taxonID	type	description	language	source
3C7C162A193F5104A549D78D7906D5DB.taxon	diagnosis	Diagnosis. A large Pseudopus (up to 610 mm snout-vent length, 1,367 mm total length and a mass of 1,100 g) that can be distinguished from the other two subspecies by a combination of the following characters (means followed by standard deviations; Table 4): (1) preanal scales (PAN) 10; (2) long body (SVL; 490.22 mm + / - 76.15); (3) long tail (TL; 600.70 mm + / - 107.04); (4) long head (HL 1; from the ear aperture to the tip of the snout, 47.6 mm + / - 7.99); pileus length (PL; mean 41.98 mm + / - 6.78); and distance from the frontal shield to the tip of the snout (FSL; 17.27 mm + / - 2.96); (5) wide head (HW 1; maximum width, 32.04 mm + / - 6.34); and width at the level of the posterior edge of the eyes orbits (HW 2; 28.21 mm + / - 4.95); (6) relatively long limb rudiments (RL; 5.55 mm + / - 1.53) (see and Tables 3 and 4 for comparisons to P. a. apodus and P. a. thracius).	en	Jablonski, Daniel, Ribeiro-Junior, Marco Antonio, Meiri, Shai, Maza, Erez, Kukushkin, Oleg V., Chirikova, Marina, Pirosova, Angelika, Jelic, Dusan, Mikulicek, Peter, Jandzik, David (2021): Morphological and genetic differentiation in the anguid lizard Pseudopus apodus supports the existence of an endemic subspecies in the Levant. Vertebrate Zoology 71: 175-200, DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/vz.71.e60800, URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/vz.71.e60800
3C7C162A193F5104A549D78D7906D5DB.taxon	etymology	Etymology. No name is available for the glass lizards from the Levantine region. We hence suggest a new name, Pseudopus apodus levantinus, as a reference to the isolated and allopatric distribution of this subspecies exclusively in the Levant region. This region covers present-day (western) Syria, Lebanon, (north-western) Jordan, Israel, West Bank, Cyprus, and most of Turkey south-east of the middle Euphrates, which is almost identical to the known distribution range of the new subspecies. The term " Levant " is derived from the Italian " Levante ", meaning " rising " and implying the rising of the Sun in the east as an equivalent to the Arabic " al-Mashriq " (المشـرق) and the Hebrew " Mizra ḥ " (( מ ִ ז ְ ר ָ חboth meaning " east ".	en	Jablonski, Daniel, Ribeiro-Junior, Marco Antonio, Meiri, Shai, Maza, Erez, Kukushkin, Oleg V., Chirikova, Marina, Pirosova, Angelika, Jelic, Dusan, Mikulicek, Peter, Jandzik, David (2021): Morphological and genetic differentiation in the anguid lizard Pseudopus apodus supports the existence of an endemic subspecies in the Levant. Vertebrate Zoology 71: 175-200, DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/vz.71.e60800, URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/vz.71.e60800
