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 text Zootaxa 2014 2014-08-20 3855 1 1 97 journal article 4341 10.11646/zootaxa.3855.1.1 1f4f2c28-d4fa-487a-bf83-988cc35518ea 1175-5326 4929701 0E2D2B7C-7A96-4CAB-87F2-87A785F88D7F Ablepharus Fitzinger, 1823 A western Palearctic genus of small-sized skinks with 10 currently recognized species, two of which occur in Iran . The genus appears sister to the central and east-Asian Asymblepharus , although only one representative of each genus was analyzed ( Pyron et al. 2013 ). For the time being there is no phylogenetic study where both the Iranian species would be included at once.