Cyrtopodion sistanense Nazarov & Rajabizadeh, 2007

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 : 19

Cyrtopodion sistanense Nazarov & Rajabizadeh, 2007

HOLOTYPE. ZMMU R-12390.

TYPE LOCALITY. Nosratabad, 90 km W from Zahedan, Sistan and Baluchistan Prov., Iran.

DISTRIBUTION. Endemic to Iran.

DISTRIBUTION IN IRAN. Fig. 43 . Sistan and Baluchistan Prov.

HABITAT. Dry low clay hills with poor shrubby vegetation. One of the paratypes was collected in a “small, more humid intermountain valley, filled by coarse-grained alluvium and covered with rather dense shrub vegetation” ( Nazarov & Rajabizadeh 2007).

REMARKS. Closely related to C. scabrum ( Pyron et al. 2013) .

REFERENCES. Nazarov & Rajabizadeh (2007); Červenka et al. (2008).

Figures

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