Darevskia steineri ( Eiselt, 1995 )

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 : 32

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Darevskia steineri ( Eiselt, 1995)

HOLOTYPE. NMW 33715.

TYPE LOCALITY. Gole-Loweh near Minou-dasht, Golestan Prov. Iran.

DISTRIBUTION. Endemic to Iran.

DISTRIBUTION IN IRAN. Fig. 88. A View FIGURES 86–91. 86 small area in Golestan Prov. It was known only from the type specimens until Rastegar-Pouyani et al. (2013b) discovered a population about 35 km NE from the type locality .

HABITAT. Darevskia steineri climbs trees and rocks in dense Hyrcanian forests consisting of

Acer spp. , Alnus serrulata View in CoL , Glechoma hederacea View in CoL , Philodendron bipinnatifidum View in CoL , Quercus castaneifolia View in CoL , Rubus fruticosus View in CoL , and Ruscus hurcanus ( Hosseinian Yousefkhani et al. 2013g; Rastegar-Pouyani et al. 2013b).

REFERENCES. Eiselt (1995); Anderson (1999); Arnold et al. (2007); Ahmadzadeh et al. (2013a); Hosseinian Yousefkhani et al. (2013c); Rastegar-Pouyani et al. (2013b).

References

Ahmadzadeh, F., Flecks, M., Carretero, M. A., Mozaffari, O., Bohme, W., Harris, D. J., Freitas, S. & Rodder, D. (2013 a) Cryptic Speciation Patterns in Iranian Rock Lizards Uncovered by Integrative Taxonomy. PLoS ONE, 8, e 80563. http: // dx. doi. org / 10.1371 / journal. pone. 0080563

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

Arnold, E. N., Arribas, O. & Carranza, S. (2007) Systematics of the Palaearctic and Oriental lizard tribe Lacertini (Squamata: Lacertidae: Lacertinae), with descriptions of eight new genera. Zootaxa, 1430, 1 - 86.

Eiselt, J. (1995) Ein Beitrag zur Kenntnis der Archaeolacerten (sensu Mehely) des Iran. Herpetozoa, 8, 59 - 72.

Hosseinian Yousefkhani, S. S., Rastegar-Pouyani, E., Rastegar-Pouyani, N., Masroor, R. & Smid, J. (2013 g) Modelling the potential distribution of Mesalina watsonana (Stoliczka, 1872) (Reptilia: Lacertidae) on the Iranian Plateau. Zoology in the Middle East, 59, 220 - 228. http: // dx. doi. org / 10.1080 / 09397140.2013.841429

Hosseinian Yousefkhani, S. S., Rastegar-Pouyani, N., Rastegar-Pouyani, E. & Arab, M. (2013 c) A contribution to the knowledge of Darevskia steineri (Eiselt, 1995) habitat at Loveh Waterfall, Northeastern Iran. Available from: http: // www. lacerta. de / AS / Bibliografie / BIB _ 7026. pdf (accessed 8 July 2014)

Rastegar-Pouyani, E., Rastegar-Pouyani, N., Hosseinian Yousefkhani, S. S. & Arab, M. (2013 b) Rediscovery of Darevskia steineri (Eiselt, 1995) (Sauria: Lacertidae) from Iran. Russian Journal of Herpetology, 20, 1 - 3.

Figures

FIGURES 86–91. 86. Darevskia raddei. Red symbols represent records of D. r. raddei, blue of D. r. chaldoranensis and blue square denotes its type locality. 87. Darevskia schaekeli. 88. Darevskia steineri. 89. Eremias acutirostris. 90. Eremias andersoni. 91. Eremias arguta.