Acanthodactylus schmidti Haas, 1957

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

Acanthodactylus schmidti Haas, 1957

HOLOTYPE. CAS 84599.

TYPE LOCALITY. Dhahran, Eastern Region, Saudi Arabia.

DISTRIBUTION. The Arabian Peninsula including S Jordan, Iraq, and westernmost Iran.

DISTRIBUTION IN IRAN. Fig. 77 . Khuzestan and Bushehr Prov.

HABITAT. Active sand dunes with sparse vegetation.

REMARKS. Described by Haas (1957) as a subspecies of A. cantoris , subsequently elevated to a species level by Arnold (1980b). Its closest relative seems to be A. blanfordii ( Harris & Arnold 2000) .

REFERENCES. Salvador (1982); Arnold (1983); Anderson (1999); Harris & Arnold (2000).

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.