Phrynocephalus scutellatus ( Olivier, 1807 )

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 : 11-12

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scientific name	Phrynocephalus scutellatus ( Olivier, 1807 )
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Phrynocephalus scutellatus ( Olivier, 1807)

HOLOTYPE. MNHN 6947 About MNHN .

TYPE LOCALITY. “Au pied de la montagne” [= Mt. Sophia , near Esfahan, Esfahan Prov., Iran] .

DISTRIBUTION. Iran, Afghanistan and Pakistan up to the Makran and Sulaiman Mountain ranges.

DISTRIBUTION IN IRAN. Fig. 19 View FIGURES 14–19. 14 . Widely distributed all over the central Iranian Plateau but not crossing the Zagros in the west and the Alborz in the north.

HABITAT. Flat gravel desert plains with very little vegetation. Avoids sandy or clayey substrates. Found up to 2300 m elevation ( Anderson 1999).

REMARKS. A single record from Kermanshah Prov. (USNM 69902) is most probably a misidentified animal. REFERENCES. Anderson (1999, 2000).

References

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

Anderson, S. C. (2000) Preliminary observations and comments on syntopic occurrence of lizards in Iran. Russian Journal of Herpetology, 7, 236 - 238.

Olivier, G. A. (1807) Voyage dans l'Empire Othoman I'Egypte et la Perse 5., Chez H. Agasse, Paris, 196 pp.

FIGURES 14–19. 14. Phrynocephalus helioscopus. 15. Phrynocephalus maculatus. 16. Phrynocephalus mystaceus. 17. Phrynocephalus ornatus. Blue square denotes the type locality for P. o. vindumi. 18. Phrynocephalus persicus. 19. Phrynocephalus scutellatus.