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 Chalcides Laurenti, 1768 Chalcides ocellatus ( Forskål, 1775 ) TYPE . Not located. TYPE LOCALITY. Egypt . DISTRIBUTION. N Africa from Western Sahara through Algeria , Tunisia , Libya , Egypt and south to Sudan , Ethiopia , and Somalia . Isolated populations are scattered throughout the central Sahara, some Mediterranean Islands (Sardinia, Sicily, Crete, Cyprus ), coastal Greece and S Turkey , Levant, the Arabian Peninsula, Persian Gulf coast and Makran coast in W Pakistan , Kopet Dagh range in Turkmenistan . DISTRIBUTION IN IRAN . Fig. 129 . Strictly coastal range along the Persian Gulf shores ( Bushehr , Hormozgan , Sistan and Baluchistan Prov. ) . HABITAT. Sandy or loose-soil habitats, usually found under debris close to human habitations, particularly in the eastern part of the range including Iran . REMARKS. The coastal character of the distribution in the eastern part of the range is believed to be a result of human-mediated transport. This assumption is also supported by morphology as the animals from SW Asia, Iraq , Arabia, Iran , and Pakistan are morphologically very similar to those from N Egypt , the place of supposed origin of the eastern populations ( Carranza et al. 2008 ). REFERENCES. Pasteur (1981) ; Anderson (1999) ; Carranza et al. (2008) ; Kornilios et al. (2010) ; Lavin & Papenfuss (2012) .