Iranodon persicus (Eiselt & Steiner, 1970)

Batrachuperus persicus Eiselt & Steiner, 1970: 78 .

COMMON NAME. — Persian Mountain Salamander.

HOLOTYPE. — NHMW 19435: 4.

TYPE LOCALITY. — Talesh Moutains, Gilan Province.

DISTRIBUTION. — Known from the Talesh and Alborz Mountains of Iran, South East of Chalus, in Mazandaran Province and Delmadeh village, South East of Khalkhal, in Ardabil Province (Kami 2004; Ebrahimi et al. 2004). Ahmadzadeh et al. (2011a) collected a single specimen in Dasht-e-Daman Yeylagi, in Rezvan Shahr city of Gilan Province.

HABITAT. — Found in mountain streams (Ahmadzadeh & Kami 2009; Ahmadzadeh et al. 2011a).

IUCN. — Near threatened.

REFERENCES. — Eiselt & Steiner (1970); Ebrahimi et al. (2004); Kami (2004); Zhang et al. (2006); Ahmadzadeh & Kami (2009); Ahmadzadeh et al. (2011a).

REMARKS

Described as Batrachuperus persicus the species was transferred to Paradactylon according to molecular study (Zhang et al. 2006).

Family SALAMANDRIDAE Goldfuss, 1820 Subfamily PLEURODELINAE Tschudi, 1838

Genus Neurergus Cope, 1862