Darevskia raddei

Darevskia raddei, known commonly as the Azerbaijan lizard, is a species of lizard in the family Lacertidae. The species is endemic to Eurasia. There are four subspecies.

Darevskia raddei
Conservation status
Least Concern  (IUCN 3.1)[1]
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Reptilia
Order:	Squamata
Family:	Lacertidae
Genus:	Darevskia
Species:	D. raddei
Binomial name
Darevskia raddei (Boettger, 1892)

Etymology

The specific name, raddei, is in honor of German naturalist Gustav Radde.[2]

Geographic range

D. raddei is found in Armenia, Azerbaijan, Georgia, Iran, and Turkey.[3]

Habitat

D. raddei is found at altitudes of 600–2,500 m (2,000–8,200 ft) in a variety of habitats including forest, shrubland, grassland and rocky areas.[1]

Subspecies

Four subspecies are recognized as being valid, including the nominotypical subspecies.[3]

• Darevskia raddei chaldoranensis N. Rastegar-Pouyani, Karamiani, Oraei, Khosrawani & E. Rastegar-Pouyani, 2011
• Darevskia raddei nairensis (Darevsky, 1967)
• Darevskia raddei raddei (Boettger, 1892)
• Darevskia raddei vanensis (Eiselt, J.F. Schmidtler & Darevsky, 1993)

Nota bene: A trinomial authority in parentheses indicates that the subspecies was originally described in a genus other than Darevskia.

References

1. Tuniyev B, Ananjeva NB, Agasyan A, Orlov NL, Tuniyev S (2009). "Darevskia raddei (errata version published in 2017)". The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2009: e.T164753A114557658. https://doi.org/10.2305/IUCN.UK.2009.RLTS.T164753A5923254.en. Downloaded on 26 May 2019.
2. Beolens, Bo; Watkins, Michael; Grayson, Michael (2011). The Eponym Dictionary of Reptiles. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. xiii + 296 pp. ISBN 978-1-4214-0135-5. (Darevskia raddei, p. 215).
3. Darevskia raddei at the Reptarium.cz Reptile Database. Accessed 26 May 2019.

Further reading

• Boettger O (1892). "Kriechthiere der Kaukasusländer, gessamelt durch die Radde-Valentin'ische Expedition nach dem Karabagh und durch die Herren Dr. J. Valentin und P. Reibisch ". Bericht über die Senckenbergische Naturforschende Gesellschaft in Frankfurt am Main 1892: 131-150. (Lacerta muralis var. raddei, new variety, pp. 142-144). (in German and Latin).
• Grechko VV, Bannikova AA, Kosuchkin SA, Ryabinina NL, Milto KD, Darevsky IS, Kramerov DA (2007). "Molecular Genetic Diversification of the Lizard Complex Darevskia raddei (Sauria: Lacertidae): Early Stages of Speciation". Molecular Biology 41 (5): 764-775.