Anguidae, Gray, 1825

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 : 13

Anguidae

Anguis Linnaeus, 1758

Anguis colchica ( Nordmann, 1840)

SYNTYPES. Not located ( Anderson 1999); Holotype ZIS 4829 (A. c. orientalis).

TYPE LOCALITY. “Abasien” [= Kuban’ region, S Russia] and “Mingrelien” [= region in W Georgia]. DISTRIBUTION. E Europe and European Russia through E Balkans, N Turkey and Transcaucasia to N Iran. DISTRIBUTION IN IRAN. Fig. 24 . Along the Caspian coast, the distribution stretches eastwards up to the central Kopet Dagh. No record from the Caspian coast is more than 60 km inland from the shoreline; the species is there limited to the foothills and northern slopes of the Alborz.

HABITAT. Deciduous Hyrcanian forests in the Alborz, in or on the leaf litter on the ground, under stones and logs. REMARKS. Anguis colchica was assigned the status of full species by Gvoždík et al. (2010). In the same publication the Iranian populations were attributed to the subspecies A. c. orientalis Anderson.

REFERENCES. Anderson (1999); Gvoždík et al. (2010).

Figures

FIGURES 20–25. 20. Trapelus agilis. Blue square denotes the type locality for T. a. khuzistanensis, dashed line delimits approximate boundary between this and the nominotypical subspecies. 21. Trapelus persicus. 22. Trapelus ruderatus. 23. Trapelus sanguinolentus. 24. Anguis colchica. 25. Pseudopus apodus.