Eremias papenfussi Mozaffari, Ahmadzadeh & Parham, 2011

HOLOTYPE. ZFMK 91701.

TYPE LOCALITY. Sooleghan Mountains, Alborz Mountain Range, Tehran Prov., Iran .

DISTRIBUTION. Endemic to Iran.

DISTRIBUTION IN IRAN. Fig. 102. Known only from two nearby localities where the holotype and paratypes were collected .

HABITAT. Mild rocky slopes with vegetation dominated by Amygdalus, Astragalus, and annual grass.

REMARKS. Although E. papenfussi is known from a very restricted area, Mozaffari et al. (2011b) expected it to be distributed throughout the central Alborz based on habitat uniformity in this region.

REFERENCES. Mozaffari et al. (2011b).