Biology:Dwarf lizard

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Short description: Species of lizard

Dwarf lizard
Lizard vardenis.jpg
Scientific classification edit
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Reptilia
Order: Squamata
Family: Lacertidae
Genus: Parvilacerta
Species:
P. parva
Binomial name
Parvilacerta parva
(Boulenger, 1887)

The dwarf lizard (Parvilacerta parva) is a species of small lizard in the family Lacertidae. It is endemic to Anatolia and the south Caucasus.[1][2][3][4] In Armenia, where it is present only as thirty-one isolated populations, the species is critically endangered.[5]

References

  1. 1.0 1.1 Varol Tok, Ishmail Ugurtas, Murat Sevinç, Wolfgang Böhme, Pierre-André Crochet, Ferdi Akarsu (2009). "Parvilacerta parva". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2009: e.T164674A5917051. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2009.RLTS.T164674A5917051.en. https://www.iucnredlist.org/species/164674/5917051. Retrieved 18 November 2021. 
  2. Parvilacerta parva at the Reptarium.cz Reptile Database. Accessed 29 May 2019.
  3. Müller, Johannes (12 Apr 2002). "Skull osteology of Parvilacerta parva , a small-sized lacertid lizard from Asia Minor: Skull Osteology of Parvilacerta parva" (in en). Journal of Morphology 253 (1): 43–50. doi:10.1002/jmor.1111. https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/jmor.1111. 
  4. Kalayci, Tuğba ERGÜL; Uysal, İbrahim; Gul, Çiğdem; Özdemi̇r, Nurhayat (2020-03-01). "Body size and age structure of the Parvilacerta parva (Boulenger, 1887) population from Sivas, Turkey" (in en). Journal of the Institute of Science and Technology 10 (1): 39–44. doi:10.21597/jist.568428. ISSN 2536-4618. https://dergipark.org.tr/en/pub/jist/issue/52503/568428. 
  5. Fayvush, George (2023) (in en), Biodiversity of Armenia, Springer Nature, ISBN 978-3-031-34332-2, https://books.google.com/books?id=8i7WEAAAQBAJ&dq=%2522Parvilacerta+parva%2522&pg=PA315, retrieved 2023-10-22 

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