Trachylepis septemtaeniata ( Reuss, 1834 )

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 : 47-48

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Trachylepis septemtaeniata ( Reuss, 1834)

TYPE. Not located; Syntypes of T. s. transcaucasica in the ZIK collection, numbers unknown .

TYPE LOCALITY. “Massua, Abyssinien” [= Massawa , Eritrea] .

DISTRIBUTION. SE Anatolia, Transcaucasia, E Syria, Iraq, NE Arabian Peninsula, Iran, S Turkmenistan, E Afghanistan, and Eritrea.

DISTRIBUTION IN IRAN. Fig. 140 View FIGURES 140–145. 140 . Most of western Iran from the Iraqi and Turkey border regions up to Yazd (ca. 53° longitude) including the Zagros range. The distribution continues in the NE along the Kopet Dagh to Turkmenistan. Trachylepis s. transcaucasica (type locality Migri and Ordubat, Armenia) occurs from northern Khuzestan Prov. to the north and NE of the country, T. s. septemtaeniata is distributed in the Mesopotamian Plain in Khuzestan and south to Fars and Bushehr Prov. Nonetheless precise boundaries between the two subspecies are not known (the subspecies are therefore not distinguished in Fig. 140 View FIGURES 140–145. 140 ); particularly because of most authors still conventionally use the binomen T. aurata for referring to the Iranian specimens.

HABITAT. Various habitats from natural sites such as stony mountain foothills with shrubby vegetation, rocky outcrops, and grassy plains. Frequently encountered near human settlements in wall cracks of abandoned houses or under debris in dumping sites.

REMARKS. The type locality in Eritrea is situated 1500 km from the rest of the range and Arnold (1986a) assumes that the specimen must have been introduced there. Akhmedov & Szczerbak (1987) pointed out that the populations from the Kopet Dagh are morphologically different from T. s. transcaucasica and might bear the subspecific name affinis de Filippi.

REFERENCES. Akhmedov & Szczerbak (1987); Bauer (2003); Faizi & Rastegar-Pouyani (2006, 2007); Moravec et al. (2006); Rastegar-Pouyani & Faizi (2007); Fathinia et al. (2009); Faizi et al. (2010); Durmus et al. (2011); Güçlü et al. (2013).

References

Akhmedov, S. B. & Szczerbak, N. N. (1987) Geographic variation and intraspecific systematics of Mabuya aurata (Sauria, Scincidae). Vestnik Zoologii, 1987, 20 - 24. [in Russian]

Arnold, E. N. (1986 a) A key and annotated check-list to the lizards and amphisbaenians of Arabia. Fauna of Saudi Arabia, 8, 385 - 435.

Durmus, S. H., Kumlutas, Y., Ozdemir, A., Avci, A. & Ilgaz, C. (2011) Morphology, taxonomic status and distribution of Trachylepis aurata (Linnaeus, 1758) in southeast Anatolia. Herpetozoa, 24, 61 - 71.

Faizi, H., Rastegar-Pouyani, N., Rajabizadeh, M. & Heydari, N. (2010) Sexual dimorphism in Trachylepis aurata transcaucasica Chernov, 1926 (Reptilia: Scincidae) in the Zagros Mountains, western Iran. Iranian Journal of Animal Biosystematics, 6, 25 - 35.

Fathinia, B., Rastegar-Pouyani, N., Sampour, M., Bahrami, A. M. & Jaafari, G. (2009) The lizard fauna of the Ilam province, southwestern Iran. Iranian Journal of Animal Biosystematics, 5, 65 - 79.

Guclu, O., Candan, K., Kankilic, T., Kumlutas, Y., Durmus, S. H., Poulakakis, N. & Ilgaz, C. (2013) Phylogeny of Trachylepis sp. (Reptilia) from Turkey inferred from mtDNA sequences. Mitochondrial DNA, 1 - 8. http: // dx. doi. org / 10.3109 / 19401736.2013.814108

Moravec, J., Franzen, M. & Bohme, W. (2006) Notes on the taxonomy, nomenclature and distribution of the Trachylepis (formerly Mabuya) aurata (Linnaeus, 1758) complex. In: Vences, M., Kohler, J., Ziegler, T. & Bohme, W. (Eds.), Herpetologia Bonnensis II. Proceedings of the 13 th Congress of the Societas Europaea Herpetologica. Bonn, pp. 89 - 93.

Rastegar-Pouyani, N., Nilson, G. & Faizi, H. (2006) A new species of Asaccus (Sauria: Gekkonidae) from Kurdistan province, western Iran. Hamadryad, 30, 141 - 150.

Rastegar-Pouyani, N. & Faizi, H. (2007) Geographic variation in the skull morphology of Trachylepis aurata transcaucasica Chernov, 1926 (Sauria: Scincidae) in the Zagros Mountains, Western Iran. Zoology in the Middle East, 42, 67 - 74. http: // dx. doi. org / 10.1080 / 09397140.2007.10638247

Reuss, A. (1834) Zoologische Miscellen, Reptilien. Saurier. Batrachier. Museum Senckenbergianum, Frankfurt am Main, 134 pp.

Figures

FIGURES 140–145. 140. Trachylepis septemtaeniata. 141. Trachylepis vittata. 142. Pristurus rupestris. Blue square denotes the type locality for P. r. iranicus. 143. Teratoscincus bedriagai. 144. Teratoscincus keyserlingii. 145. Teratoscincus microlepis.