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Il sindaco-avvocato e l'antimafia
No full textL'articolo esamina il caso dello scioglimento di un consiglio comunale per infiltraizoni della criminalità organizzata di tipo mafioso, con particolare riferimento al motivo di scioglimento determinato dalla situazione del sindaco, avvocato di imputati in processi di camorra
Hemidactylus inintellectus Sindaco, Ziliani, Razzetti, Pupin, Grieco 2009
No full textHemidactylus inintellectus Sindaco, Ziliani, Razzetti, Pupin, Grieco, 2009 Hemidactylus inintellectus Sindaco et al. 2009: 86 —Locus typicus: “ Yemen, Socotra Island, Wadi Ayhaft (12 ° 36 ’ 47 ”N – 53 ° 57 ’ 52 ”E), about m 200 a.s.l.”. Hemidactylus granti. — Schätti and Desvoignes, 1999: 108 –109, fig. 30. Hemidactylus aff. turcicus.— Rösler & Wranik, 2000 a: 24, tab. 1. [Hemidactylus] turcicus -like.—Rösler & Wranik (in Wranik 2003: 133). Hemidactylus sp.—Rösler & Wranik (in Wranik 2003: pl. 74 up). Hemidactylus sp. B.— Rösler & Wranik, 2004: 518, pl. 5, fig. 20. Hemidactylus sp. B.— Rösler & Wranik, 2006 a: 127, tab. 1. Hemidactylus granti. —Sindaco et al., 2008: tab. 1. This taxon was observed and/or collected by several authors (Schätti & Desvoignes, 1999; Rösler & Wranik 2003, 2004, 2006 a) but always confused with other taxa or, until two years ago, just suspected to be a new species without any formal description (see Sindaco et al., 2009). Original data. Fig. 11. NE Coast, Homhil, Momi plateau, Firmihin, Dheroh, Central Noged, Neet, Shu'ab inland, Qeysoh, Qalansiyah, Wadi Ayhaft, Kadheb E. Habitat. This species is a nocturnal rock dwelling gecko. Individuals were observed usually climbing on cliffs, deep crevices, large boulders, tree trunks (including palms and occasionally Adenium or Dracaena), generally on limestone rocks, but also on granite. Recorded from near sea level up to 762 m a.s.l. (North of Derhoh). Bibliographic data. This species was reported by some authors (under different names: see synonymy) for a few localities in the central and eastern part of the island. General distribution. Endemic to Socotra Island.Published as part of Razzetti, Edoardo, Sindaco, Roberto, Grieco, Cristina, Pella, Francesca, Ziliani, Ugo, Pupin, Fabio, Riservato, Elisa, Pellitteri-Rosa, Daniele, Butikofer, Luca, Suleiman, Ahmed Saeed & Al-Aseily, Badar Awadh, 2011, Annotated checklist and distribution of the Socotran Archipelago Herpetofauna (Reptilia), pp. 1-44 in Zootaxa 2826 on pages 8-9, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.27727
Alberto Zavatti, sindaco della ricostruzione
No full textIl volume propone la prima biografia di Alberto Zavatti (1915-70), comunista, antifascista e sindaco di Senigallia in due distinti mandati (1945-55 e 1960-64) nel ventennio della ricostruzione post-bellica, democratica e repubblicana: l’impegno amministrativo e la singolarità del ruolo politico di Zavatti hanno lasciato una profonda traccia nel vissuto di una città di grandi tradizioni storiche
Mesalina austroarabica Sindaco & Simó-Riudalbas & Sacchi & Carranza 2018, sp. nov.
