Theoretical and field studies suggest that inferior competitors may be able to avoid costly agonistic interactions, although the mechanisms involved are poorly understood in lizards. The “Dear enemy recognition” theory proposes that higher tolerance among familiar than among unfamiliar conspecifics may reduce costly interactions. Male lizards Lacerta monticola are able to discriminate between f...

This study was carried out to determine the fish fauna of Kuzgun Dam Lake dranaige. Eight (Barbus lacerta, Capoeta damascina, Alburnus sellal, Alburnoides velioglui, Squalius semae, Oxynoemacheilus araxensis, O. bergianus and Salmo euphrataeus) species belonging 4 families (Cyprinidae, Leuciscidae, Nemachelidae Salmonidae) were determined.

Thirty specimens of sand lizard, Lacerta agilis, were analyzed and Ophionyssus saurarum was found on three of them. These parasitic mites were located in the ear opening of the host. The only lizard specimens which were infested were those that inhabit areas degraded by human activity.

The green lizards of the genus Lacerta (Sauria, Lacertidae) comprise nine recognized species, which in Europe are mainly restricted to the southern peninsulas. Four of them (L. trilineata, L. viridis, L. bilineata and L. agilis) occur in Greece. The uncertainty of morphological diversification renders the taxonomic assignment into species and subspecies problematic. In this study sequence data ...

Yapılan çalışmada, Türkiye’nin Konya iline bağlı Akşehir ve civarından toplanmış olan Çanakkale Onsekiz Mart Üniversitesi ZDEU-ÇOMÜ Koleksiyonu’nda bulunan örnekler kullanılmıştır. Lacertidae familyasına ait üç türden toplamda 30 birey (Lacerta trilineata 5♂♂, 5 juvenil; Ophisops elegans 5♀♀; Parvilacerta parva 5♀♀) değerlendirilmiştir. Örneklerden alınan falanj, femur humerus kemiklerinde iske...

The lacertid lizard Lacerta vivipara is one of the few squamate species with two reproductive modes. We present the intraspecific phylogeny obtained from neighbor-joining and maximum-parsimony analyses of the mtDNA cytochrome b sequences for 15 individuals from Slovenian oviparous populations, 34 individuals from western oviparous populations of southern France and northern Spain, 92 specimens ...