Darevskia praticola ( Eversmann, 1834 )

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 : 31

Darevskia praticola ( Eversmann, 1834)

TYPE. ZIL, collection number unknown ( Uetz 2013); Holotype SNP No. 1473 (5) (D. p. hyrcanica).

TYPE LOCALITY. Nardzana [= Kislowodsk, S Russia fide Tuniyev et al. (2011)] .

DISTRIBUTION. A species with a disjunct range. Darevskia p. pontica (Lantz & Cyrén) (regarded a full species by Tuniyev et al. (2011) and Sos et al. (2012)) occurs in the Balkans, the western part of the range. South Russia and W Transcaucasia are inhabited by the nominotypical subspecies. Populations from SE Azerbaijan and N Iran were assigned to a distinct subspecies, D. p. hyrcanica Tuniyev, Doronin, Kidov & Tuniyev, by Tuniyev et al. (2011).

DISTRIBUTION IN IRAN. Fig. 85 . Confined to a relatively small region by the SW Caspian Sea (Ardabil and Gilan Prov.) .

HABITAT. Open places in forested areas (pastures and hayfields) close to water reservoirs and places with moist soil ( Tuniyev et al. 2011).

REFERENCES. Anderson (1999); Arnold et al. (2007); Tuniyev et al. (2011).

Figures

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