Iranolacerta brandtii ( de Filippi, 1863 )

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 : 37-38

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Iranolacerta brandtii ( de Filippi, 1863)

HOLOTYPE. MZUT R2702.

TYPE LOCALITY. Basminsk [= Basmenj], East Azerbaijan Prov. Iran.

DISTRIBUTION. NW Iran and probably southern Azerbaijan from where Boulenger (1920) provided a single record. DISTRIBUTION IN IRAN. Fig. 108 View FIGURES 104–109. 104 . NW of the country E of the Urmia Lake (East Azerbaijan, Kordestan, Ardabil, and Gilan Prov.). Isolated populations formerly treated as I. brandtii esfahanica (Nilson, Rastegar-Pouyani, Rastegar-Pouyani & Andrén) occur in Esfahan and Chahar Mahal and Bakhtiari Prov .

HABITAT. Dry stream gullies, farmland margins, sandy and clayey hillsides with predominant Euphorbia vegetation. The Esfahan populations inhabit alpine meadows at 3000 to 3200 m altitude ( Nilson et al. 2003).

REMARKS. Nilson et al. (2003) described the populations in the central Zagros isolated by a hiatus of about 500 km from the populations in NW Iran as a distinct subspecies, I. b. esfahanica. However, genetic study of all Iranian Iranolacerta taxa revealed that despite the large geographical gap, I. b. esfahanica is nested within I. b. brandtii and although not expressed explicitly by the authors themselves it should be considered its younger synonym ( Ahmadzadeh et al. 2013b).

REFERENCES. Lantz & Cyrén (1939); Böhme (1993); in den Bosch (1996); Anderson (1999); Olmo et al. (2001a,b); Nilson et al. (2003); Arnold et al. (2007); Rajabizadeh et al. (2010c); Rezazadeh et al. (2010); Hosseinian Yousefkhani et al. (2012d); Ahmadzadeh et al. (2013b).

References

Ahmadzadeh, F., Carretero, M. A., Rodder, D., Harris, D. J., Freitas, S. N., Perera, A. & Bohme, W. (2013 b) Inferring the effects of past climate fluctuations on the distribution pattern of Iranolacerta (Reptilia, Lacertidae): Evidence from mitochondrial DNA and species distribution models. Zoologischer Anzeiger - A Journal of Comparative Zoology, 252, 141 - 148. http: // dx. doi. org / 10.1016 / j. jcz. 2012.05.002

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.

Bohme, W. (1993) Hemipenial microornamentation in Lacerta brandtii de Filippi, 1863: falsification of a systematic hypothesis? Herpetozoa, 6, 141 - 143.

Boulenger, G. A. (1920) Monograph of the Lacertidae. I. Longmans, Green & Co. and British Museum (Natural History), 352 pp.

de Filippi F. (1863) Nuove o poco note specie di animali vertebrati raccolte in um viaggio in Persia nall'estate dell' anno 1862. Archivo Zoologico Anatomia Fisiologia Modena, 2 (15), 377 - 394.

Hosseinian Yousefkhani, S. S., Mohammadpour, A. & Eskandarzadeh, N. (2012 d) Remarks on the Iranolacerta brandtii brandtii (de Filippi, 1863) (Sauria: Lacertidae) habitat from the Varzeghan area, East Azerbaijan province. Available from: http: // lacerta. de / AS / Artikel. php? Article = 151 (accessed 8 July 2014)

in den Bosch, H. A. J. (1996) Op zoek naar de Perzische Hagedis (Lacerta brandtii). Lacerta, 54, 121 - 128. Available from: http: / / www. lacerta. nl / sites / default / files / artikelpdfs / Lacerta 54 - 04 - 121 - 128. pdf (accessed 8 July 2014)

Lantz, L. A. & Cyren, O. (1939) Contribution a la connaissance de Lacerta brandtii de Filippi et de Lacerta parva Boulenger. Bulletin de la Societe Zoologique de France, 64, 228 - 243.

Nilson, G., Rastegar-Pouyani, N., Rastegar-Pouyani, E. & Andren, C. (2003) Lacertas of south and central Zagros Mountains, Iran, with description of two new taxa. Russian Journal of Herpetology, 10, 11 - 24.

Olmo, E., Odierna, G., Capriglione, T. & In den Bosch, H. A. J. (2001 a) The karyology of Lacerta brandtii (Reptilia, Lacertidae). Folia Zoologica, 50, 193 - 196.

Rajabizadeh, M., Rastegar-Pouyani, N., Khosravani, A., Barani-Beiranvand, H., Faizi, H. & Oraei, H. (2010 c) New records of lacertid genera, Iranolacerta and Apathya (Sauria: Lacertidae) in Iran. Iranian Journal of Animal Biosystematics, 6, 21 - 32.

Rezazadeh, E., Kiabi, B. H. & Ahmadzadeh, F. (2010) Contribution to the knowledge of Iranolacerta brandtii de Filippi 1863 (Sauria: Lacertidae) from the northwest of Iran. Russian Journal of Herpetology, 17, 223 - 230.