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Podarcis peloponnesiacus  (BIBRON & BORY, 1833)

Unterarten (3):

Podarcis peloponnesiacus peloponnesiacus  (BIBRON & BORY, 1833)

Podarcis peloponnesiacus lais  (BUCHHOLZ 1960)

Podarcis peloponnesiacus thais  (BUCHHOLZ, 1960)

Synonyme:

Lacerta peloponnesiaca  BIBRON & BORY, 1833

Podarcis peloponnesiaca  BISCHOFF & BISCHOFF, 1980

Podarcis peloponnesiacus  BÖHME & KÖHLER, 2005

Trivialnamen:

Peloponnese Wall Lizard (Englisch)
Peloponnes-Mauereidechse (Deutsch)
Γουστέρα της Πελοποννήσου (Griechisch)

Typen:

peloponnesiacus: Holotype: MNHN-RA 2706 (most likely holotype by monotypy)

lais: Holotype: ZFMK 12115 (59/300 in original description), paratypes in ZFMK, NMW, MM and MTD (= MTKD)

thais: Holotype: ZFMK 12261, paratypes in ZFMK, NMW and MTD

Terra Typica:

peloponnesiacus: Restricta (BUCHHOLZ 1960) Mistras bei Sparti (Peloponnes).

lais: Kalavrita (Nordwest-Peloponnes).

thais: Epidavros (Nordost-Peloponnes).

Relevante taxonomische Literatur:

• Bibron, M. & Bory de Saint-Vincent, J.B. (1833) -  Description of Podarcis peloponnesiacus and Algyroides moreoticus. -  In: Vertébrés a sang froid. Reptiles et poissons. Reptiles. Geoffroy & Geoffroy, Expédition Scientifique de Morée, Tome III. 1re partie, Zoologie: pp. 57-76.  

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• Mayer, W. (1986) -  Proteinelektrophoretische Untersuchungen zur subspezifischen Gliederung von Lacerta (Podarcis) peloponnesiaca. -  Bonner zoologische Beiträge, Bonn, 37: 123-129.  

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• Poulakakis, N. & Lymberakis, P. & Valakos, E. & Zouros, E. & Mylonas, M. (2005) -  Phylogenetic relationships and biogeography of Podarcis species from the Balkan Peninsula, by bayesian and maximum likelihood analyses of mitochondrial DNA sequences.  -  Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution, 37 (3): 845-857.    

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  Wall lizards of the genus Podarcis (Sauria, Lacertidae) comprise 17 currently recognized species in southern Europe, where they are the predominant nonavian reptile group. The taxonomy of Podarcis is complex and unstable. Based on DNA sequence data, the species of Podarcis falls into four main groups that have substantial geographic coherence (Western island group, southwestern group, Italian group, and Balkan Peninsula group). The Balkan Peninsula species are divided into two subgroups: the subgroup of P.taurica (P. taurica, P. milensis, P. gaigeae, and perhaps P. melisellensis), and the subgroup of P. erhardii (P. erhardii and P. pelo- ponnesiaca). In the present study, the question of phylogenetic relationships among the species of Podarcis encountered in the Balkan Peninsula was addressed using partial mtDNA sequences for cytochrome b (cyt b) and 16S rRNA (16S). The data support the mono- phyly of Podarcis and suggest that there are three phylogenetic clades: the clade A (P. taurica, P. gaigeae, P. milensis, and P. melisell- ensis); the clade B (P. erhardii and P. peloponnesiaca), and the clade C (P. muralis and P. sicula). By examining intraspeciWc relationships it was found that extant populations of P. erhardii are paraphyletic. Furthermore, subspecies previously deWned on the basis of morphological characteristics do not correspond to diVerent molecular phylogenetic clades, suggesting that their status should be reconsidered. The distinct geographic distribution of the major clades of the phylogenetic tree and its topology suggest a spatial and temporal sequence of phylogenetic separations that coincide with some major paleogeographic separations during the geological history of the Aegean Sea. The results stress the need for a reconsideration of the evolutionary history of Balkan Podarcis species and help overcome diYculties that classical taxonomy has encountered at both the species and subspecies level.

• Psonis, N. & Antoniou, A. & Kukushkin, O. & Jablonski, D. & Petrov, B. & Crnobrnja-Isailovic, J. & Sotiropoulos, K. & Gherghel, I. & Lymberakis, P. & Poulakakis, N. (2017) -  Hidden diversity in the Podarcis tauricus (Sauria, Lacertidae) species subgroup in the light of multilocus phylogeny and species delimitation. -  Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution, 106: 6-17.     

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  The monophyletic species subgroup of Podarcis tauricus is distributed in the western and southern parts of the Balkans, and includes four species with unresolved and unstudied inter- and intra-specific phylogenetic relationships. Using sequence data from two mitochondrial and three nuclear genes and applying several phylogenetic methods and species delimitation approaches to an extensive dataset, we have reconstructed the phylogeny of the Podarcis wall lizards in the Balkans, and re-investigated the taxonomic status of the P. tauricus species subgroup. Multilocus analyses revealed that the aforementioned subgroup consists of five major clades, with P. melisellensis as its most basal taxon. Monophyly of P. tauricus sensu stricto is not supported, with one of the subspecies (P. t. ionicus) displaying great genetic diversity (hidden diversity or cryptic species). It comprises five, geographically distinct, subclades with genetic distances on the species level. Species delimitation approaches revealed nine species within the P. tauricus species subgroup (P. melisellensis, P. gaigeae, P. milensis, and six in the P. tauricus complex), underlining the necessity of taxonomic re-evaluation. We thus synonymize some previously recognized subspecies in this subgroup, elevate P. t. tauricus and P. g. gaigeae to the species level and suggest a distinct Albanian-Greek clade, provisionally named as the P. ionicus species complex. The latter clade comprises five unconfirmed candidate species that call for comprehensive studies in the future.