Eurylepis taeniolatus Blyth, 1854

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 : 45

Eurylepis taeniolatus Blyth, 1854

HOLOTYPE. ZSI 2328 ; Holotype ZIK Re 18 No. 17660 (E. t. parthianicus) .

TYPE LOCALITY. Punjab Salt Range, Punjab, Pakistan .

DISTRIBUTION. A disjunct range with a large hiatus separating the western subspecies, E. t. arabicus Szczerbak (type locality near Al-Taiff [Taif], Saudi Arabia) occurring in SW Saudi Arabia and W Yemen from E. t. parthianicus Szczerbak (type locality Northern slope of central Kopet Dagh , Chuli [ Chuly ], 25 km W of Ashkhabad, Turkmenistan) in NE Iran, S Turkmenistan, Afghanistan, and Pakistan up to Indus valley and from the nominotypical subspecies from SE Pakistan and NW India. There is a single isolated record from Jordan ( Werner 1998) .

DISTRIBUTION IN IRAN. Fig. 131 . NE part of the country (Semnan, Khorasan Razavi Prov. )

HABITAT. Sandy and clayey habitats with shrubby or grassy vegetation. The lizard spends most of the time under stones, in litter and roots of bushes or burrowed in the substrate.

REMARKS. Further investigation with genetic methods involved is required to assess the status of the geographically remote Arabian subspecies with respect to the two other subspecies. Similarly, the status of E. poonaensis Sharma from India should be revised.

REFERENCES. Ivanov & Bogdanov (1975); Szczerbak (1990); Werner (1998); Anderson (1999).

Figures

FIGURES 128–133. 128. Ablepharus pannonicus. 129. Chalcides ocellatus. 130. Eumeces schneiderii. Red symbols represent records of E. s. princeps, blue of E. s. zarudnyi and blue square denotes its type locality, violet question mark indicates dubious data for E. blythianus. 131. Eurylepis taeniolatus. 132. Ophiomorus blanfordii. 133. Ophiomorus brevipes.