Teratoscincus microlepis Nikolsky, 1899

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 : 49

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

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Teratoscincus microlepis Nikolsky, 1899
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Teratoscincus microlepis Nikolsky, 1899

HOLOTYPE. ZIL 9164.

TYPE LOCALITY. “ Duz-ab in Kirmano orientali”; placed between Dobaz and Zahedan, Sistan and Baluchistan Prov., Iran by Szczerbak & Golubev (1986), but a place named Dubaz is situated in Baluchistan, Pakistan, not far from the border with Iran.

DISTRIBUTION. SE Iran, S Afghanistan, W Pakistan.

DISTRIBUTION IN IRAN. Fig. 145 View FIGURES 140–145. 140 . Kerman and Sistan and Baluchistan Prov.

HABITAT. Loose sandy soil. Reported also on saline saturated soils with a salt crust (Zarudny ex. Szczerbak & Golubev 1996).

REMARKS. Teratoscincus microlepis is a basal lineage of the genus. It is believed that it became separated as a result of the uplift of the Hindu Kush about 20 Mya ( Macey et al. 1999, 2005).

REFERENCES. Minton (1966); Anderson (1993, 1999); Szczerbak & Golubev (1996); Macey et al. (1999, 2005); Khan (2006).

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