Darevskia raddei ( Boettger, 1892 )

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 : 31

Darevskia raddei ( Boettger, 1892)

LECTOTYPE. SMF 12054, designated by Mertens (1967) ; Holotype RUZM- LL70.1 ( D. r. chaldoranensis ) ; Holotype NMW 32999 ( D. r. vanensis ) .

TYPE LOCALITY. “Njuwady im mittleren Araxesthal” [= Nyuvadi, Armenia].

DISTRIBUTION. Transcaucasia south of the Grater Caucasus range, E Turkey, NW Iran.

DISTRIBUTION IN IRAN. Fig. 86 . The NW projection of the country (West Azerbaijan, East Azerbaijan, Ardabil, Zanjan, and Gilan Prov.). There are two subspecies occurring in this relatively small area: the nominotypical one in the eastern part of the range and D. r. chaldoranensis Rastegar-Pouyani, Karamiani, Oraei, Khosrawani & Rastegar-Pouyani in the west .

HABITAT. Various rocky habitats as barren rocks, rocky river banks, stony habitats in forest and mountain steppes, ruins, and stone walls.

REMARKS. Although Anderson (1999) tentatively assigned the populations north of Lake Urmia [Urumiyeh] to D. r. vanensis (Eiselt, Schmidtler & Darevsky) , Rastegar-Pouyani et al. (2011b) re-assigned them to D. r. chaldoranensis .

REFERENCES. Eiselt et al. (1993); Schmidtler et al. (1994); Eiselt (1995); Anderson (1999); Fu et al. (2000); Arnold et al. (2007); Rastegar-Pouyani et al. (2011b); Dehghani et al. (2014a,b).

Figures

FIGURES 86–91. 86. Darevskia raddei. Red symbols represent records of D. r. raddei, blue of D. r. chaldoranensis and blue square denotes its type locality. 87. Darevskia schaekeli. 88. Darevskia steineri. 89. Eremias acutirostris. 90. Eremias andersoni. 91. Eremias arguta.