Crossobamon eversmanni lumsdeni ( Boulenger, 1887:479 )

Wagner, Philipp, Bauer, Aaron M., Leviton, Alan E., Wilms, Thomas M. & Böhme, Wolfgang, 2016, A Checklist of the Amphibians and Reptiles of Afghanistan *, Proceedings of the California Academy of Sciences 63 (13), pp. 457-565 : 486

Crossobamon eversmanni lumsdeni ( Boulenger, 1887:479)

1887 Stenodactylus lumsdeni Boulenger , Catalogue of the Lizards in the British Museum (Natural History) Vol. III. Lacertidae , Gerrhosauridae , Scincidae , Anelytropsidae , Dibamidae , Chamaeleontidae . Trustees of the British Museum (Natural History), London, United Kingdom. xii + 575 pp., pls. I–XL.

HOLOTYPE.— BMNH 86 .9.21.8 [1946.8.23. 51], from Afghanistan-Baluchistan frontier “between Nushki and Helmand ”, N Balochistan. The type specimen is additionally figured in Boulenger (1889, pl. IX, fig. 1).

SYNONYM.— Stenodactylus maynardi Smith 1933 (syntype ZSI 13944) from “Baluchistan near the Afghanistan frontier”; syntype (most probably BMNH 1946.8.23. 36) from the same locality .

LOCALITIES.— In Afghanistan only known from the two above mentioned imprecise localities. However, Aitchison (1889:95) explicitly mentions “in Northern Baluchistan ” and therefore the type specimens were most probably collected in an area which is today Pakistan .

REMARKS.— The status of Stenodactylus lumsdeni Boulenger is still under discussion. Szczerbak and Golubev (1986, 1996) regarded it as closely related to Crossobamon eversmanni , whereas Anderson (1999), who examined the name bearing type, recognized it as conspecific with B. tuberculatus . Later, Bauer et al. (2013) again followed Szczerbak and Golubev (1986, 1996). Leviton and Anderson (1970) and also Szczerbak and Golubev (1986, 1996) recognized C. eversmanni from northern Afghanistan (see above). However, Leviton and Anderson (1970) additionally mentioned C. lumsdenii and C. maynardi as distinct species from other localities in the country, whereas Szczerbak and Golubev (1996) recognized C. lumsdenii as a subspecies of C. eversmanni and C. maynardi as synonym of C. lumsdenii . As we follow Szczerbak and Golubev (1986, 1996) in their taxonomic concept, we summarize all localities known as C. lumsdenii and C. maynardi together under the specific subspecies lumsdenii of C. eversmanni .