Acanthodactylus boskianus ( Daudin, 1802 )

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 : 28

Acanthodactylus boskianus ( Daudin, 1802)

HOLOTYPE. MNHN 2762 ; Syntypes BMNH 1946.8.4.83–90 (A. b. euphraticus) .

TYPE LOCALITY. “L’Ile Saint-Dominigue”, in error according to Anderson (1999), who considers Mediterranean Egypt more probable.

DISTRIBUTION. An extensive range from Western Sahara and Mauritania through all North African countries to the Levant, S Turkey, Iraq, the whole Arabian Peninsula, and marginally W Iran.

DISTRIBUTION IN IRAN. Fig. 71 . Kermanshah, Ilam, Lorestan, Khuzestan Prov.

HABITAT. The first specimens reported from Iran were collected on sandy hills covered by Astragalus (RastegarPouyani 1999c). Hosseinian Yousefkhani et al. (2012b) reports habitat composed of gypsum and limestone deposits with deep crevices and holes. Associated with annual grasses, Amygdalus and Graminaceae ( Nazarov et al 2011).

REMARKS. The only available phylogenetic study which compared A. boskianus specimens from a larger part of its immense range suggests that the species is formed by several isolated evolutionary lineages ( Harris & Arnold 2000). The subspecies A. b. euphraticus Boulenger (type locality Ramadieh [= Ramadi, Al-Anbar Governorate, Iraq]) occurs in Iran .

REFERENCES. Salvador (1982); Arnold (1983); Anderson (1999); Rastegar-Pouyani (1999c); Harris & Arnold (2000); Wilms & Hulbert (2003); Nazarov et al. (2011); Gharzi et al. (2012).

Figures

FIGURES 68–73. 68. Tropiocolotes naybandensis. 69. Tropiocolotes sp. 70. Acanthodactylus blanfordii. 71. Acanthodactylus boskianus. 72. Acanthodactylus cantoris. 73. Acanthodactylus grandis.