MORPHOLOGICAL REEVALUATION ON THE SUBSPECIFIC POSITION OF <i>Darevskia derjugini</i> IN TURKEY

Kurnaz M., BÜLBÜL U., Eroglu A. I., Koc H., KUTRUP B.

RUSSIAN JOURNAL OF HERPETOLOGY, sa.3, ss.209-216, 2017 (SCI-Expanded) identifier identifier

  • Yayın Türü: Makale / Tam Makale
  • Basım Tarihi: 2017
  • Dergi Adı: RUSSIAN JOURNAL OF HERPETOLOGY
  • Derginin Tarandığı İndeksler: Science Citation Index Expanded (SCI-EXPANDED), Scopus
  • Sayfa Sayıları: ss.209-216
  • Karadeniz Teknik Üniversitesi Adresli: Evet

Özet

In this study, we present new morphological comparison between Darevskia derjugini derjugini and Darevskia derjugini barani in Turkish populations. Totally 55 specimens (21 for D. d. derjugini and 34 for D. d. barani) were used for the comparisons. Independent T-Test results indicated that the morphological characters used in discrimination of the two subspecies were not different in the specimens. The results of canonical discriminant analyses did not exhibit sufficiently distinction between two subspecies because many individuals overlapped between the D. d. derjugini and D. d. barani populations for both meristic and metric characters. In conclusion, we decided that only nominate subspecies, Darevskia derjugini derjugini live in Turkey