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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Stenodactylus arabicus
(
Haas, 1957
)
HOLOTYPE
.
CAS
84321.
TYPE LOCALITY. Abqaiq,
Eastern Region
,
Saudi Arabia
.
DISTRIBUTION. The southeastern Arabian Peninsula (
Yemen
,
Saudi Arabia
,
Oman
,
UAE
,
Qatar
,
Kuwait
,
Iran
). DISTRIBUTION IN
IRAN
.
Fig 63
. Known only from one recently recorded locality in
Khuzestan Prov.
(
Fathinia
et al.
2014
).
HABITAT. Areas of windblown sand and sand dunes with sparse shrubby vegetation.
REMARKS. A sister species to
S. sharqiyahensis
Metallinou & Carranza
from eastern
Oman
(
Metallinou & Carranza 2013
).
REFERENCES.
Arnold (1980a)
;
Metallinou
et al.
(2012)
;
Metallinou & Carranza (2013)
;
Fathinia
et al.
(2014)
.