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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Eublepharis macularius
(
Blyth, 1854
)
HOLOTYPE
.
ZSI 6224
.
TYPE LOCALITY. Salt Range, Punjab, NW
India
.
DISTRIBUTION. NE
India
,
Pakistan
, SE
Afghanistan
, E
Iran
.
DISTRIBUTION IN
IRAN
.
Fig. 27
. Eastern
South Khorasan Prov.
, the only known locality needs to be verified (see below).
HABITAT. Clay-gravel soil covered by sand and abounding in bushes of
Zygophyllum
(Zarudny
ex.
Szczerbak & Golubev 1996
).
REMARKS. The only Iranian record is based on
two specimens
collected by Zarudny, who assigned them superficially to
E. macularius
on the basis of tail morphology. Both specimens were lost before they could be deposited in the collections (
Anderson 1999
). This record lies isolated by ca.
500 km
W from the nearest confirmed locality of the species in
Afghanistan
(
Sindaco & Jeremčenko 2008
). Because the vouchers do not exist it is impossible to decide whether they really belonged to
E. macularius
or to geographically similarly distant
E. turcmenicus
occurring in
Turkmenistan
.
REFERENCES.
Anderson & Leviton (1966a)
;
Grismer (1988)
;
Szczerbak & Golubev (1996)
;
Anderson (1999)
.