No full textMesalina austroarabica sp. nov. (Figs. 1–5; Tables 1–5, Appendices I and III) Mesalina adramitana Arnold 1980: 307 (part.); Arnold 1986a: 426 (part.); Sindaco & Jeremcenko 2008: 261 (part.); Gardner 2013: 292 (part). Mesalina ayunensis van der Kooij 2001: 20 (part.); Mesalina spec. van der Kooij 2001: 21. Mesalina guttulata Kapli et al. 2015: 6. Mesalina sp. 1 Carranza et al. 2018. Holotype. Adult male MCCI-R1611, Oman, Dhofar Governorate, Jebel Samhan at 17.1161°N, 54.7131°E WGS84 (about 16 km E of Tawi Atair), 1,321 m a.s.l., 4 January 2010, R. Sindaco, C. Grieco, A. Venchi leg. Paratypes. Two adult males and an adult female MCCI-R1624/1- 3, same locality as the holotype, 19 November 2010, R. Sindaco, C. Grieco, A. Venchi leg.; a female (ONHM4331), same locality as the holotype, 30 April 2011, S. Carranza, E. Gómez-Díaz, F. Amat leg.; a male MCCI-R1810, Jebel Samhan at 17.1597°N, 54.8069°E WGS84, 1,594 m a.s.l., 14 October 2013, S. Carranza, M. Metallinou, R. Sindaco, J. Šmíd, R. Vasconcelos leg.; a male NMP 6V- 74966/1 and a young NMP 6V- 74966/2 Jebel Samhan at 17.1494°N, 54.9757°E WGS 84, 233 m a.s.l., same date and collectors as MCCI-R1810. Other specimens examined. Adult female NMP 6 V-74951, Oman, Dhofar, Jebel al Qamar at 16.8014°N, 53.2783°E, 1,076 m a.s.l., 27 December 2012, J. Šmíd, A. Chudárková leg., plus nine specimens used only for genetic analyses (no vouchers available, juvenile or damaged specimens); all listed in Appendix I. Etymology. The species epithet “ austroarabica ” is an adjective that refers to the geographic range of its populations, distributed across southern Arabia. Diagnosis. A small-sized Mesalina characterized by the following combination of morphological characters: (1) well-developed occipital scale in contact with the interparietal (Fig. 5E); (2) lower eyelid with a window made up of two large scales edged with black (Fig. 5D); (3) curved collar (Fig. 5F); (4) four upper labials in front of the subocular (Fig. 5D); (5) ventral plates in 8 straight longitudinal rows, the outermost much smaller (almost indistinct in MCCI-R 1624) (Fig. 5B); (6) scales on the upper surface of the tibia keeled (Fig. 5A); (7) lamellae under 4th toe, 20-21; (8) dorsal coloration of adult, brown-greyish, with incomplete black-and-white ocelli (the white dots are not completely surrounded by black, but only flanked by specks on one or either sides), ordered in irregular longitudinal and transverse rows (Fig. 5A); (9) bluish tail in juvenile specimens. There are no obvious diagnostic characters separating M. austroarabica sp. nov. from M. guttulata, M. bahaeldini and from the populations from the highlands of southwestern Arabia (M. sp. A in Arnold 1986a) described below. Statistical analyses (see Results above) show significant differences from M. guttulata in having smaller SVL (males), larger %HL (males and females) and larger %HW (females). Mesalina austroarabica sp. nov. shows significant differences from M. bahaeldini in having smaller SVL (males), less dorsals at midbody (males and females), and larger %HL and %forelimb length (females). Mesalina austroarabica sp. nov. shows significant differences with the populations from the highlands of southwestern Arabia (M. sp. A in Arnold 1986a) that is described herein, in having smaller SVL (males), less enlarged plates in the collar (males), less dorsals at midbody (males), less transverse rows of ventrals (males), less femoral pores (males), larger %HW (males and females), larger %forelimb length (males), larger value of Lamellae percSVL (males and females), larger %HL (females), larger %hindlimb length (females), larger %4th toe length (females). Genetic and phylogenetic remarks. The phylogenetic analyses by Kapli et al. (2015) and the phylogenetic and nuclear network analyses performed in this study (Fig. 2; Table 1) support the hypothesis that M. austroarabica sp. nov. is a different species. The level of genetic differentiation (p -distance) between the new species versus the other members of the Mesalina guttulata species complex ranges between 3.6–6.6% in the 12S, 4.3–6.4% in the 16S and 11.7–15.7% in the cytb genes (Table 1). A network analysis of the nuclear gene MC1R indicates that, despite the large number of samples of the M. guttulata species complex included in the analysis (36 specimens; 72 alleles), all five haplotypes (22 alleles) of M. austroarabica sp. nov. are private (Fig. 3; Appendix I). Description of the holotype. An adult male, with well-developed femoral pores, and original tail. Measurements, meristic characters and indexes: SVL = 41.5 mm, HL1 = 12.8 mm (31% of SVL), HL2 = 5.6 mm (13% of SVL), HL3 = 5.1 mm (12% of SVL), Head width = 7.0 mm (17% of SVL), Head depth = 5.0 mm (12% of SVL), pileus = 11.6 mm (28% of SVL), Forelimb length = 16.4 mm (40% of SVL), Hindlimb length = 31.4 mm (76% of SVL), 4th toe length = 9.9 mm (24% of SVL), Tail length = 93.0 mm, supralabials 8/9, subocular = 5/5, gulars = 25, enlarged plates in collar = 8, midbody scales = 39, longitudinal rows of ventrals = 8+2 (smaller), transversal rows of ventrals = 28, femoral pores = 13+13, lamellae under the 4th toe = 21. Head index = 183, Toe index = 32, Lamellae