The species identity and biogeography of Blanus (Amphisbaenia: Blanidae) in Lebanon

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dc.contributor.authorJablonski, Daniel
dc.contributor.authorSadek, Riyad A.
dc.contributor.departmentDepartment of Biology
dc.contributor.facultyFaculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS)
dc.contributor.institutionAmerican University of Beirut
dc.date.accessioned2025-01-24T11:20:48Z
dc.date.available2025-01-24T11:20:48Z
dc.date.issued2019
dc.description.abstractThe genus Blanus Wagler, 1830 represents limbless, burrowing reptiles of the family Blanidae with disjunct circum-Mediterranean distribution. The recently described species Blanus alexandri Sindaco, Kornilios, Sacchi & Lymberakis, 2014 is known from south-eastern Turkey with a presumed occurrence in the Levant and Iraq. We provide here records from Lebanon and confirm the affiliation of Lebanese populations to this species by mitochondrial and nuclear DNA. Blanus alexandri comprises at least seven deeply evolved phylogenetic clades with up to 11% of uncorrected p-distances in their mitochondrial DNA. This suggests a probably older than the Miocene origin of some of these clades. Populations from Lebanon form a different clade with a genetic diversity that is close to populations from southern Turkey. © 2019, © 2019 Taylor & Francis.
dc.identifier.doihttps://doi.org/10.1080/09397140.2019.1604471
dc.identifier.eid2-s2.0-85064642536
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10938/25139
dc.language.isoen
dc.publisherTaylor and Francis Ltd.
dc.relation.ispartofZoology in the Middle East
dc.sourceScopus
dc.subjectCryptic diversity
dc.subjectEastern mediterranean
dc.subjectLevant
dc.subjectMorphology
dc.subjectPhylogeography
dc.subjectTaxonomy
dc.subjectIraq
dc.subjectLebanon
dc.subjectMediterranean region
dc.subjectMediterranean sea
dc.subjectMediterranean sea (east)
dc.subjectTurkey
dc.subjectAmphisbaenia
dc.subjectBlanus
dc.subjectReptilia
dc.subjectBiogeography
dc.subjectBurrowing organism
dc.subjectGenetic variation
dc.subjectGeographical distribution
dc.subjectMiocene
dc.subjectMitochondrial dna
dc.subjectPhylogenetics
dc.subjectReptile
dc.titleThe species identity and biogeography of Blanus (Amphisbaenia: Blanidae) in Lebanon
dc.typeArticle

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