Some Aspects of Reproductive Biology of Zootoca vivipara (Jacquin, 1787) in the Asian Part of Its Area
Some Aspects of Reproductive Biology of Zootoca vivipara (Jacquin, 1787) in the Asian Part of Its Area
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亚洲部分胎生动物生殖生物学的某些方面(Jacquin,1787)
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2005
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N. Bulakhova
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Valentina F Orlova;V. N. Kuranova;N. Bulakhova
Zootoca vivipara is the lacertid lizard with a large area in the northern part of Eurasia. This species is the only lacertid that has both oviparous and viviparous populations. Oviparous allopatric populations were found in the extreme south-western part of the species area, in the Pyrenean mountains, in Aquitaine in southwest France, and in northwest Spain (Lantz, 1927; Brana and Bea, 1987; Heulin, 1988). Recently the same populations were described from Slovenia, Lower Austria (Carinthia), and Italy (Bohme et al., 1999; Heulin et al., 2000; Mayer et al., 2000). Ovoviviparous populations have a vast distribution from Central France, the British Isles to the North Cape in Scandinavia, eastwards as far as eastern Siberia, Sakhalin Island and Hokkaido Island, Japan (Ananjeva et al., 1998). Thus, most part of the area is on territory of the former USSR, where there occur only ovoviviparous populations. In spite of this the biology of viviparous lizards, including reproductive characteristics, is insufficiently studied, especially in the eastern part of the area (Orlova, 1975; Sedalishchev and Belimov, 1978; Kuranova, 1983, 1998; Korotkov and Levinskaja, 1978; Korotkov, 1985; Tagirova, 1997; Dujsebaeva and Orlova, 2002). In the western part of the area, the biology of Z. vivipara is known in detail (see references in: Dely and Bohme, 1984; Heulin, 1985, 1988; Khodadoost et al., 1987; Pilorge, 1987; etc.).