Cyrtopodion agamuroides ( Nikolsky, 1900 )

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 : 16-17

Cyrtopodion agamuroides ( Nikolsky, 1900)

LECTOTYPE. ZIL 9327, designated by Szczerbak & Golubev (1986).

TYPE LOCALITY. Originally Neizar, Sistan, and Duz-Abad and Pendsch-Sara, Kerman Prov., Iran; restricted to Pensareh [= Pendsch-Sara], E Kerman Prov., Iran by Szczerbak & Golubev (1986).

DISTRIBUTION. Iran, Afghanistan, Pakistan.

DISTRIBUTION IN IRAN. Fig. 33. S Iran south of the 31.5° latitude. The record from Khorasan Razavi Prov. by Hosseinian Yousefkhani et al. (2012a) was a misidentified Tenuidactylus longipes (Rajabizadeh, in litt.).

HABITAT. Known to climb ruins of earthen buildings in habitats with sandy and clayey soils; reported active also during the day ( Szczerbak & Golubev 1996).

REMARKS. Cyrtopodion agamuroides was found to be syntopic with ecologically similar C. sistanense ( Nazarov & Rajabizadeh 2007) . By the time of the phylogenetic analysis published by Červenka et al. (2008), C. agamuroides was paraphyletic with respect to C. gastropholis and might in fact be a complex of more species. Since then, two new species from to the agamuroides -group have been described ( Nazarov et al. 2009; Ahmadzadeh et al. 2011). No additional phylogenetic study comprising these taxa was performed so the relationships of the above species remain unknown.

REFERENCES. Szczerbak & Golubev (1986, 1996); Anderson (1999); Nazarov & Rajabizadeh (2007); Červenka et al. (2008, 2010); Ahmadzadeh et al. (2011).

Figures

FIGURES 32–37. 32. Crossobamon eversmanni. 33. Cyrtopodion agamuroides. 34. Cyrtopodion brevipes. 35. Cyrtopodion gastropholis. 36. Cyrtopodion golubevi. 37. Cyrtopodion hormozganum.