Trapelus persicus ( Blanford, 1881 )

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 : 12

Trapelus persicus ( Blanford, 1881)

SYNTYPES. BMNH 1946.8 .11.30 (ex. BMNH 79.8.15.43), BMNH 1946.8.11.39-42 (ex. BMNH 79.8.15.39-42).

TYPE LOCALITY. Dehbid and Kazerun, Fars Prov., Iran.

DISTRIBUTION. Jordan, Syria, Iraq, NE Saudi Arabia, SW Iran.

DISTRIBUTION IN IRAN. Fig. 21 . Most of the western provinces in the Mesopotamian Plain and along the Zagros range up to western Kerman and Hormozgan Prov.

HABITAT. Sandy areas, on sand dune foothills and near shrubs where they seek refuge ( Anderson 1999).

REMARKS. Rastegar-Pouyani (2000) synonymized T. persicus with T. ruderatus , however this change was rejected by Ananjeva et al. (2013). The distribution of T. persicus overlaps partially with T. ruderatus in Bushehr, Fars, Esfahan, and Ilam Prov. (Fathinia & Rastegar-Pouyani 2011).

REFERENCES. Rastegar-Pouyani (1998a, 2000); Anderson (1999); Fathinia & Rastegar-Pouyani (2011); Fathinia et al. (2011b); Ananjeva et al. (2013).

Figures

FIGURES 20–25. 20. Trapelus agilis. Blue square denotes the type locality for T. a. khuzistanensis, dashed line delimits approximate boundary between this and the nominotypical subspecies. 21. Trapelus persicus. 22. Trapelus ruderatus. 23. Trapelus sanguinolentus. 24. Anguis colchica. 25. Pseudopus apodus.