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 Darevskia defilippii ( Camerano, 1877 ) SYNTYPES . MZUT R2713 ( 3 spec. ), MZUT R2734 ( 3 spec. ). TYPE LOCALITY. Lar Valley, Damavand, Mazandaran Prov. , Iran . DISTRIBUTION. Endemic to Iran . DISTRIBUTION IN IRAN . Fig. 82 . Southern coast of the Caspian Sea on both the northern and southern slopes of the Alborz Mountains ( Ardabil , Gilan , Zanjan , Qazvin , Mazandaran , and Tehran Prov. ) . HABITAT. Hill slopes with loose scree and rocky outcrops and shrubby vegetation. Recorded from up to 3355 m of elevation. REMARKS. As in the case of D. chlorogaster , the previously known distribution was split up into ranges of four independent and geographically non-overlapping species ( D. kopetdaghica , D. schaekeli , D. steineri , and D. defilippii ) after the revision of the D. defilippii complex by Ahmadzadeh et al. (2013a) . REFERENCES. Eiselt (1995) ; Anderson (1999) ; Arnold et al. (2007) ; Arribas (2012) ; Ahmadzadeh et al. (2013a) ; Yousefi et al. (2013) .