Pseudocerastes urarachnoides Bostanchi, Anderson, Kami & Papenfuss, 2006

Eskandarzadeh, Naeimeh, Rastegar-Pouyani, Nasrullah, Rastegar-Pouyani, Eskandar, Fathinia, Behzad, Bahmani, Zahed, Hamidi, Kordiyeh & Gholamifard, Ali, 2018, Annotated checklist of the endemic Tetrapoda species of Iran, Zoosystema 40 (24), pp. 507-537 : 526

Pseudocerastes urarachnoides Bostanchi, Anderson, Kami & Papenfuss, 2006

Pseudocerastes urarachnoides Bostanchi, Anderson, Kami & Papenfuss, 2006: 446 .

COMMON NAME. — Iranian Spider-tailed Viper.

HOLOTYPE. — FMNH 170929 .

TYPE LOCALITY. — 70 km South West of Ilam, probably on road to Amirabad and Mehran, Ilam Province ( Bostanchi et al. 2006) .

DISTRIBUTION. — Ilam, Kermanshah and Khuzestan Provinces in West and South West of Iran ( Fathinia et al. 2009) .

HABITAT. — Primarily in limestone sediments occurring in the Provinces with recently-known narrow penetration into rocky habitats of the Zagros Mountains ( Fathinia et al. 2014).

IUCN. — Data deficient.

REFERENCES. — Bostanchi et al. (2006); Fathinia et al. (2009); Fathinia (2014).

REMARK

Based on molecular data the Iranian Spider-tailed viper is more closely related to P. persicus (Duméril, Bibron & Duméril, 1854) than to P. fieldi Schmidt, 1930 ( Fathinia 2014) .

Class AVES Linnaeus, 1758 Order PASSERIFORMES Linnaeus, 1758 Family CORVIDAE Vigors, 1825 Genus Podoces Fischer Von Waldheim, 1821