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 Mesalina Gray, 1838 A member of the Eremiadini tribe closely related to Acanthodactylus , Eremias , Omanosaura , and Ophisops . However, closer phylogenetic relationships among these genera remain unresolved even after a number of phylogenetic studies based on both morphological and genetic data ( Arnold 1989 ; Harris et al. 1998 ; Fu 1999 , 2000; Mayer & Pavlicev 2007 ; Greenbaum et al. 2011 ; Kapli et al. 2011 ; Pyron et al. 2013 ).