Cyrtopodion brevipes (Blanford, 1874)

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 : 17

Cyrtopodion brevipes (Blanford, 1874)

HOLOTYPE. ZSI 3465 .

TYPE LOCALITY. Originally Gedrosia, Baluchistan; restricted to Aptan near Bampur, Persian Baluchistan [= Sistan and Baluchistan Prov.] by Annandale (1913).

DISTRIBUTION. Endemic to Iran.

DISTRIBUTION IN IRAN. Fig. 34 . So far known with certainty only from the region of the type locality in Sistan and Baluchistan Prov. and eastern Hormozgan Prov. (CUP collection: CUP\REPT\IRA\875). Murray (1884) provided two localities from the vicinity of Bushehr, but Anderson (1999) was sceptical of Murray’s identifications and considered the presence of this species in Bushehr Prov. unlikely.

HABITAT. Virtually nothing is known about this species’ preferred habitat. The only available information is from where the types were collected—an open sandy plain with scattered vegetation ( Anderson 1999).

REFERENCES. Murray (1884); Annandale (1913); Anderson (1999).

Figures

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