Bunopus crassicauda Nikolsky, 1907

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 : 15

Bunopus crassicauda Nikolsky, 1907

LECTOTYPE. ZIL 10233, designated by Szczerbak & Golubev (1986).

TYPE LOCALITY. Restricted to Khara-Magommed-Abad by lectotype designation by Szczerbak & Golubev (1986); originally Kum [= Qom], Maljat-Abad and Khara-Magommed-Abad, Irak-Adschemi Prov. [today Esfahan Prov.], Iran ( Nikolsky 1907).

DISTRIBUTION. Endemic to Iran.

DISTRIBUTION IN IRAN. Fig. 30 . Central Iranian Plateau in the area around Tehran, Qom, Esfahan, Yazd, and Kerman; also S of the Kopet Dagh .

HABITAT. Cultivated alluvial plains, gravely and sandy areas with vegetation containing Alhagi, Artemisiam, Prosopis , and Tamarix ( Mozaffari et al. 2011a).

REMARKS. Bunopus crassicauda was confirmed to occur syntopically with B. tuberculatus in NE Iran ( Kamali & Mozaffari 2013).

REFERENCES. Szczerbak & Golubev (1986, 1996); Anderson (1999); Kamali & Mozaffari (2013).

Figures

FIGURES 26–31. 26. Eublepharis angramainyu. 27. Eublepharis macularius. 28. Eublepharis turcmenicus. 29. Agamura persica. 30. Bunopus crassicauda. 31. Bunopus tuberculatus.