Phrynocephalus Kaup, 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 : 9-10

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Phrynocephalus ananjevae Melnikov, Melnikova, Nazarov & Rajabizadeh, 2013

HOLOTYPE. ZISP 10256.1 View Materials .

TYPE LOCALITY. Qahferokh, vicinity of Farokhshahr, Chahar Mahal and Bakhtiari Prov., Iran.

DISTRIBUTION. Endemic to Iran.

DISTRIBUTION IN IRAN. Fig. 12 View FIGURES 8–13. 8 . With certainty known only from the type locality and Abadeh (Fars Prov.), but populations of P. persicus previously reported from adjacent areas may also represent this species .

HABITAT. Not given in the original description nor by Nikolsky (1907), who collected the type series.

REMARKS. The existence of this species was first discovered by Melnikov et al. (2008) in their genetic study of P. persicus and P. helioscopus .

REFERENCES. Melnikov et al. (2008, 2013).

References

Melnikov, D. A., Ananjeva, N. B., Agasyan, A. L. & Rajabizadeh, M. (2008) Historical background and taxonomic status of the Persian toad head agama, Phrynocephalus persicus de Filippi, 1863 and Horvath's sun watcher toad head agama Phrynocephalus helioscopus horvathi Mehely, 1894. In: Ananjeva, N. B., Danilov, I. G., Dunayev, E. A., Ishchenko, V. G., Lada, G. A., Litvinchuk, S. N., Orlova, V. F., Smirina, E. M., Tuniyev, B. S. & Khalikov, R. G. (Eds.), The problems of herpetology. Proceedings of the 3 th Meeting of the Nikolsky Herpetological Society 9 - 13 October 2006, Putschino, pp. 286 - 297.

Melnikov, D., Melnikova, E., Nazarov, R. & Rajabizadeh, M. (2013) Taxonomic revision of Phrynocephalus persicus de Filippi, 1863 complex with description of a new species from Zagros, southern Iran. Modern Herpetology, 2013, 34 - 46.

Nikolsky, A. M. (1907) Reptiles and Amphibians collected by N. A. Zarudny in Persia 1903 - 1904 [in Russian]. Annuaire Musee Zoologique de l'Academie Imperiale des Sciences de St. - Petersbourg, 10, 260 - 301.