| systematics of the podarcis hispanicus complex (sauria, lacertidae) iii: valid nomina of the western and central iberian forms. | recent genetic works have suggested that the iberian wall lizard podarcis hispanicus (steindachner, 1870) sensu lato is a species complex. several forms have already been elevated to species rank and linked to available nomina, but at least three still have to be formally named, including the western iberian forms currently designated as podarcis hispanicus "type 1a", "type 1b" and "type 2". the aim of the present work is to assign a valid nomen to these taxa. using multivariate analyses, we fir ... | 2014 | 24870311 |
| assessing the reliability of thermography to infer internal body temperatures of lizards. | for many years lizard thermal ecology studies have relied on the use of contact thermometry to obtain internal body temperature (tb) of the animals. however, with progressing technology, an interest grew in using new, less invasive methods, such as infrared (ir) pyrometry and thermography, to infer tbof reptiles. nonetheless few studies have tested the reliability of these new tools. the present study tested the use of ir cameras as a non-invasive tool to infer tbof lizards, using three differen ... | 2016 | 27839556 |