Timon princeps 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 : 40-41

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.3855.1.1

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DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4929449

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https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03C387F2-FFAB-FF91-FF5B-497E5775FF79

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scientific name

Timon princeps Blanford, 1874
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Timon princeps Blanford, 1874

HOLOTYPE. ZSI 3351 .

TYPE LOCALITY. “ Persia meridionali” [= southern Iran]; the locality was more specified by Boulenger (1920) as “near Niriz [Neyriz], about 100 miles east of Shiraz, S. Persia ”.

DISTRIBUTION. Endemic to Iran.

DISTRIBUTION IN IRAN. Fig. 116 View FIGURES 116–121. 116 . From southern Kermanshah Prov. in a belt between the western Zagros hillsides and the Mesopotamian Plain to central Fars Prov.

HABITAT. Dry steppe hilly habitats with xerothermic vegetation ( Amygdalus , Pistacia ).

REMARKS. By separating T. kurdistanicus into a separate species T. princeps became endemic to the Zagros foothills in Iran.

REFERENCES. Eiselt (1968, 1969); Anderson (1999); Arnold et al. (2007); Ghaffari & Parsa (2007); Ahmadzadeh et al. (2012).

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Chordata

Class

Reptilia

Order

Squamata

Family

Lacertidae

Genus

Timon

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