Annotated checklist and distribution of the lizards of Iran
Author
Šmíd, Jiří
Author
Moravec, Jiří
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Kodym, Petr
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Kratochvíl, Lukáš
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Yousefkhani, Seyyed Saeed Hosseinian
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Rastegar-Pouyani, Eskandar
jirismd@gmail.com.
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Frynta, Daniel
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Zootaxa
2014
2014-08-20
3855
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1
97
journal article
4341
10.11646/zootaxa.3855.1.1
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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
).