percSVL = 1.14. The two translucent scales forming the window in the lower eyelid are completely bordered by black. Coloration in alcohol: numerous small incomplete ocelli, each one formed by 3 or 4 whitish scales forming a dot and surrounded left and/or right by a few black colored scales. These ocelli form 6-8 irregular longitudinal series and about 13 very irregular transverse series, between the fore- and hindlimbs; they further extend to the base of the tail and to the hindlimbs. These ocelli become small black and white dots on the neck and on small scales of the head. The pileus is creamy-grey with irregular blackish specks. On the sides of the head a discontinuous dark stripe is present from the upper border of the ear opening, across the eye, to the loreal scale. Another ill-defined dark stripe (that consists of a few blackish irregular spots) extends between the mid-ear opening and the subocular scale. Flanks with a more or less distinct latero-ventral whitish stripe and a usually indistinct dorso-lateral light stripe. The ventral side is creamy-white, immaculate, with the exception of the infralabial scales, which are irregularly dotted with small gray spots, as well as the outer ventrals and the anterior margin of thighs. Variation. Quantitative variation (mensural and meristic) in the type series (n = 9) is summarized in Tables 2– 5. In one paratype (MCC-R1624/1), an additional scale separates the supranasals, and the naso-frontal scale is fragmented on the left side. The latter anomaly is present in the paratype (MCC-R1624/2) too. Coloration in life. Ground color brownish with more or less intense shades of gray (Fig. 5G). In October- November, the lateral parts of the belly and sides of the head have a pink-orange hue. Tail grayish with cyan shades in young specimens; the young depicted by van der Kooij (2001: 21) has the distal half of the tail distinctly cyan. Distribution and habitat. The species is widely distributed across more than 1,200 km in southern Arabia; from the Jebel Samhan in Dhofar to the Yemen Mountains (Fig. 1). It is unknown if the distribution is continuous or discontinuous and restricted to mountains. The type locality is a flat area (possibly a filled sinkhole) close to an escarpment, very scarcely vegetated, surrounded by low rocky hills covered by shrubs. Specimens were active among stones at the base of hills’ slopes. Other syntopic reptiles are the newly described species of Tropiocolotes (Machado et al. 2018), Pristurus sp. 1, Pristurus carteri, Pseudotrapelus dhofarensis, Psammophis schokari (a possible predator). Notes. Sexual maturity is probably reached with SVL ≥ 30 mm, as a male with SVL= 31 mm collected in October had femoral pores that produce secretions.Published as part of Sindaco, Roberto, Simó-Riudalbas, Marc, Sacchi, Roberto & Carranza, Salvador, 2018, Systematics of the Mesalina guttulata species complex (Squamata: Lacertidae) from Arabia with the description of two new species, pp. 513-547 in Zootaxa 4429 (3) on pages 528-530, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4429.3.4, http://zenodo.org/record/128506
Introduzione. Dove vanno e come stanno i partiti
No full textLe elezioni primarie sono una delle più significative e interessanti innovazioni introdotte nella politica italiana nel corso degli ultimi dieci anni con caratteristiche e dimensioni tali da renderlo un caso degno di rigoroso approfondimento. Il capitolo affronta, in un’ottica critica e scientifica, il tema delle primarie per la selezione delle candidature alla carica di sindaco. Oltre a offrire una interpretazione generale della repentina diffusione delle primarie comunali in Italia, si affronta il fenomeno sotto differenti punti di vista: l’importanza delle regole e dei regolamenti, il peso dell’apparato partitico, la comunicazione dei candidati, la partecipazione dei cittadini e, infine, le strategie elettorali adottate dagli elettori prima, durante e dopo le primarie
Vado per la città antica - Attività di valorizzazione dell'area archeologica di Tifernum Mataurense (Sant'Angelo in Vado - PU)
No full textIl progetto è stato rivolto alla valorizzazione dell'area archeologica di Tifernum Mataurense (Sant'Angelo in Vado – PU) nell’ambito della XXI Campagna di scavo presso le terme. Le iniziative intraprese, mirate a scuole e grande pubblico, sono state le seguenti: 'Inaugurazione della XXI campagna di scavo' con esperti archeologi; 'Per un cantiere aperto'; 'I lunedì dell'archeologia'; 'Da grande farò l'archeologo'; 'I ‘tesori’ del deposito archeologico:'; 'Serata evento tra scienza ed arte'
Figure 4 from: Kasalo N, Deranja M, Adžić K, Sindaco R, Skejo J (2021) Discovering insect species based on photographs only: The case of a nameless species of the genus Scaria (Orthoptera: Tetrigidae). Journal of Orthoptera Research 30(2): 173-184. https://doi.org/10.3897/jor.30.65885
No full textFigure 4 Living female of Scaria sp. in A. Dorsal view; B. Lateral view. Photo credit: Roberto Sindaco
A new species of elongate seps from Udzungwa grasslands, southern Tanzania (Reptilia, Gerrhosauridae, Tetradactylus Merrem, 1820)
No full textPristimantis leucorrhinus Boano, Mazzotti & Sindaco, 2008, sp. nov.
