Laudakia stellio, (LINNAEUS, 1758) S. S.

Karameta, Emmanouela, Lymberakis, Petros, Grillitsch, Heinz, Ilgaz, Çetin, Avci, Aziz, Kumlutaş, Yusuf, Candan, Kamil, Wagner, Philipp, Sfenthourakis, Spyros, Pafilis, Panayiotis & Poulakakis, Nikos, 2022, The story of a rock-star: multilocus phylogeny and species delimitation in the starred or roughtail rock agama, Laudakia stellio (Reptilia: Agamidae), Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 195 (1), pp. 195-219 : 212

LAUDAKIA STELLIO (LINNAEUS, 1758) S.S.

Included taxa: Laudakia s. stellio (Linnaeus, 1758) , L. s. daani ( Beutler & Frör, 1980) and the subclades from the western Taurus, Symi–Kaş, Anatolia, Lebanon and Hatay, as shown in this study ( Figs 2 , 4 ).

Type specimen: Laudakia stellio stellio (Linnaeus, 1758) , ZFMK 2063 (neotype), Crochet et al. (2006) ( Zoologisches Forschungsmuseum Alexander Koenig , Bonn, Germany) .

Type locality: Delos Island , Cyclades, Greece .

Distribution: All localities from Greece (Cyclades, Crete, Thessaloniki, Corfu and East Aegean islands) and Turkey, north-western Syria and northern Lebanon.

Remarks: According to the principle of priority of the ICZN, this distinct genetic lineage should be named stellio because that is the oldest available name. It includes already described morphological subspecies and other cryptic lineages of Clade 2, revealed by this study: the nominal L. s. stellio and its sister Anatolia subclade, L. s. daani and its sister W Taurus–Symi–Kaş subclades, as well as the Lebanon and Hatay subclades. The subspecific status of L. s. stellio and L. s. daani is retained, while the elevation of the Lebanon and Hatay lineages to the subspecies level is under preparation.

Figures

Figure 2. Phylogenetic tree based on mtDNA (ND4-tRNAs and 16S rRNA). Bayesian posterior probabilities (PP) and maximum likelihood bootstrap support (bs) values are represented in the form PP/bs above or beside nodes. (Agama spp. contains Agama agama, A. boensis, A. bottega, A. boueti, A. boulengeri, A. impalearis, A. planices, A. sankaranica and A. spinosa).

Figure 4. Phylogenetic tree based on the concatenated dataset (mtDNA & nuDNA). Bayesian posterior probabilities (PP) and maximum likelihood bootstrap support (bs) values are represented in the form PP/bs above or beside nodes. (Agama spp. contains Agama agama, A. boensis, A. bottega, A. boueti, A. boulengeri, A. impalearis, A. planices, A. sankaranica and A. spinosa).