Mediodactylus heterocercum (Blanford, 1874)

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 : 21

Mediodactylus heterocercum (Blanford, 1874)

LECTOTYPE. TZM R2532, designated by Szczerbak & Golubev (1986).

TYPE LOCALITY. “ Hamadán in Persia occidentali” [= Hamadan, Hamadan Prov., Iran] .

DISTRIBUTION. Turkey, Syria, Iraq, Iran.

DISTRIBUTION IN IRAN. Fig. 49 . West of the Zagros, most records are from Ilam, Lorestan, Kermanshah, and Hamadan Prov. There is an isolated record from Persepolis (Fars Prov.) doubted by many authors ( Szczerbak & Golubev 1996; Anderson 1999; Sindaco & Jeremčenko 2008), but latest findings confirm the presence of M. heterocercum also in Esfahan Prov. ( Rastegar-Pouyani et al. 2009a) and make this record more plausible. The Iranian part of the species range is occupied by the nominotypical subspecies; Turkey, Syria, and Iraq are inhabited by M. h. mardinensis Mertens.

HABITAT. Occurs on boulders or under stones in rocky areas but also on walls of both abandoned and inhabited buildings.

REFERENCES. Szczerbak & Golubev (1986, 1996); Anderson (1999); Fathinia et al. (2009); Rastegar-Pouyani et al. (2009a); Rösler et al. (2012).

Figures

FIGURES 44–49. 44. Hemidactylus flaviviridis. 45. Hemidactylus persicus. 46. Hemidactylus robustus. Question marks indicate dubious data or specimens determined as H. turcicus. 47. Hemidactylus romeshkanicus. 48. Mediodactylus aspratilis. 49. Mediodactylus heterocercum.