Hacettepe University Faculty of Science Department of Biology Department of Zoolology Faculty Member Mehmet Kürşat Şahin, Artvin’s Yusufeli district discovered the species of the lizard of his mother Saliha’s name by giving the name “Darevskia Salihae” under the name of the literature.
Sahin, who worked on reptile and amphibious creatures for many years, told AA correspondent about the new type of lizard and scientific research they discovered during the land investigations in Kaçkar Mountains.
Yusufeli district of the Valley of the Barhal Valley has an interesting sunshine dynamics, while conducting studies to examine this in the field of a new type of lizard, describing Sahin, the first time to see the patterns of the lizard, he said.
Sahin, “I was very excited to realize that a new species. he said.
“Genetically distant from other lizards”
Sahin, where the sunbathing time of the Barhal Valley, where the discovery was made is quite short compared to other valleys, said that these original ecological conditions limit the living area of the species.
Other lizard types prefer different parts of the valley, while the discovered new species sunbathed only in a small area Sahin, “Discovered lizard we have only 150 meters of rock block of 5-6 meters in a rock height, ie a 750 to 900 square meter in an area of about 750 to 900 square meters. he said.
“It is quite difficult to explore a new type in reptiles”
Sahin, the lizard analyzes both morphological and genetic -based analyzes and found that they have found that they are quite different from the living species in the world.
Following the discovery of the lizard, Sahin said that they should identify a name taxonomic and etymologically for the species and continued his words as follows:
“We thought to give the name of the Barhal Valley, which was the first place. However, it was very difficult for me at that time, I lost my mother because of a disease. After burning my mother in Trabzon, my friend Assoc.