No full text<i>Pristimantis leucorrhinus</i> sp. nov. <p> <b>Holotype.</b> MHNSM 19996 (Fig. 1), a single female from the cloud forest surrounding the Refugio El Cedro (10°32.7’S, 75°21.4’W) at m 2500, collected on 11.XI.2006, Distrito de Chontabamba, Provincia de Oxapampa, Departamento de Pasco, Peru, by G. Boano, S. Mazzotti and R. Sindaco.</p> <p> <b>Diagnosis.</b> A member of the <i>Pristimantis unistrigatus</i> group having: (1) skin on dorsum shagreen, skin on venter areolate (mostly anteriorly), discoidal fold absent, dorsolateral folds in the scapular region only; (2) tympanic membrane and tympanic annulus absent; (3) snout short, rounded in dorsal and lateral views, swollen in the nostril region and slightly depressed between nostrils; (4) upper eyelid with many small tubercles and one large, horn-like tubercle (Fig. 1, inset b), eyelid slightly narrower than interorbital distance, cranial crests absent; (5) vomerine teeth small; (6) condition of vocal slits and nuptial excrescences unknown; (7) Finger I shorter than Finger II, discs on outer fingers broadly expanded, rounded; (8) fingers without lateral fringes; (9) ulnar tubercles present; (10) heel with single tubercle (Fig. 1, inset a), tarsal tubercles present; inner tarsal fold absent; (11) inner metatarsal tubercle rather large, ovoid, about 3x rounded outer metatarsal tubercle, few supernumerary plantar tubercles, low, diffuse; (12) toes with lateral fringes, webbing absent, Toe V longer than Toe III (condition “C” according to Duellman & Pramuk 1999), discs on toes slightly smaller than those on fingers; (13) dorsum cream and brown with dark brown markings, top of snout creamy white, venter brownish-grey with small black turbercles and a few white spots; black throat, black groin with two irregular white spots on the anterior surfaces of the thighs (Fig. 2); (14) snout to vent length (thereafter SVL) 21.1mm in the only known specimen.</p> <p> <i>Pristimantis leucorrhinus</i> is readily distinguished from all other species known from Peru by the combination of prominent, horn-like supraocular tubercles, a distinctive black and white pattern of the groin and a brownish iris with darker reticulations. Thirteen other Peruvian species (<i>P. altamazonicus, colodactylus, coronatus, cruciocularis, flavobracatus, imitatrix, lirellus, martiae, quaquaversus, rhabdocnemus, simonsii, tantanti,</i> and <i>ventrimarmoratus</i>) lack a differentiated tympanic membrane and annulus. None of these has a hornlike supraocular tubercle, and none has a color pattern like that of <i>P. leucorrhinus</i>. In particular, the very similar <i>P. flavobracatus</i> (Lehr <i>et al.</i> 2006) differs also by the colour (yellow) and pattern on groin and thighs, and by the colour of the iris, gold with fine black reticulations, with a broad dark-brown horizontal streak across pupil, and a narrow black vertical streak from pupil to lower margin of eye forming a “T”.</p> <p> <b>Description of the holotype.</b> Head almost as wide as body, slightly wider than longer; head width 39,3 % of SVL; head length 33.2 % SVL; snout short, rounded in dorsal and lateral views, swollen in nostril region with internarial region depressed; distance between eye and nostril 90% of eye diameter; nostrils directed dorsolaterally; canthus rostralis curved downwards in dorsal view, straight in profile; loreal region slightly concave; lips rounded; upper eyelid bearing many tubercles, five of them prominent, apical one more than twice as large as others; upper eyelid width 92% of interorbital distance; supratympanic fold weak, tympanic annulus and tympanic membrane absent; enlarged postrictal tubercles absent. Choanae small, rounded; vomerine teeth small; tongue rounded, 1.14 times as wide as long (length 4.2 mm, width at midlength of tongue 4.8 mm), not notched posteriorly, posterior three-fourths free.