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

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Uromastyx aegyptia ( Forskål, 1775)

NEOTYPE. ZFMK 44216 About ZFMK ; 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 View FIGURES 146–151. 146 . 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).

References

Anderson, S. C. (1999) The lizards of Iran. Society for the Study of Amphibians and Reptiles, Oxford, Ohio, 442 pp.

Forskal, P. (1775) Descriptiones animalium, avium, amphibiorum, piscium, insectorum, vermium; quae in itinere Orientali observavit Petrus Forskal. Molleri, Hauniae, 164 pp.

Wilms, T. & Bohme, W. (2000) A new Uromastyx species from south-eastern Arabia, with comments on the taxonomy of Uromastyx aegyptia (Forskal, 1775). Herpetozoa, 13, 133 - 148.

Wilms, T. (2005) Uromastyx - Natural History, Captive Care, Breeding. Herpeton Offenbach, 143 pp.

Wilms, T. M., Bohme, W., Wagner, P., Lutzmann, N. & Schmitz, A. (2009) On the phylogeny and taxonomy of the genus Uromastyx Merrem, 1820 (Reptilia: Squamata: Agamidae: Uromastycinae) - resurrection of the genus Saara Gray, 1845. Bonner zoologische Beitrage, 56, 55 - 99.