Pseudopus Merrem, 1820

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 : 13-14

Pseudopus Merrem, 1820

Pseudopus apodus ( Pallas, 1775)

TYPE. Not located ( Anderson 1999).

TYPE LOCALITY. Naryn Steppe on the north coast of the Caspian Sea, Russia . This locality seemed unlikely to Obst (1978), who made a correction to the region of the Terek River , Russia .

DISTRIBUTION. The Balkans, Turkey, Levant south to Israel and Jordan, Iraq, Transcaucasia, N and W Iran, Turkmenistan, N Afghanistan, Uzbekistan, Kyrgyzstan, S Kazakhstan; an isolated range on the northern coast of the Black Sea.

DISTRIBUTION IN IRAN. Fig. 25 . From NW Iran by the Turkish borders through the Caspian region to the Kopet Dagh; a single record from the central Zagros.

HABITAT. Open grassy habitats, near streams and in the Hyrcanian forests ( Anderson 1999; Ahmadzadeh et al. 2008). The latter authors observed P. apodus in a pond during a sunny day.

REMARKS. A very outlying record (FMNH 69297) by Schmidt (1955) from Istgah-e Bisheh [Bisheh-Porem] (Lorestan Prov.) situated about 390 km from the closest Caspian localities together with records from adjacent Iraq ( Reed & Marx 1959) indicates a more continuous distribution of P. apodus in the western Zagros area.

REFERENCES. Obst (1978); Anderson (1999); Ahmadzadeh et al. (2008).

Figures

FIGURES 20–25. 20. Trapelus agilis. Blue square denotes the type locality for T. a. khuzistanensis, dashed line delimits approximate boundary between this and the nominotypical subspecies. 21. Trapelus persicus. 22. Trapelus ruderatus. 23. Trapelus sanguinolentus. 24. Anguis colchica. 25. Pseudopus apodus.