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 Teratoscincus keyserlingii Strauch 1863 LECTOTYPE . ZIL 2396, designated by Szczerbak & Golubev (1986) . TYPE LOCALITY. Seri-Tschah [Sar Chah], South Khorasan Prov. , Iran . DISTRIBUTION. Iran , W Afghanistan , W Pakistan ; isolated populations in Qatar and UAE . DISTRIBUTION IN IRAN . Fig. 144 . Central and eastern desert basins from Esfahan and Semnan Prov. south to Hormozgan and Sistan and Baluchistan Prov . HABITAT. Sandy soil sometimes encrusted with salt. Anderson (1993) found all three Iranian species syntopic in the Zabol area ( northern Sistan and Baluchistan Prov. ) . REMARKS. This species was previously considered a subspecies of T. scincus (Schlegel, 1858) , and although it is currently regarded as a full species ( Macey et al. 2005 ; Mozaffari & Parham 2007 ; Gardner 2013 ), its elevation to species status has not been fully clarified yet. Teratoscincus zarudnyi Nikolsky, 1896 also described from Iran is a younger synonym of T. keyserlingii . REFERENCES. Szczerbak & Golubev (1986 , 1996 ); Anderson (1993 , 1999 ); Manilo (1993) ; Macey et al. (2005) .