Mesalina brevirostris 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 : 39

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https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.3855.1.1

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DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4929439

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scientific name

Mesalina brevirostris Blanford, 1874
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Mesalina brevirostris Blanford, 1874

SYNTYPES. BMNH 1946.8 .6.34 (ex. BMNH 80.11.10.40) and ZSI 3474 ; Holotype MCZ 56617 (M. b. fieldi) .

TYPE LOCALITY. “insula Tumb dicta sinus Persici, et ad Kulabagh in regione Punjab Indiae” [Tumb Island, Hormuz Strait, Persian Gulf and Kalabagh, Punjab, Pakistan]; restricted by Schmidt (1939) to Kalabagh , however, without designating lectotype .

DISTRIBUTION. The Sinai, Levant, Iraq, Kuwait, NE Saudi Arabia, UAE, coastal Iran, and Pakistan.

DISTRIBUTION IN IRAN. Fig. 112 View FIGURES 110–115. 110 . The Mesopotamian Plain in Ilam and Khuzestan Prov., coastal Bushehr and Hormozgan Prov. including Persian Gulf islands and Sistan and Baluchistan Prov .

HABITAT. Sandy or silt-soil plains or foothills with scattered sparse vegetation.

REMARKS. The subspecies M. b. fieldi Haas & Werner (type locality Mahor Birinji, Khuzestan Prov.) occurs in the western part of the Iranian range.

REFERENCES. Schmidt (1939); Haas & Werner (1969); Anderson (1999); in den Bosch (2001); Moravec (2004); Mayer et al. (2006); Kapli et al. (2008); Heidari & Kami (2009); Kamali (2013c).

MCZ

Museum of Comparative Zoology

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Chordata

Class

Reptilia

Order

Squamata

Family

Lacertidae

Genus

Mesalina

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