Italy (near Trieste), Croatian coast, including many offshore islands, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Montenegro and northwestern Albania. 

Species:

melisellensis  (BRAUN, 1877)

Subspecies (2):

melisellensis melisellensis  (BRAUN, 1877)

melisellensis fiumanus  (WERNER, 1891)

melisellensis ssp. 

Synonyms:

Lacerta melisellensis  BRAUN, 1877

Podarcis melisellensis  HENLE, 1985

Common names:

Dalmatian Wall Lizard (English)
Adriatische Mauereidechse (German)

Types:

melisellensis: Holotype: unlocated

fiumanus: Syntypes: BMNH 1946.9.3.83-85

Terra Typica:

melisellensis: Brusnik island in the Vis archipelago.

fiumanus: Rijeka, NW Croatia.


Relevant taxonomic literature:

  • Braun, M. (1877) -  Description of Podarcis m. melisellensis. In: “Lacerta lilfordi und Lacerta muralis”. -  Arbeiten aus dem Zoologisch-zootomischen Institut in Würzburg, 4 (1): 1-66.  

  • Podnar, M. & Mayer, W. & Tvrftkovic, N. (2004) -  Mitochondrial phylogeography of the Dalmatian wall lizard, Podarcis melisellensis (Lacertidae). -  Organisms, Diversity & Evolution, 4: 307-317.    

  • Huyghe, K. & Vanhooydonck, B. & Herrel, A. & Tadic, Z. & Van Damme, R. (2007) -  Morphology, performance, behavior and ecology of threee color morphs in males of the lizard Podarcis melisellensis. -  Integrative and Comparative Biology, 47 (2): 211-220.    

  • Podnar, M. & Madaric, B.B. & Mayer, W. (2013) -  Non-concordant phylogeographical patterns of three widely codistributed endemic Western Balkan lacertid lizards (Reptilia, Lacertidae) shaped by specific habitat requirements and different responses to Pleistocene climatic oscillations. -  Journal of Zoological Systematics and Evolutionary Research, Berlin, 52 (2): 119–129.    

  • Psonis, N. & Antoniou, A. & Kukushkin, O. & Jablonski, D. & Petrov, B. & Crnobrnja-Isailovic, J. & Sotiropoulos, K. & Gherghel, I. & Lymberakis, P. & Poulakakis, N. (2017) -  Hidden diversity in the Podarcis tauricus (Sauria, Lacertidae) species subgroup in the light of multilocus phylogeny and species delimitation. -  Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution, 106: 6-17.     

  • Psonis, N. & Antoniou, A. & Karameta, E. & Leaché, A.D. & Kotsakiozi, P. & Darriba, D. & Kozlov, A. & Stamatakis, A. & Poursanidis, D. & Kukushkin, O. & Jablonski, D. & Crnobrnja–Isailović, J. & Gherghel, I. & Lymberakis, P. & Poulakakis, N. (2018) -  Resolving complex phylogeographic patterns in the Balkan Peninsula using closely related wall-lizard species as a model system. -  Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution, 125: 100-115.    

 
 
 
 

melisellensis: 189  pictures (see subspecies level)

 
 
 

Podarcis melisellensis fiumanus  © 2021 Andreas Möller