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* Correspondence: cetin.ilgaz@deu.edu.tr The Lebanon lizard, Phoenicolacerta laevis, was first described by Gray (1838) from Lebanon as Lacerta laevis. It is known from southern Turkey, western Syria, throughout Lebanon, northern Israel, and northwestern Jordan (Baran and Atatür, 1998; Arnold et al., 2007; Baran et al., 2012). Arnold et al. (2007) conducted comprehensive molecular and morphological analysis on the subfamily Lacertinae and described 7 new genera. Four species (Lacerta laevis, L. kulzeri, L. cyanisparsa, and L. troodica) formerly considered as part of the genus Lacerta were elevated to a distinct genus by Arnold et al. (2007) as Phoenicolacerta. The first report of the occurrence of P. laevis in Turkey was from the Taurus Mountains (Werner, 1899). Later on, the occurrence of the species from other localities in Turkey was confirmed by Venzmer (1918, 1922), Bird (1936), Bodenheimer (1944), and Mertens (1952). Budak (1976) examined the morphology of P. laevis populations of Anatolia and concluded that they belonged to the nominal subspecies. Budak and Göçmen (1995) compared individuals from the Beşparmak Mountains in Cyprus with populations from Anatolia based on morphological characters and stated that the Anatolian populations could be distinguished from Cypriot ones in having small gular scales with higher numbers, subocular band extending below the temporal band, and an orange-red–colored site being present in the lower part of this region. Bischoff and Franzen (1993) and Bischoff and Schmidtler (1999) supported that P. laevis from Mersin differed in color patterns from P. laevis from Hatay. Tosunoğlu et al. (2001) compared the populations of L. laevis from Mersin and Hatay in terms of morphological characters and serological approaches and found that the 2 populations showed great intraand interpopulation variation in their pattern and color characteristics. They stated that the Mersin and Hatay populations showed no differences with which to evaluate different taxa. Until 2008, P. laevis had a continuous distribution in southern Turkey, including the provinces of Hatay, Adana, Mersin, and Kahramanmaraş (Budak, 1976; Baran and Atatür, 1998; Bischoff and Schmidtler, 1999; Tosunoğlu et al., 1999; Uğurtaş et al., 2000). Several recent works (Troidl and Troidl, 2008; Bruekers, 2010; Troidl and Troidl, 2011; Karış and Göçmen, 2014) documented the species’ presence along the southern and western Turkish coast reaching Özdere, İzmir, to the west, extending the species’ distribution by more than 650 km. The northeastern-most record of the species is Andırın, Kahramanmaraş (Bischoff and Schmidtler, 1999). A new locality for P. laevis in Dalaman, Muğla Province (Turkey) is reported in the present paper. Additionally, some data are given on the ecological features of its habitat. On 8 November 2014, 4 specimens (1 adult male, 2 subadult males, and 1 subadult female) of P. laevis were collected from Dalaman, Muğla Province (Figure 1). The specimens were fixed in 96% ethanol and later stored in 70% ethanol (Başoğlu and Baran, 1977) in the Zoology Lab of the Department of Biology at the Faculty of Science, Dokuz Eylül University. The locality from which specimens were collected is shown in Figure 1. Color and pattern Abstract: During fieldwork in western Anatolia 4 specimens (1 adult male, 2 subadult males, and 1 subadult female) of Phoenicolacerta laevis from Dalaman, Muğla Province, were collected in November 2014. The results including meristic pholidolial characteristics, metric measurements, and color-pattern features of specimens are compared with the data given in the previous literature. The occurrence of P. laevis in southern and western Anatolia is discussed.

A new locality record for Phoenicolacerta laevis (Gray, 1838)(Squamata: Lacertidae) in western Anatolia