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 Uromastyx aegyptia ( Forskål, 1775 ) NEOTYPE . ZFMK 44216 ; Lectotype BMNH 1946.8 .14.55 ( U. a. microlepis ); both designated by Wilms & Böhme (2000) . TYPE LOCALITY. Suez , Egypt . DISTRIBUTION. Egypt , Israel , Jordan , Arabian Peninsula, Iraq , and Iran . DISTRIBUTION IN IRAN . Fig. 147 . Known only from Khuzestan and Bushehr Prov. and from islands in the Persian Gulf . HABITAT. Hard soils in open flatland areas with very sparse vegetation usually represented by individual Acacia shrubs or trees. REMARKS. The Iranian populations are assigned to the subspecies U. a. microlepis Blanford ( type locality: Basrah , Iraq ) . REFERENCES. Anderson (1999) ; Wilms & Böhme (2000) ; Wilms (2005) ; Wilms et al. (2009) .