</p> <p>Skin on dorsum shagreen; dorsolateral folds present in the scapular region only; skin on flanks smooth with few, scattered spicules; skin on belly and chest areolate (mostly so anteriorly); discoidal fold absent; large tubercles in cloacal region on proximal half of posterodorsal surfaces of thighs. Forelimbs with low ulnar tubercles; palmar tubercles slightly elevated, outer tubercle approximately twice size of inner one; supernumerary tubercles below Fingers II–IV round, low, subequal in size to subarticular tubercles well defined, round in ventral view and subconical in lateral view, most prominent on base of Finger I; fingers with lateral fringes; relative length of fingers I <II <IV <III; discs on fingers expanded, largest on Fingers III–IV, rounded; all fingers having pads well defined by circumferential grooves (Fig. 3 a). Hind limbs slender, tibia length 52.6% of SVL; foot length 40.8% of SVL; upper surfaces of hind limbs smooth; posterior and ventral surfaces of thighs areolate; heel bearing single, strongly elevated, flat, subtriangular tubercle (less developed on left leg); tarsus with two small, elongate, low tubercles; tarsal fold absent; inner metatarsal tubercle low, elliptical, about twice size of outer metatarsal tubercle; some low plantar supernumerary tubercles; subarticular tubercles well defined, round in ventral view, subconical in lateral view; toes with lateral fringes, not webbed; discs on toes slightly smaller than those on fingers, most prominent on Toes IV–V, well defined by circumferential grooves; relative length of toes is I = II <III <V <IV; Toe V much longer than Toe III (disc on Toe III not reaching distal subarticular tubercle on Toe IV, tip of the disc on Toe V extending to distal bor- der of distal subarticular tubercle on Toe IV) (Fig. 3 b).</p>Published as part of <i>Boano, Giovanni, Mazzotti, Stefano & Sindaco, Roberto, 2008, A new peculiar frog species of the genus Pristimantis from Yanachaga-Chemillén National Park, Peru, pp. 51-57 in Zootaxa 1674</i> on pages 52-53, DOI: <a href="http://zenodo.org/record/180282">10.5281/zenodo.180282</a>
Blanus alexandri Sindaco, Kornilios, Sacchi & Lymberakis, 2014, sp. nov.
No full textBlanus alexandri sp. nov. Holotype. MCCI-R 1632. An adult collected on 26 April 2011, approximately 3.6 km NE of Derik (Mardin province, Turkey) at 37.3891 °N – 40.2980 E °, m 1161 a.s.l. (Fig. 6). Paratypes. MCCI-R 1633. An adult collected on 28 April 2011, approximately 3 km NE of Karalar village (Şırnak prov., Turkey) at 37.3153 °N, 41.7037 °E, m 831 a.s.l. MCCI-R 1634. An adult collected on 1 May 2011, approximately 1.5 km SE of Yukariokcular (Hatay province, Turkey) at 36.0778 °N, 36.1518 °E, m 562 a.s.l. MCCI-R 1635 (1–3). Three specimens collected on 2 May 2011, approximately 1.3 km E of Sungur (Hatay province, Turkey) at 36.0083 °N, 36.1218 °E, m 944 a.s.l. MSNG 57582. An adult collected on 24 May 2012 between Yesilçe and Isikli (Gaziantep province, Turkey) at 37.1611 °N, 37.2135 °E, m 1081 a.s.l. MSNG 57583. A specimen collected on 24 May 2012 2 km W of Akdam (Adana Province, Turkey), at 37.5515 °N, 35.5937 °E, m 932 a.s.l. MCCI-R 1678. A specimen collected on 24 May 2012 0.7 km SSW of Akarca Koyu (Adana Province, Turkey) at 37.5615 °N, 35.6367 °E, m 736 a.sl. Diagnosis. B. alexandri sp. nov. is easily distinguishable from the allopatric B. strauchi bedriagae by having a low number of precloacal pores (usually 3 + 3, more rarely 3 + 2 or 2 + 2, in a single specimen MCCI-R 1678: 4 + 4; N = 8), widely separated by two preanal scales, while B. s. bedriagae has 10 – rarely 8 - precloacal pores arranged in a continuous row or very rarely separated by a single scale. Moreover B. alexandri has three infralabials, instead of two of B. s. bedriagae. Also B. s. strauchi has the precloacal pores widely separated, but the number is higher than in B. alexandri, since it has 4 + 4 precloacal pores in 18 out of 19 examined specimens. There are no obvious morphological differences