Bunopus tuberculatus Blanford, 1874

Šmíd, Jiří, Moravec, Jiří, Kodym, Petr, Kratochvíl, Lukáš, Yousefkhani, Seyyed Saeed Hosseinian, Rastegar-Pouyani, Eskandar & Frynta, Daniel, 2014, Annotated checklist and distribution of the lizards of Iran, Zootaxa 3855 (1), pp. 1-97 : 15-16

Bunopus tuberculatus Blanford, 1874

LECTOTYPE. BMNH 1946.8 .22.84 (ex. BMNH 74.11.23.85), designated by Szczerbak & Golubev (1986).

TYPE LOCALITY. Originally “Gedrosia Persiaque meridionali” (Blanford 1874), restricted to Baluchistan by Smith (1935); further restricted to “near Bampur, Baluchistan ” by Szczerbak & Golubev (1986).

DISTRIBUTION. The whole of the Arabian Peninsula, Levant, Iraq, Iran, SW Afghanistan, Pakistan.

DISTRIBUTION IN IRAN. Fig. 31 . From the Mesopotamian plain in Khuzestan to Bushehr Prov.; the Iranian Plateau from S of the Kopet Dagh to the coastal areas around the Strait of Hormuz and Gulf of Oman. Absent from the Zagros mountain range .

HABITAT. Usually sandy habitats from blowing sand dunes to sand mixed with gravel or pastures, associated with desert and steppe vegetation such as Tamarix ( Anderson 1999) .

REMARKS. There are large genetic distances between populations from central and SE Iran, the latter being closely related to the populations from Syria and Kuwait ( Červenka et al. 2008). This intraspecific diversification which is similar to that between B. tuberculatus and B. crassicauda suggests a cryptic diversity of Bunopus geckos with potentially undescribed species in the central part of its range.

REFERENCES. Szczerbak & Golubev (1986, 1996); Anderson (1999); Červenka et al. (2008); Bauer et al. (2013); Kamali & Mozaffari (2013).

Figures

FIGURES 26–31. 26. Eublepharis angramainyu. 27. Eublepharis macularius. 28. Eublepharis turcmenicus. 29. Agamura persica. 30. Bunopus crassicauda. 31. Bunopus tuberculatus.