Phrynocephalus arabicus Anderson, 1894

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 : 10

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scientific name	Phrynocephalus arabicus Anderson, 1894
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SYNTYPES. BMNH 1946.8 .28.33 (ex. BMNH 97.3.11.51), BMNH 1946.8 .28.34 (ex. BMNH 97.3.11.52).

TYPE LOCALITY. Plateau of the Hadramut [= Hadramaut, Yemen].

DISTRIBUTION. Widely distributed in the Arabian Peninsula, extends northward to S Jordan ( Wittenberg 1992), Iraq and marginally SW Iran.

DISTRIBUTION IN IRAN. Fig. 13 View FIGURES 8–13. 8 . Khuzestan Prov.

HABITAT. Fine, windblown sand, sloping sand between mounds of vegetation and foot of large dunes. If threatened, it buries itself rapidly by lateral body oscillations.

REMARKS. Observations of P. arabicus in Oman showed that wherever suitable habitat appears this species can reach very high population densities (pers. obs.). There are no data available regarding the biology and natural history of this species in Iran.

REFERENCES. Anderson (1999).

References

Anderson, J. (1894) On two new species of agamoid lizards from the Hadramut, south eastern Arabia. Annals and Magazine of Natural History, Series 6, 14, 376 - 378. http: // dx. doi. org / 10.1080 / 00222939408677818

Anderson, S. C. (1999) The lizards of Iran. Society for the Study of Amphibians and Reptiles, Oxford, Ohio, 442 pp.

Wittenberg, J. (1992) First record of Arabian toad-head agamid (Phrynocephalus arabicus) in Jordan. Zoology in the Middle East, 7, 59 - 64. http: // dx. doi. org / 10.1080 / 09397140.1992.10637625