Apathya cappadocica ( Werner, 1902 )

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 : 29-30

Apathya cappadocica ( Werner, 1902)

HOLOTYPE. Lost ( Eiselt 1979); Holotype ZIL 12657b (A. c. urmiana) .

TYPE LOCALITY. Erdschias-Dagh [= Mount Erciyes, Kayseri Prov., Turkey]; the second syntype from Burdur [Buldur], Turkey , is misidentified Anatololacerta danfordi (Günther) ( Eiselt 1979) ; type locality of the Iranian subspecies A. c. urmiana is Kherra, Berdesur River Gorge, West Azerbaijan Prov., Iran .

DISTRIBUTION. S Turkey, N Syria, N Iraq, W Iran.

DISTRIBUTION IN IRAN. Fig. 78 . Confined to the provinces adjoining Iraq (West Azerbaijan, East Azerbaijan, Kordestan, Kermanshah, Ilam Prov.) .

HABITAT. Vertical rock walls and rocky outcrops. Anderson (1999) observed this species in a narrow gorge with steep, loose, rocky slopes with overgrazed steppe vegetation with Crataegus , Juglans , Olea , and Pistacia trees.

REMARKS. All Iranian populations are attributed to A. c. urmiana Lantz & Suchow (for map of the distribution of all A. cappadocica subspecies see Kapli et al. (2013)).

REFERENCES. Lantz & Suchow (1934); Eiselt (1979); Anderson (1999); Arnold et al. (2007); Rajabizadeh et al. (2010c); Kapli et al. (2013).

Figures

FIGURES 74–79. 74. Acanthodactylus khamirensis. 75. Acanthodactylus micropholis. 76. Acanthodactylus nilsoni. 77. Acanthodactylus schmidti. 78. Apathya cappadocica. Blue square denotes the type locality for A. c. urmiana. 79. Apathya yassujica.