Darevskia rostombekowi is a species of lizard in the family Lacertidae. The species is endemic to Transcaucasia.
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Reptilia |
| Order: | Squamata |
| Family: | Lacertidae |
| Genus: | Darevskia |
| Species: | D. rostombekowi
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| Darevskia rostombekowi (Darevsky, 1957)
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Etymology
editThe specific name, rostombekowi, is in honor of Georgian biologist V. N. Rostombekov.[3]
Geographic range
editD. rostombekowi is found in Armenia and Azerbaijan.[2]
Habitat
editThe preferred habitats of D. rostombekowi are rocky areas and shrubland, at altitudes of 600–1,700 m (2,000–5,600 ft).[1]
Reproduction
editD. rostombekowi is oviparous and parthenogenetic.[2]
References
edit- ^ a b Agasyan A, Ananjeva NB (2009). " Darevskia rostombekowi (errata version published in 2017)". The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2009: e.T164563A114536228. https://dx.doi.org/10.2305/IUCN.UK.2009.RLTS.T164563A5908109.en. Downloaded on 24 January 2020.
- ^ a b c Darevskia rostombekowi at the Reptarium.cz Reptile Database. Accessed 25 May 2019.
- ^ 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 rostombekowi, p. 227).
Further reading
edit- Darevsky IS (1957). "СИСТЕМАТИКА И ЭКОЛОГИЯ СКАЛЪНЪІХ ЯЩЕРИЦ LACERTA SAXICOLA EVERSMANN, РАСПРОСТРАНЕННЪІХ В АРМЕНИИ [=Systematics and ecology of rock lizards, Lacerta saxicola Eversmann, in Armenia]". [Zoologicheskii Sbornik, Akademiya Nauk Armyanskoi SSR ] 10: 27-57. (Lacerta saxicola rostombekowi, new subspecies, p. 35). (in Russian, with an abstract in Armenian).
- Sindaco R, Jeremčenko VK (2008). The Reptiles of the Western Palearctic. 1. Annotated Checklist and Distributional Atlas of the Turtles, Crocodiles, Amphisbaenians and Lizards of Europe, North Africa, Middle East and Central Asia. (Monographs of the Societas Herpetologica Italica). Latina, Italy: Edizioni Belvedere. 580 pp. ISBN 978-88-89504-14-7.
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