Teratoscincus microlepis Nikolsky, 1899

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 : 49

Teratoscincus microlepis Nikolsky, 1899

HOLOTYPE. ZIL 9164.

TYPE LOCALITY. “ Duz-ab in Kirmano orientali”; placed between Dobaz and Zahedan, Sistan and Baluchistan Prov., Iran by Szczerbak & Golubev (1986), but a place named Dubaz is situated in Baluchistan, Pakistan, not far from the border with Iran.

DISTRIBUTION. SE Iran, S Afghanistan, W Pakistan.

DISTRIBUTION IN IRAN. Fig. 145 . Kerman and Sistan and Baluchistan Prov.

HABITAT. Loose sandy soil. Reported also on saline saturated soils with a salt crust (Zarudny ex. Szczerbak & Golubev 1996).

REMARKS. Teratoscincus microlepis is a basal lineage of the genus. It is believed that it became separated as a result of the uplift of the Hindu Kush about 20 Mya ( Macey et al. 1999, 2005).

REFERENCES. Minton (1966); Anderson (1993, 1999); Szczerbak & Golubev (1996); Macey et al. (1999, 2005); Khan (2006).

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.