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The taxonomy of the genus
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). The last species were described in 2002 (
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by
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; and
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by
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). The taxonomic adjustments recommended herein emphasise how the diversity of a relatively well-known species may actually be underestimated.
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described here from western Arabia contributes to the intensively growing knowledge on the evolution and systematics of the pan-Arabian reptile fauna within the last years (
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; de
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<bibRefCitation author="de Pous, P. & Machado, L. & Metallinou, M. & Cervenka, J. & Kratochvil, L. & Paschou, N. & Carranza, S." box="[1195,1385,239,263]" journalOrPublisher="Journal of Zoological Systematics and Evolutionary Research" pageId="12" pageNumber="13" pagination="67 - 81" part="54" refString="de Pous, P., Machado, L., Metallinou, M., Cervenka, J., Kratochvil, L., Paschou, N., … Carranza, S. (2016). Taxonomy and biogeography of Bunopus spatalurus (Reptilia; Gekkonidae) from the Arabian Peninsula. Journal of Zoological Systematics and Evolutionary Research, 54, 67 - 81." title="Taxonomy and biogeography of Bunopus spatalurus (Reptilia; Gekkonidae) from the Arabian Peninsula" type="journal article" year="2016">Pous et al., 2016</bibRefCitation>
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<bibRefCitation author="Tamar, K & Scholz, S. & Crochet, P. - A. & Geniez, P. & Meiri, S. & Schmitz, A. & Carranza, S." box="[1132,1417,343,367]" journalOrPublisher="Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution" pageId="12" pageNumber="13" pagination="55 - 68" part="97" refString="Tamar, K., Scholz, S., Crochet, P. - A., Geniez, P., Meiri, S., Schmitz, A., … Carranza, S. (2016). Evolution around the Red Sea: Systematics and biogeography of the agamid genus Pseudotrapelus (Squamata: Agamidae) from North Africa and Arabia. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution, 97, 55 - 68." title="Evolution around the Red Sea: Systematics and biogeography of the agamid genus Pseudotrapelus (Squamata: Agamidae) from North Africa and Arabia" type="journal article" year="2016">Tamar, Scholz, et al., 2016</bibRefCitation>
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). As some of the studies show, cryptic and previously unrecognised species are present along the western Arabian mountains, and more species descriptions from there may thus be expected.
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<paragraph blockId="12.[816,1464,135,957]" pageId="12" pageNumber="13">
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For future taxonomic work on
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<emphasis box="[1176,1278,481,505]" italics="true" pageId="12" pageNumber="13">
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<taxonomicName authorityName="Gray" authorityYear="1838" box="[1176,1274,481,505]" class="Reptilia" family="Lacertidae" genus="Mesalina" kingdom="Animalia" order="Squamata" pageId="12" pageNumber="13" phylum="Chordata" rank="genus">Mesalina</taxonomicName>
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,
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</emphasis>
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it is important to note that
|
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<taxonomicName authority="Jiří Šmíd & Jiří Moravec & Václav Gvoždík & Jan Štundl & Daniel Frynta & Petros Lymberakis & Paschalia Kapli & Thomas Wilms & Andreas Schmitz & Mohammed Shobrak & Saeed Hosseinian Yousefkhani & Eskandar Rastegar-Pouyani & Aurora M. Castilla & Johannes Els & Werner Mayer, 2017" authorityName="Jiří Šmíd & Jiří Moravec & Václav Gvoždík & Jan Štundl & Daniel Frynta & Petros Lymberakis & Paschalia Kapli & Thomas Wilms & Andreas Schmitz & Mohammed Shobrak & Saeed Hosseinian Yousefkhani & Eskandar Rastegar-Pouyani & Aurora M. Castilla & Johannes Els & Werner Mayer" authorityYear="2017" box="[915,1083,516,540]" class="Reptilia" family="Lacertidae" genus="Mesalina" kingdom="Animalia" order="Squamata" pageId="12" pageNumber="13" phylum="Chordata" rank="species" species="saudiarabica" status="sp. n.">
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||
