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 Stenodactylus Fitzinger, 1826 Stenodactylus affinis ( Murray, 1884 ) SYNTYPES . BMNH 1946.8 .23.33 (ex. BMNH 84.7.25.1), BMNH 1946.8 .23.60 (ex. BMNH 87.9.22.2). TYPE LOCALITY. Tanjistan, Persia [Tangestan, Bushehr Prov. , Iran ]. DISTRIBUTION. Iraq , Kuwait , Iran . DISTRIBUTION IN IRAN . Fig. 62 . Restricted to the Mesopotamian Plain ( Ilam , Khuzestan Prov. ) and areas along the Persian Gulf coast ( Bushehr and Hormozgan Prov. ) . HABITAT. The Iranian specimens were caught in “... a gravelled site on gypsum foothills with Alhagi camelorum vegetation” ( Fathinia et al. 2009 ), under stones in a cultivated field and on an unpaved road ( Anderson 1999 ). REMARKS. The closest relatives of S. affinis are S. grandiceps from the Levant and S. slevini from the Arabian Peninsula ( Metallinou et al. 2012 ). REFERENCES. Arnold (1980a) ; Anderson (1999) ; Torki (2010d) ; Metallinou et al. (2012) ; Hosseinian Yousefkhani et al. (2013b); Kamali (2013a) .