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Table 1. Symbolic codes for collections and other specimen-related abbreviations cited in this paper. 
Standard codes as listed by Sabaj (2016) are used except as noted and for private or smaller collections for 
which no standard code has been established. 
AIC: Adel A. Ibrahim Collection, Ha’il University, Ha’il, Saudi Arabia 
AMNH: American Museum of Natural History, New York, New York, USA 
ANSP: Academy of Natural Sciences of Drexel University (formerly Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia) 
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA 
BMNH: The Natural History Museum, London (formerly British Museum of Natural History), London, United Kingdom 
CAS: California Academy of Sciences, San Francisco, California, USA 
CM: Carnegie Museum of Natural History, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA 
CUP: Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic 
DB: sample designations used by Rato et al. (2012), chiefly corresponding to NHMC specimens 
FMNH: Field Museum of Natural History, Chicago, Illinois, USA 
GNM: Goteborgs Naturhistoriska Museum, Goteborg (Gothenburg), Sweden 
IZUM: Instituto di Zoologia dell’Universita di Modena, Modena, Italy 
KC: Prefix for GenBank accession numbers cited by Metallinou et al. (2012) 
KNP: Kouf (El-Kouf) National Park, Libya (cited exclusively by Schleich 1987) 
MCSN: Museo Civico di Storia Naturale di Milano, Milan, Italy (see also MSNM) 
MCCI: Museo Civico di Storia Naturale di Carmagnola, Turin, Italy 
MCZ: Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA 
MBRC: Marine Biology Research Centre, Tajura, Tripoli, Libya 
MHNG: Museum d’Histoire Naturelle, Ville de Geneve, Geneva, Switzerland 
MHNL: Musee des Confluences (formerly Musee d’ Histoire Naturelle de Lyon), Lyon, France 
NMP: Narodni Muzeum, Prague, Czech Republic 
MNHN: Museum National d’Histoire Naturelle, Paris, France 
MSNG: Museo Civico di Storia Naturale “Giacomo Doria,” Genova (Genoa), Italy 
MSNM: Museo Civico di Storia Naturale di Milano, Milan, Italy (see also MCSN) 
MTKD: Museum fur Tierkunde, Senckenberg Naturhistorische Sammlunbgen, Dresden, Germany 
MWNH: Museum Wiesbaden, Naturhistorische Landessammlung, Wiesbaden, Germany 
MZLU: Zoologiska Museet, Lunds Universitet, Lund, Sweden 
MZUF : Museo di Storia Naturale di Firenze, Sezione di Zoologia “La Specola,” Florence, Italy 
MZUT: Museo di Zoologia, Universita di Torino (housed but separately catalogued in Museo Regionale di Scienze Natu- 
rali di Torino), Turin, Italy 
NHMB: Naturhistorisches Museum, Basel, Switzerland 
NHMC: Natural History Museum of Crete, Heraklion, Greece 
NHMW: Naturhistorisches Museum, Wien, Vienna, Austria 
NMBE: Naturhistorisches Museum der Burgergemeinde Bern, Bern, Switzerland 
NMV: Museum Victoria, Melbourne, Australia 
NRM: Naturhistoriska Riksmuseet, Stockholm, Sweden 
PCHP: Peter C. H. Pritchard Collection, Chelonian Research Institute, Oviedo, Florida, USA 
PGe: Collection of Philippe Geniez, Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes, Paris, France 
RMNH: Naturalis Biodiversity Center (formerly Rijksmuseum van Natuurlijke Historie), Leiden, The Netherlands 
RN: Centre Voltaique de la Recherche Scientifique, Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso 
SK: Sammlung Kramer (collection of Eugen Kramer), Basel, Switzerland (specimens now incorporated into NMBA; cited 
by Kramer and Schnurrenberger, 1963) 
SMF: Forschungsinstitut und Naturmuseum Senckenberg, Frankfurt am Main, Germany 
SMNS: Staatliches Museum fur Naturkunde, Stuttgart, Germany 
SNHM: Staatliches Naturhistorisches Museum, Braunschweig, Germany 
Tm: abbreviation for Tarentola mauritanica used in Harris et al. (2004b) and Rato et al. (2010, 2012) 
UMNH: Utah Museum of Natural History, Salt Lake City, Utah, USA 
USNM: United States National Museum of Natural History, Washington D.C., USA 
UUZM: Evolutionsmuseet, Uppsala Universitet, Uppsala, Sweden 
ZCT: Zoological Collection at Taraghen, Taraghen (Traghan), Murzuq, Libya 
ZFMK: Zoologisches Forschungsmuseum Alexander Koenig, Bonn, Germany 
ZMA: Zoologisch Museum, Universiteit van Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands (now incorporated into RMNH) 
ZMB: Museum fur Naturkunde (formerly Zoologisches Museum der Humboldt-Universitat zu Berlin), Berlin, Germany 
ZSM: Zoologische Staatssammlung Munchen, Munich, Germany 