<emphasis box="[915,1083,516,540]" italics="true" pageId="12" pageNumber="13">M. saudiarabica</emphasis>
|
||
</taxonomicName>
|
||
<taxonomicNameLabel box="[1092,1149,517,540]" pageId="12" pageNumber="13" rank="species">sp. n.</taxonomicNameLabel>
|
||
is not any of Arnold’s (1980, 1986c) undescribed south Arabian species (
|
||
<taxonomicName authorityName="Gray" authorityYear="1838" box="[1295,1390,551,575]" class="Reptilia" family="Lacertidae" genus="Mesalina" kingdom="Animalia" order="Squamata" pageId="12" pageNumber="13" phylum="Chordata" rank="genus">
|
||
<emphasis box="[1295,1390,551,575]" italics="true" pageId="12" pageNumber="13">Mesalina</emphasis>
|
||
</taxonomicName>
|
||
sp. A from the mountains of Yemen and Saudi Arabia and
|
||
<emphasis box="[1373,1395,586,609]" italics="true" pageId="12" pageNumber="13">M</emphasis>
|
||
. sp. B from Dhofar, Oman). Its presence was not recorded until the material for recent phylogenetic studies (
|
||
<bibRefCitation author="Kapli, P & Lymberakis, P. & Crochet, P. A. & Geniez, P. & Brito, J. C. & Almutairi, M. & Poulakakis, N." box="[1234,1415,655,679]" journalOrPublisher="Journal of Biogeography" pageId="12" pageNumber="13" pagination="267 - 279" part="42" refString="Kapli, P., Lymberakis, P., Crochet, P. A., Geniez, P., Brito, J. C., Almutairi, M., … Poulakakis, N. (2015). Historical biogeography of the lacertid lizard Mesalina in north Africa and the Middle East. Journal of Biogeography, 42, 267 - 279." title="Historical biogeography of the lacertid lizard Mesalina in north Africa and the Middle East" type="journal article" year="2015">Kapli et al., 2015</bibRefCitation>
|
||
; this study) had become available. Further effort should be dedicated to obtaining genetic data from the two supposedly new species mentioned by
|
||
<bibRefCitation author="Arnold, E. N." box="[959,1099,759,784]" journalOrPublisher="Journal of Oman Studies, Special Report" pageId="12" pageNumber="13" pagination="273 - 332" part="2" refString="Arnold, E. N. (1980). The reptiles and amphibians of Dhofar, southern Arabia. Journal of Oman Studies, Special Report, 2, 273 - 332." title="The reptiles and amphibians of Dhofar, southern Arabia" type="journal article" year="1980">Arnold (1980</bibRefCitation>
|
||
,
|
||
<bibRefCitation author="Arnold, E. N." box="[1108,1172,759,783]" journalOrPublisher="Biological Journal of the Linnean Society" pageId="12" pageNumber="13" pagination="263 - 281" part="29" refString="Arnold, E. N. (1986 c). Why copulatory organs provide so many useful taxonomic characters: The origin and maintenance of hemipenial differences in lacertid lizards (Reptilia: Lacertidae). Biological Journal of the Linnean Society, 29, 263 - 281." title="Why copulatory organs provide so many useful taxonomic characters: The origin and maintenance of hemipenial differences in lacertid lizards (Reptilia: Lacertidae)" type="journal article" year="1986" yearSuffix="c">1986c</bibRefCitation>
|
||
) as well as from two narrowranging species that have not yet been analysed genetically and placed in a phylogenetic framework,
|
||
<taxonomicName authorityName="Arnold" authorityYear="1980" box="[1209,1344,829,852]" class="Reptilia" family="Lacertidae" genus="Mesalina" kingdom="Animalia" order="Squamata" pageId="12" pageNumber="13" phylum="Chordata" rank="species" species="ayunensis">
|
||
<emphasis box="[1209,1344,829,852]" italics="true" pageId="12" pageNumber="13">M. ayunensis</emphasis>
|
||
</taxonomicName>
|
||
and
|
||
<taxonomicName authority="(Lanza & Poggesi, 1975)" authorityName="Lanza & Poggesi" authorityYear="1975" baseAuthorityName="Lanza & Poggesi" baseAuthorityYear="1975" class="Reptilia" family="Lacertidae" genus="Mesalina" kingdom="Animalia" order="Squamata" pageId="12" pageNumber="13" phylum="Chordata" rank="species" species="ercolinii">
|
||
<emphasis italics="true" pageId="12" pageNumber="13">M. ercolinii</emphasis>
|
||
(Lanza & Poggesi, 1975)
|
||
</taxonomicName>
|
||
. Such data may shed new light on the evolutionary history and hopefully help to untangle relationships within some of the other
|
||
<taxonomicName authorityName="Gray" authorityYear="1838" box="[1168,1263,932,956]" class="Reptilia" family="Lacertidae" genus="Mesalina" kingdom="Animalia" order="Squamata" pageId="12" pageNumber="13" phylum="Chordata" rank="genus">
|
||
<emphasis box="[1168,1263,932,956]" italics="true" pageId="12" pageNumber="13">Mesalina</emphasis>
|
||
</taxonomicName>
|
||
species complexes.
|
||
</paragraph>
|
||
</subSubSection>
|
||
</treatment>
|
||
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