Eublepharis turcmenicus Darevsky, 1977

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

Eublepharis turcmenicus Darevsky, 1977

HOLOTYPE. ZIL 10103.

TYPE LOCALITY. Bakharden, Turkmenistan.

DISTRIBUTION. Slopes of the Kopet Dagh in Turkmenistan, N Iran.

DISTRIBUTION IN IRAN. Fig. 28 . So far confirmed only from two localities by the Turkmen borders in North Khorasan and Khorasan Razavi Prov. (Darevsky 1978; Auer et al. 2008) .

HABITAT. Stony foothills with fragments of rocks. Vegetation cover dominated by Artemisia and Ephedra bushes. In Turkmenistan found up to 812 m of altitude ( Szczerbak & Golubev 1996).

REMARKS. Second locality confirming the presence of this species in Iran was published relatively recently ( Auer et al. 2008). It seems to be extremely rare in Iran.

REFERENCES. Darevsky (1978); Grismer (1988, 1991); Szczerbak & Golubev (1996); Anderson (1999); Rösler (1999); Auer et al. (2008).

Figures

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