Mesalina brevirostris Blanford, 1874

SYNTYPES. BMNH 1946.8 .6.34 (ex. BMNH 80.11.10.40) and ZSI 3474; Holotype MCZ 56617 (M. b. fieldi) .

TYPE LOCALITY. “insula Tumb dicta sinus Persici, et ad Kulabagh in regione Punjab Indiae” [Tumb Island, Hormuz Strait, Persian Gulf and Kalabagh, Punjab, Pakistan]; restricted by Schmidt (1939) to Kalabagh, however, without designating lectotype .

DISTRIBUTION. The Sinai, Levant, Iraq, Kuwait, NE Saudi Arabia, UAE, coastal Iran, and Pakistan.

DISTRIBUTION IN IRAN. Fig. 112. The Mesopotamian Plain in Ilam and Khuzestan Prov., coastal Bushehr and Hormozgan Prov. including Persian Gulf islands and Sistan and Baluchistan Prov .

HABITAT. Sandy or silt-soil plains or foothills with scattered sparse vegetation.

REMARKS. The subspecies M. b. fieldi Haas & Werner (type locality Mahor Birinji, Khuzestan Prov.) occurs in the western part of the Iranian range.

REFERENCES. Schmidt (1939); Haas & Werner (1969); Anderson (1999); in den Bosch (2001); Moravec (2004); Mayer et al. (2006); Kapli et al. (2008); Heidari & Kami (2009); Kamali (2013c).