Eublepharis turcmenicus Darevsky, 1977

HOLOTYPE. ZIL 10103.

TYPE LOCALITY. Bakharden, Turkmenistan.

DISTRIBUTION. Slopes of the Kopet Dagh in Turkmenistan, N Iran.

DISTRIBUTION IN IRAN. Fig. 28. So far confirmed only from two localities by the Turkmen borders in North Khorasan and Khorasan Razavi Prov. (Darevsky 1978; Auer et al. 2008) .

HABITAT. Stony foothills with fragments of rocks. Vegetation cover dominated by Artemisia and Ephedra bushes. In Turkmenistan found up to 812 m of altitude (Szczerbak & Golubev 1996).

REMARKS. Second locality confirming the presence of this species in Iran was published relatively recently (Auer et al. 2008). It seems to be extremely rare in Iran.

REFERENCES. Darevsky (1978); Grismer (1988, 1991); Szczerbak & Golubev (1996); Anderson (1999); Rösler (1999); Auer et al. (2008).