Cyrtopodion kirmanense ( 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 : 18

Cyrtopodion kirmanense ( Nikolsky, 1900)

LECTOTYPE. ZIL 9330, designated by Szczerbak & Golubev (1986).

TYPE LOCALITY. Kuh-e Taftan, Sargad, Sistan and Baluchistan Prov., Iran; restricted to Kuh-e Taftan by Szczerbak & Golubev (1986).

DISTRIBUTION. Endemic to Iran.

DISTRIBUTION IN IRAN. Fig. 40 . Sistan and Baluchistan Prov. There are uncertain records from Kerman, Kerman Prov. ( NHMW specimen) and Persepolis, Fars Prov., reported by Schmidt (1939) which lack any details concerning the specimens determination .

HABITAT. “... sheer rocky cliffs in the mountains, river banks and dry channels; shady terraces, cracks, niches; occasionally, on loose fragments of rock boulders. It is most frequently found on granites and, less often, on conglomerates and other rocks.” ( Szczerbak & Golubev 1996).

REFERENCES. Szczerbak & Golubev (1986, 1996); Anderson (1999).

Figures

FIGURES 38–43. 38. Cyrtopodion kachhense. 39. Cyrtopodion kiabii. 40. Cyrtopodion kirmanense. 41. Cyrtopodion persepolense. 42. Cyrtopodion scabrum. 43. Cyrtopodion sistanense.