The last of the large-sized tortoises of the Mediterranean
islands

J 2022

The last of the large-sized tortoises of the Mediterranean islands

VALENTI, Pietro; Evangelos VLACHOS; Christian KEHLMAIER; Uwe FRITZ; Georgios L. GEORGALIS et. al.

Základní údaje

Originální název

The last of the large-sized tortoises of the Mediterranean islands

Autoři

VALENTI, Pietro; Evangelos VLACHOS; Christian KEHLMAIER; Uwe FRITZ; Georgios L. GEORGALIS; Ángel HERNÁNDEZ LUJÁN; Roberto MICCICHE; Luca SINEO a Massimo DELFINO

Vydání

Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society, Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2022, 0024-4082

Další údaje

Jazyk

angličtina

Typ výsledku

Článek v odborném periodiku

Obor

10506 Paleontology

Stát vydavatele

Velká Británie a Severní Irsko

Utajení

není předmětem státního či obchodního tajemství

Odkazy

URL

Impakt faktor

Impact factor: 2.800

Kód RIV

RIV/00216224:14310/22:00126299

Organizační jednotka

Přírodovědecká fakulta

DOI

https://doi.org/10.1093/zoolinnean/zlac044

UT WoS

000820020500001

EID Scopus

2-s2.0-85135160952

Klíčová slova anglicky

ancient DNA; insular faunas; Italy; latest Late Pleistocene; parsimony; Sicily; Testudinidae

Štítky

14315010, rivok

Příznaky

Mezinárodní význam, Recenzováno

Změněno: 11. 7. 2023 09:51, Mgr. Marie Novosadová Šípková, DiS.

Anotace

V originále

Archaeological investigations carried out in the cave Zubbio di Cozzo San Pietro, Bagheria, Sicily, revealed the presence of a few skeletal elements of a large-sized tortoise in a funerary area dating to the Copper/Bronze Age. The tortoise has been AMS-dated revealing an age of 12.5 +/- 0.5 kyr BP and therefore it pre-dates the funerary activities. The morphology of the retrieved skeletal elements differs from that of the only native tortoise currently living in Sicily, Testudo hermanni. The tortoise's size significantly exceeds the size range of extant Te. hermanni and all Testudo spp., as well as that of their known fossils, and suggests a shell length of 50-60 cm. Repeated efforts to obtain DNA sequences from the tortoise of Zubbio di Cozzo San Pietro failed, but the morphology of the femur is distinct enough to allow us to erect a new taxon, Solitudo sicula gen. et sp. nov., based on a parsimony analysis. It belongs to a hitherto unrecognized clade that includes other large-sized tortoises from Mediterranean islands, like Malta and Menorca. A review of the pertinent taxa indicates that the remains here described represent the geologically youngest large-sized tortoise of the Mediterranean area.

Návaznosti

EF16_027/0008360, projekt VaV

Název: Postdoc@MUNI

Citovat

VALENTI, Pietro; Evangelos VLACHOS; Christian KEHLMAIER; Uwe FRITZ; Georgios L. GEORGALIS; Ángel HERNÁNDEZ LUJÁN; Roberto MICCICHE; Luca SINEO a Massimo DELFINO. The last of the large-sized tortoises of the Mediterranean islands. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2022, roč. 196, č. 4, s. 1704-1717. ISSN 0024-4082. Dostupné z: https://doi.org/10.1093/zoolinnean/zlac044.

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VALENTI, Pietro; Evangelos VLACHOS; Christian KEHLMAIER; Uwe FRITZ; Georgios L. GEORGALIS; Ángel HERNÁNDEZ LUJÁN; Roberto MICCICHE; Luca SINEO a Massimo DELFINO. The last of the large-sized tortoises of the Mediterranean islands. \textit{Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society}. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2022, roč.~196, č.~4, s.~1704-1717. ISSN~0024-4082. Dostupné z: https://doi.org/10.1093/zoolinnean/zlac044.

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