Uromastyx aegyptia ( Forskål, 1775 )

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 aegyptia ( Forskål, 1775)

NEOTYPE. ZFMK 44216 ; Lectotype BMNH 1946.8 .14.55 (U. a. microlepis ); both designated by Wilms & Böhme (2000) .

TYPE LOCALITY. Suez, Egypt.

DISTRIBUTION. Egypt, Israel, Jordan, Arabian Peninsula, Iraq, and Iran.

DISTRIBUTION IN IRAN. Fig. 147 . Known only from Khuzestan and Bushehr Prov. and from islands in the Persian Gulf .

HABITAT. Hard soils in open flatland areas with very sparse vegetation usually represented by individual Acacia shrubs or trees.

REMARKS. The Iranian populations are assigned to the subspecies U. a. microlepis Blanford (type locality: Basrah , Iraq) .

REFERENCES. Anderson (1999); Wilms & Böhme (2000); 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.