Female life‐history characteristics of the Mosor rock lizard,Dinarolacerta mosorensis(Kolombatović, 1886) from Montenegro (Squamata: Lacertidae)

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Variation of Reproductive Traits and Female Body Size in the Most Widely-Ranging Terrestrial Reptile: Testing the Effects of Reproductive Mode, Lineage, and Climate

“…6Mean hatchling mass and mean body length of reproducing females in different populations of Zootoca vivipara and other European species of the family Lacertidae. Data for Z. vivipara are from “Appendix”; data for other species are from: Arribas and Galán (2005), Castilla and Bauwens (2000), Galán (1999), Galán and Vicente (2003), Ji and Braña (2000), Ljubisavljević et al (2007, 2012), Rúa and Galán (2003)…”

Sexual dimorphism of skull shape in a lacertid lizard species (Podarcis spp., Dalmatolacerta sp., Dinarolacerta sp.) revealed by geometric morphometrics

“…Skulls were taken only from specimens larger than the minimum adult size, which had been determined previously for the same populations of all species (Bejaković et al, 1995(Bejaković et al, , 1996aLjubisavljević et al, 2007). For the purpose of this study, the skulls of D. mosorensis and P. melisellensis were cleared with trypsin and potassium hydroxide (KOH), stained with Alizarin Red S to better distinguish cranial elements and their articulations (Dingerkus and Uhler, 1977) and preserved in glycerol.…”

“…Population samples of P. muralis (Malo Starčevo Island, Skadar Lake, Montenegro; N = 19 males and 19 females), P. melisellensis (Mali Moračnik Island, Skadar Lake, Montenegro; N = 18 males and 19 females), D. oxycephala (Beška Velja Island, Skadar Lake, Montenegro; N = 19 males and 18 females) and D. mosorensis (Lovćen Mt., Montenegro: N = 20 males and 20 females) were obtained from a restricted area of Montenegro (for descriptions of species and localities see Bejaković et al, 1996a;Ljubisavljević et al, 2007). Specimens used in this study were initially collected for use in other studies and were deposited in the Herpetological Collections of the Institute for Biological Research "Siniša Stanković," Belgrade (P. muralis, P. melisellensis, D. oxycephala) and in the Museum of Natural History of Montenegro (D. mosorensis).…”

“…The analysed species belong to three different genera whose phylogenetic relationships are largely unresolved (Pavlicev and Mayer, 2009). Although all four analysed species belong to the phylogenetically and morphologically relatively homogeneous group of lacertid lizards (Arnold et al, 2007), they differ in body shape (the dorsoventrally flattened morphotypes of D. oxycephala and D. mosorensis versus the cylindric, deep-headed morphotypes of the Podarcis species), microhabitat use (saxicolous Dinarolacerta and Dalmatolacerta occupying the "vertical" microhabitats versus more generalistic Podarcis species occupying the terrestrial, vegetated "horizontal" microhabitats, Aleksić et al, 2009) and life-history traits (see Bejaković et al, 1995Bejaković et al, , 1996aLjubisavljević et al, 2007). P. melisellensis and D. oxycephala have been documented to be food generalists with largely overlapping prey size, habitat ranges, and diets that match the abundance of prey in the environment (Verwaijen et al, 2002).…”

Reptiles in Serbia: Distribution and diversity patterns

“…Because the Eastern-Mediterranean reptiles, such as Algyroides nigropunctatus and Mediodactylus kotschyi, also occur in the Metohija region (along the Drim River valley and close to the border with Albania - Džukić & Pasuljević 1979, Ajtić & Tomović 2001, we suppose that Hierophis gemonensis could also be found in this region. And finally, Dinarolacerta montenegrina (endemic to the Prokletije Mountain Massif) has been recorded at two localities in Montenegro (Ljubisavljević et al 2007(Ljubisavljević et al , 2014b, as well as at one locality in Albania (Petrov 2006, Podnar et al 2014. Large portion of the Prokletije Massif lies in the bordering area of the western Metohija, hence this species could also be expected in the suitable habitats at this massif (Džukić et al 1997).…”