between B. alexandri and B. aporus, which differ by having more body annuli, less dorsal segments and ventral segments at midbody. The larger specimen (MCCI-R 1635 / 1) has a SVL = 200 mm, a size reached also by other taxa of the B. strauchi complex (Alexander 1966). Colour in life goes from grey to black; large specimens show more or less depigmented areas of the body (Fig. 6). Genetically, B. alexandri is clearly differentiated from the other two species, appearing as a distinct, strongly monophyletic unit in the mitochondrial phylogeny. The genetic divergence between this species and B. strauchi and B. aporus is very high (mean p -distance values are 12.7 % and 10.3 %, respectively), equal to or above the species-level when compared to Blanus species-pairs and other squamate reptiles for the same molecular marker (PRLR). The populations of B. alexandri are also genetically distinct on the basis of an independent nuclear marker, showing no apparent gene-flow, i.e. heterozygotes or shared alleles. Description of the holotype. Snout-vent length 162 mm, tail length 18.0 mm, head length 7.8 mm, head width 5.7 mm, prefrontal length 3.0 mm, prefrontal width 3.0 mm, 110 body annuli, 18 caudal annuli, 3 + 3 precloacal pores, 17 dorsal body segments and 17 ventral body segments. The prefontral scale is large, hardly wider than longer. The nostrils open in the anterior third of the nasal scale that is the first and bigger of the three supralabials; the second supralabial enters the prefrontal scale; the third supralabial scale is the smaller. The small ocular scales are in contact with five scales, including the prefrontal, the first and second supralabial. Following the prefontral plate there are three pairs of quadrangular plates on the occipital region, their size decreasing from anteriors to posteriors. The mental plate is a little bit bigger than the postmental. Infralabials three, the first smaller and the third bigger. Between the second and third infralabials and the postmental scale there are two post-genial rows of four (the anterior) and five (the posterior) quadrangular scales. The lateral shields of the first post-genial row is in very narrow contact with the postmental shield. Scales on the neck are smaller than the dorsal ones; the first rows are quadrangular or slightly wider than long; the scales on the trunk are elongated, the dorsal narrower than the ventral. The lateral sulci are well marked and the dorsal sulcus is visible from about 1 / 8 of the SVL until the proximal part of the tail. Colour in alcohol is greyish with pinkish intersegmental sutures, the vent is ligher than the dorsum. Variation. Variation in measurements and scale counts and measurements is shown in Table 4. The arrangement of scales is variable, also for scale arrangement diagnostic for other taxa (i.e. B. s. strauchi and B. s. bedriagae), as already stated by Alexander (1966). Large specimens are usually less coloured and can be partially depigmentated (i.e. MCCI-R 1635 / 1). Distribution. Specimens genetically identified occur between Akdam (Adana province) in the west, and Karalar (Şırnak province) in the east. It is likely that the populations of northern Iraq, Syria and Lebanon belong to this species. Derivatio nominis. The species is named in honour of A. Allan Alexander, who made the most valuable study on the Blanus strauchi complex and realized that the eastern populations could be distinguished from the Cilician taxon aporus.Published as part of Sindaco, Roberto, Kornilios, Panagiotis, Sacchi, Roberto & Lymberakis, Petros, 2014, Taxonomic reassessment of Blanus strauchi (Bedriaga, 1884) (Squamata: Amphisbaenia: Blanidae), with the description of a new species from south-east Anatolia (Turkey), pp. 311-326 in Zootaxa 3795 (3) on pages 321-322, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3795.3.6, http://zenodo.org/record/23093
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