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Taxonomy of
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The taxonomy of the genus
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Eremiadini (e.g.,
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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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;
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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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For future taxonomic work on
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,
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it is important to note that
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is not any of Arnolds (1980, 1986c) undescribed south Arabian species (
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sp. A from the mountains of Yemen and Saudi Arabia and
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. sp. B from Dhofar, Oman). Its presence was not recorded until the material for recent phylogenetic studies (
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; this study) had become available. Further effort should be dedicated to obtaining genetic data from the two supposedly new species mentioned by
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,
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) 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 &amp; Poggesi, 1975)" authorityName="Lanza &amp; Poggesi" authorityYear="1975" baseAuthorityName="Lanza &amp; 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 &amp; Poggesi, 1975)
</taxonomicName>
. Such data may shed new light on the evolutionary history and hopefully help to untangle relationships within some of the other
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<emphasis box="[1168,1263,932,956]" italics="true" pageId="12" pageNumber="13">Mesalina</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
species complexes.
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