Morphological and ecological divergence in two populations of European glass lizard, <italic>Pseudopus apodus</italic> (Squamata: Anguidae)

Artificial incubation and mold treatment of European Glass Lizard (Pseudopus apodus) eggs in a home-made incubator

“…T he European Glass Lizard (Pseudopus apodus) is a limbless anguid that ranges from the Balkan and Crimean Peninsulas and Ciscaucasia in Europe through Asia Minor and into the Middle East (Telenchev et al 2014;Glavaš et al 2020), where it inhabits a wide range of habitats ranging from rocky slopes with dense vegetation to forest floors, grasslands, and shrubby vegetation, often near streams (Nasrabadi et al 2018;Kamali 2021). Although listed as being of Least Concern (LC) on the IUCN Red List (Aghasyan et al 2021), the species has experienced some anthropogenic disturbances in its habitats such as, urbanization, farming, and logging, as well as climate change during the past years (Nasrabadi et al 2018).…”

The easternmost record of the largest anguine lizard that has ever lived – Pseudopus pannonicus (Squamata, Anguidae): new fossils from the late Neogene of Eastern Europe

“…Today, Pseudopus is represented only by a single extant species Pseudopus apodus. Populations of this species are considered to pertain to three sub-species: Pseudopus apodus thracius Obst, 1978 from the western-most part of the geographic range of the species (i.e., coastal Croatia, Greece, Northwestern Anatolia), Pseudopus apodus apodus Pallas, 1775 from Asia Minor and Central Asia, and Pseudopus apodus levantinus Jablonski, Ribeiro-Junior, Meiri, Maza, Mikulíček & Jandzik, 2021 from the Levant (Jandzik et al 2018;Glavaš et al 2020;Jablonski et al 2021). The genus Pseudopus is also known in the fossil record by a plethora of upper Cenozoic remains from localities all across Europe (Klembara 1981;Klembara and Rummel 2018).…”