Uromastyx loricata (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 : 50

Uromastyx loricata (Blanford, 1874)

HOLOTYPE. BMNH 1946.8 .11.59.

TYPE LOCALITY. Bushehr, Bushehr Prov., Iran .

DISTRIBUTION. Iran and Iraq.

DISTRIBUTION IN IRAN. Fig. 149 . Confined to the Mesopotamian Plain west of the Zagros.

HABITAT. Flat plains, valleys, river banks or mild slopes typically with clayey or sandy substrate in which this species excavates its burrows, usually associated into colonies.

REFERENCES. Anderson (1999); Wilms (2005); Wilms et al. (2009).

Figures

FIGURES 146–151. 146. Diplometopon zarudnyi. 147. Uromastyx aegyptia. 148. Uromastyx asmussi. 149. Uromastyx loricata. 150. Varanus bengalensis. 151. Varanus griseus.