Calotes versicolor ( Daudin, 1802 )

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 : 8

Calotes versicolor ( Daudin, 1802)

HOLOTYPE. Presumably in the Paris museum, but apparently lost ( Auffenberg & Rehman 1993).

TYPE LOCALITY. Not given by the author; designated to Pondicherry, India by Smith (1935).

DISTRIBUTION. A tropical Asian lizard widely distributed from the extreme SE Iran through Pakistan and India, S China and SE Asia including Sumatra. Introduced to Borneo, S Oman, Kenya, and USA ( Arnold 1986a; Das et al. 2008; Šandera & Starostová 2009; Meshaka 2011).

DISTRIBUTION IN IRAN. Fig. 6 . Sistan and Baluchistan Prov.

HABITAT. An arboreal lizard occurring wherever there are trees or shrubs available, most common by water streams and riversides. Although it can tolerate considerable aridity, in desert habitats it is confined to oases and vegetation along the water courses ( Khan 2006). SE Iran represents the westernmost projection of the species’ autochthonous range, however, it is found here only on date palms and its presence may be caused by humanmediated transfer ( Anderson 1999).

REFERENCES. Minton (1966); Anderson (1974, 1999); Auffenberg & Rehman (1993); Hallermann (2000); Mobaraki et al. (2013).

Figures

FIGURES 2–7. 2. Provinces of Iran with their capitals. Names of provinces are in bold, capitals in plain. 3. Major geographic features of Iran and neighbouring countries. 4. Geographic distribution of all presence records assembled for this work. 5. All records mapped on a 0.25° × 0.25° grid. 6. Calotes versicolor. 7. Laudakia caucasia.