Darevskia defilippii ( Camerano, 1877 )

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 : 30-31

Darevskia defilippii ( Camerano, 1877)

SYNTYPES. MZUT R2713 (3 spec.), MZUT R2734 (3 spec.).

TYPE LOCALITY. Lar Valley, Damavand, Mazandaran Prov., Iran.

DISTRIBUTION. Endemic to Iran.

DISTRIBUTION IN IRAN. Fig. 82 . Southern coast of the Caspian Sea on both the northern and southern slopes of the Alborz Mountains (Ardabil, Gilan, Zanjan, Qazvin, Mazandaran, and Tehran Prov.) .

HABITAT. Hill slopes with loose scree and rocky outcrops and shrubby vegetation. Recorded from up to 3355 m of elevation.

REMARKS. As in the case of D. chlorogaster , the previously known distribution was split up into ranges of four independent and geographically non-overlapping species ( D. kopetdaghica , D. schaekeli , D. steineri , and D. defilippii ) after the revision of the D. defilippii complex by Ahmadzadeh et al. (2013a).

REFERENCES. Eiselt (1995); Anderson (1999); Arnold et al. (2007); Arribas (2012); Ahmadzadeh et al. (2013a); Yousefi et al. (2013).

Figures

FIGURES 80–85. 80. Darevskia caspica. 81. Darevskia chlorogaster. 82. Darevskia defilippii. 83. Darevskia kamii. 84. Darevskia kopetdaghica. 85. Darevskia praticola.