Stenodactylus Fitzinger, 1826

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 : 25

Stenodactylus Fitzinger, 1826

Stenodactylus affinis ( Murray, 1884)

SYNTYPES. BMNH 1946.8 .23.33 (ex. BMNH 84.7.25.1), BMNH 1946.8 .23.60 (ex. BMNH 87.9.22.2).

TYPE LOCALITY. Tanjistan, Persia [Tangestan, Bushehr Prov., Iran].

DISTRIBUTION. Iraq, Kuwait, Iran.

DISTRIBUTION IN IRAN. Fig. 62 . Restricted to the Mesopotamian Plain (Ilam, Khuzestan Prov.) and areas along the Persian Gulf coast (Bushehr and Hormozgan Prov.) .

HABITAT. The Iranian specimens were caught in “... a gravelled site on gypsum foothills with Alhagi camelorum vegetation” ( Fathinia et al. 2009), under stones in a cultivated field and on an unpaved road ( Anderson 1999).

REMARKS. The closest relatives of S. affinis are S. grandiceps from the Levant and S. slevini from the Arabian Peninsula ( Metallinou et al. 2012).

REFERENCES. Arnold (1980a); Anderson (1999); Torki (2010d); Metallinou et al. (2012); Hosseinian Yousefkhani et al. (2013b); Kamali (2013a).

Figures

FIGURES 62–67. 62. Stenodactylus affinis. 63. Stenodactylus arabicus. 64. Stenodactylus doriae. 65. Tenuidactylus caspius. 66. Tenuidactylus longipes. 67. Tenuidactylus turcmenicus.