Eublepharis macularius ( Blyth, 1854 )

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 : 14

Eublepharis macularius ( Blyth, 1854)

HOLOTYPE. ZSI 6224 .

TYPE LOCALITY. Salt Range, Punjab, NW India.

DISTRIBUTION. NE India, Pakistan, SE Afghanistan, E Iran.

DISTRIBUTION IN IRAN. Fig. 27 . Eastern South Khorasan Prov., the only known locality needs to be verified (see below).

HABITAT. Clay-gravel soil covered by sand and abounding in bushes of Zygophyllum (Zarudny ex. Szczerbak & Golubev 1996).

REMARKS. The only Iranian record is based on two specimens collected by Zarudny, who assigned them superficially to E. macularius on the basis of tail morphology. Both specimens were lost before they could be deposited in the collections ( Anderson 1999). This record lies isolated by ca. 500 km W from the nearest confirmed locality of the species in Afghanistan ( Sindaco & Jeremčenko 2008). Because the vouchers do not exist it is impossible to decide whether they really belonged to E. macularius or to geographically similarly distant E. turcmenicus occurring in Turkmenistan.

REFERENCES. Anderson & Leviton (1966a); Grismer (1988); Szczerbak & Golubev (1996); Anderson (1999).

Figures

FIGURES 26–31. 26. Eublepharis angramainyu. 27. Eublepharis macularius. 28. Eublepharis turcmenicus. 29. Agamura persica. 30. Bunopus crassicauda. 31. Bunopus tuberculatus.