Darevskia steineri ( Eiselt, 1995 )

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 : 32

Darevskia steineri ( Eiselt, 1995)

HOLOTYPE. NMW 33715.

TYPE LOCALITY. Gole-Loweh near Minou-dasht, Golestan Prov. Iran.

DISTRIBUTION. Endemic to Iran.

DISTRIBUTION IN IRAN. Fig. 88. A small area in Golestan Prov. It was known only from the type specimens until Rastegar-Pouyani et al. (2013b) discovered a population about 35 km NE from the type locality .

HABITAT. Darevskia steineri climbs trees and rocks in dense Hyrcanian forests consisting of

Acer spp. , Alnus serrulata , Glechoma hederacea , Philodendron bipinnatifidum , Quercus castaneifolia , Rubus fruticosus , and Ruscus hurcanus ( Hosseinian Yousefkhani et al. 2013g; Rastegar-Pouyani et al. 2013b).

REFERENCES. Eiselt (1995); Anderson (1999); Arnold et al. (2007); Ahmadzadeh et al. (2013a); Hosseinian Yousefkhani et al. (2013c); Rastegar-Pouyani et al. (2013b).

Figures

FIGURES 86–91. 86. Darevskia raddei. Red symbols represent records of D. r. raddei, blue of D. r. chaldoranensis and blue square denotes its type locality. 87. Darevskia schaekeli. 88. Darevskia steineri. 89. Eremias acutirostris. 90. Eremias andersoni. 91. Eremias arguta.