Phrynocephalus Kaup, 1825

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 : 9-10

Phrynocephalus Kaup, 1825

Phrynocephalus ananjevae Melnikov, Melnikova, Nazarov & Rajabizadeh, 2013

HOLOTYPE. ZISP 10256.1 .

TYPE LOCALITY. Qahferokh, vicinity of Farokhshahr, Chahar Mahal and Bakhtiari Prov., Iran.

DISTRIBUTION. Endemic to Iran.

DISTRIBUTION IN IRAN. Fig. 12 . With certainty known only from the type locality and Abadeh (Fars Prov.), but populations of P. persicus previously reported from adjacent areas may also represent this species .

HABITAT. Not given in the original description nor by Nikolsky (1907), who collected the type series.

REMARKS. The existence of this species was first discovered by Melnikov et al. (2008) in their genetic study of P. persicus and P. helioscopus .

REFERENCES. Melnikov et al. (2008, 2013).

Figures

FIGURES 8–13. 8. Laudakia erythrogaster. 9. Laudakia melanura. 10. Laudakia microlepis. 11. Laudakia nupta. Blue square denotes the type locality for L. n. fusca. 12. Phrynocephalus ananjevae. 13. Phrynocephalus arabicus.