dorsalia, ventralia and greater values of circumanalia). Despite the mtDNA differences of the Béjar specimens, their morphology is largely equivalent to that of I. Cyreni castiliana (Gredos), but clearly differ in their female body elongation (near 1 cm) with shorter limnbs, a possible strategy to increase clutch size. Populations from the Sierras de Avila (Villafranca, Serrota and Paramera) are very similar among them. Villafranca (in males) together with Béjar (in females) are the most connected samples in MST, and the root of the species differentiation from a morphological point of view, once discarded geographical and climatic influence on morphology. All populations except Guadarrama shall be considered as I. c. castiliana by their morphological identity with gredos. These morphological similarities probably are the reflect of extensive gene flow among them, responsible of maintaining their morphology largely euqivalent.
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