Podarcis raffonei (Mertens, 1952)

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49 Podarcis raffonei - Taxonomic status according to Capula (1994b). The genetic distance found between P. raffonei and P. waglerianus is relatively small for Podarcis species (Podnar & Mayer, 2005; Senczuk et al., 2019). Depending on the markers used the divergence between raffonei and waglerianus is not that different than for other sister species of Podarcis (e.g. lilfordi and pityusensis, tauricus and ionicus) (Salvi et al., 2021). The validity of the subspecies raffonei (Mertens 1952) , alvearioi (Mertens 1955), cucchiarai Di Palma 1980 and antoninoi (Mertens 1955) is not supported by genetic data (Capula, 2004).