Agamura persica ( Duméril, 1856 )

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

Agamura persica ( Duméril, 1856)

SYNTYPES. MNHN 6761 ( 3 spec.) ( Anderson 1999), although no such number in the MNHN catalogue.

TYPE LOCALITY. Persia.

DISTRIBUTION. Iran, Afghanistan, Pakistan.

DISTRIBUTION IN IRAN. Fig. 29 . Throughout most of the Iranian Plateau W of the Zagros and S of the Alborz and Kopet Dagh; apparently absent from the central desert system; isolated records from coastal Hormozgan Prov.

HABITAT. Stony terrain, cliffs and rocky terraces, hillsides also barren plains and gravely alluvium with sparse shrubby vegetation ( Minton 1966; Anderson 1999)

REMARKS. Agamura is a monotypic genus phylogenetically close to Bunopus , Crossobamon , Cyrtopodion , and Tenuidactylus . Červenka et al. (2008) placed Agamura to a sister position with Cyrtopodion . Nevertheless, Bauer et al. (2013) recognized Bunopus and Crossobamon being closer to Agamura , and yet another study came up with Agamura as a sister genus to a clade consisting of all the other four above listed genera ( Gamble et al. 2012).

REFERENCES. Anderson (1999, 2000); Červenka et al. (2008); Gamble et al. (2012); Bauer et al. (2013).

Figures

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