Annotated checklist and distribution of the lizards of Iran
Author
Šmíd, Jiří
Author
Moravec, Jiří
Author
Kodym, Petr
Author
Kratochvíl, Lukáš
Author
Yousefkhani, Seyyed Saeed Hosseinian
Author
Rastegar-Pouyani, Eskandar
jirismd@gmail.com.
Author
Frynta, Daniel
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Zootaxa
2014
2014-08-20
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Phrynocephalus scutellatus
(
Olivier, 1807
)
HOLOTYPE
.
MNHN 6947
.
TYPE LOCALITY. “Au pied de la montagne” [=
Mt. Sophia
, near
Esfahan
,
Esfahan Prov.
,
Iran
]
.
DISTRIBUTION.
Iran
,
Afghanistan
and
Pakistan
up to the Makran and Sulaiman Mountain ranges.
DISTRIBUTION IN
IRAN
.
Fig. 19
. Widely distributed all over the central Iranian Plateau but not crossing the Zagros in the west and the
Alborz
in the north.
HABITAT. Flat gravel desert plains with very little vegetation. Avoids sandy or clayey substrates. Found up to
2300 m
elevation (
Anderson 1999
).
REMARKS. A single record from
Kermanshah Prov.
(USNM 69902) is most probably a misidentified animal. REFERENCES.
Anderson (1999
,
2000
).