Abstract
Герпетофауна города Севастополь (юго-западный Крым): видовой состав, зоогеографическая характеристика, ландшафтно-зональное распределение, современное состояние и охрана
Highlights
In recent years, insufficient attention has been paid to the protection of the herpetofauna of Crimea
During a quartercentury of research, we observed in Sevastopol: several individuals of C. austriaca, up to 30 individuals of Elaphe sauromates and Natrix tessellata, about 100 individuals of Lacerta agilis tauridica and Z. situla, several hundred individuals of T. karelinii, H. orientalis, Ps. apodus and Do. caspius and, several thousand individuals of M. danilewskii
The total length of the examined routes for the studied period amounted to 733 km; 222 records of amphibians and reptiles of the Red Book of Sevastopol were registered
Summary
Insufficient attention has been paid to the protection of the herpetofauna of Crimea. Today the Crimean Peninsula is undergoing large-scale landscape transformations, as never before in its history, and information on details of the distribution of animal species becomes extremely relevant, since there is a high risk of losing many populations of rare species before they become known to science. This gap in knowledge is even reflected in the cadastral passports of specially protected natural territories, which may contain incomplete and sometimes erroneous information on herpetofauna.
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