The Herpetofauna of Adana Province (Turkey)

Abstract

Abstract:In this study, it is aimed to determine the amphibians and reptiles species of Adana province. This study was conducted in September and October 2013 and February, March, May, April, and June 2014. As a results of the study, 4 anuran species belonging to three families, 2 urodelian species belonging to one family, 6 tortoise species belonging to five families, 16 lizards species belonging to 6 families, one worm lizard, 19 snakes species belonging to 4 families, with a total of 48 different species of amphibians and reptiles, showing distribution in Adana, were identified. However, the species of Neurergus strauchii, Pelobates syriacus, Anatololacerta pelasgiana, Darevskia valentini, Eirenis decemlineatus, E. eiselti, E. lineomaculatus, Rhynchocalamus melanocephalus, which were recorded in the literature previously, could not be found. With the field survey and literature records, 56 amphibian and reptile species belonging to 21 families were determined in Adana province. In addition, chorotype information of the species and distribution localities in Adana were given in detail.

Cytotoxic Activities of the Crude Venoms of Macrovipera lebetina lebetina from Cyprus and M. l. obtusa from Turkey (Serpentes: Viperidae) on Human Umbilical Vein Endothelial Cells

“…According to the latest accepted systematics, M. l. obtusa (Dwigubski, 1832) subspecies has a distribution in Anatolia whereas nominate taxon, M. l. lebetina (Linnaeus, 1758) occurs in Cyprus (Mallow, Ludwig, & Nilson, 2003). This species is distributed in southern, southeastern, eastern, and northeastern Anatolia in Turkey, (Mallow et al, 2003;Budak & Göçmen, 2008;Sarıkaya, Yıldız, & Sezen, 2017).…”

Snakes of Şanlıurfa Province

“…Bu nedenle Türkiye sayısız yerli ve yabancı bilim insanının ilgi odağı olmuştur (Werner, 1902;Bird, 1936;Bodenheimer, 1944;Eiselt, 1965;Clark & Clark, 1973;Başoğlu & Baran, 1977, 1980Baran, Kumlutaş, Ilgaz, Türkozan, & Avcı, 2004). Son yıllarda artan bölgesel herpetofauna çalışmaları, Anadolu'nun herpetofaunasının hala tam olarak ortaya çıkarılmadığını göstermektedir (Ünsal, 2005;Göçmen et al, 2007;Hür, Uğurtaş, & İşbilir, 2008;Göçmen, Franzen, Yıldız, Akman, & Yalçınkaya, 2009;Afsar & Tok, 2011;Göçmen, İğci, Akman, & Oğuz, 2013;Göçmen et al, 2014;Cihan & Tok, 2014;Tok & Çiçek, 2014;Özcan & Üzüm, 2014;İğci, Göçmen, Akman, Demirsoy, & Oğuz, 2015;Avcı, Ilgaz, Bozkurt, Üzüm, & Olgun, 2015;Yıldız, İğci, Akman, Bulum, & Göçmen, 2015;Akman et al, 2016;Kumlutaş, Ilgaz, & Yakar, 2017;Sarıkaya, Yıldız, & Sezen, 2017;Eksilmez, Altunışık, & Özdemir, 2017;Bozkurt, 2018;Avcı, Üzüm, Bozkurt, & Olgun, 2018;Akman et al, 2018;Yıldız, Sarıkaya, & Bozkurt, 2019;Akman, Çakmak, & Yıldız, 2020).…”

“…Ülkemizde şimdiki bilgilerimize göre 31 kurbağa ve 137 sürüngen türü yaşamaktadır (Sarıkaya et al, 2017). Çeşitli çalışmalardan elde edilen verilere göre Şanlıurfa ilinde 6 kurbağa ve 51 sürüngen türünün yaşadığı bilinmektedir (Clark & Clark, 1973;Başoğlu & Baran, 1977, 1980Mulder, 1995;Baran & Atatür, 1998;Sindaco, Venchi, Carpaneto, & Bologna, 2000;Uğurtaş, Yıldırım, Sevinç, 2007;Budak & Göçmen, 2008;Yıldız, İğci, Parmaksız, & Göçmen, 2013a).…”

New locality record of Ablepharus budaki (Squamata: Scincidae) in Turkey

“…Previous studies related to A. budaki were mainly performed on the locality records and herpetological observations [Muğla province (Schmidtler, 1997;Tiedemann & Grillitsch, 1999;Kumlutaş et al, 2015), Antalya province: (Schmidtler, 1997;Budak et al, 1998;Franzen & Glaw, 2007;Kumlutaş et al, 2011;Kucharzewski, 2015), Mersin province (Schmidtler, 1997;Tiedemann & Grillitsch, 1999;Franzen & Glaw, 2007;Kucharzewski, 2015), Adana province (Schmidtler, 1997;Tiedemann & Grillitsch, 1999;Sarıkaya et al, 2017), Hatay province: (Schmidtler, 1997), Kilis province (Schmidtler, 1997) and Kahramanmaraş province (Schmidtler, 1997)].…”