Pristurus rupestris Blanford, 1874

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 : 48-49

Pristurus rupestris Blanford, 1874

TYPE. ZSI, collection number unknown ( Annandale 1905); Holotype ZMUC 3476 (Field No. 143) ( P. r. iranicus ). TYPE LOCALITY. Originally “insulae Kharg vel Karrack in sinu Persico, .. a Maskat in littore Arabico” [= Kharg Island, Persian Gulf and Muscat, Oman]; restricted by Schmidt (1952) to Muscat.

DISTRIBUTION. Along the Arabian coast from Jordan to Kuwait and Iran, present also in coastal Eritrea and Somalia.

DISTRIBUTION IN IRAN. Fig. 142 . Restricted to coastal areas along the Persian Gulf and Gulf of Oman (Bushehr, Fars, Hormozgan, and Sistan and Baluchistan Prov. ). The most inland record is only about 35 km from the sea shore .

HABITAT. A typical climber found on rocks, large boulders, tree trunks, but also houses, stone walls and ruins.

REMARKS. The subspecies P. r. iranicus Schmidt (type locality Bushehr, Bushehr Prov., Iran), whose diagnosis is based mostly on differences in coloration, is not widely accepted (see Anderson 1999, p. 177). Badiane et al. (2014) recovered P. r. iranicus nested within P. r. rupestris implying that the former is a younger synonym of the nominotypical form. However, the authors did not have material from the type locality of iranicus available and they refrained from making any taxonomic decisions. Based on phylogenetic analyses of morphological and osteological characters P. rupestris belongs to morphologically more advanced forms grouped in ‘the P. flavipunctatus assemblage’ ( Arnold 2009).

REFERENCES. Schmidt (1952); Anderson (1999); Arnold (2009); Gholamifard et al. (2009); Papenfuss et al. (2009); Badiane et al. (2014).

Teratoscincus Strauch, 1863

Teratoscincus bedriagai Nikolsky, 1899

LECTOTYPE. ZIL 9161, designated by Szczerbak & Golubev (1986).

TYPE LOCALITY. Originally “Zirkuch et Seistan in Persia orient” [Zirkuh and Sistan, E Iran]; restricted by Szczerbak & Golubev (1986) to “Hodji-i-du-Chagi” [= Khvajeh Dow Chahi, Khodji-i-du-Chagi, Hodji-do-Chahi], South Khorasan Prov., Iran.

DISTRIBUTION. Iran, W Afghanistan.

DISTRIBUTION IN IRAN. Fig. 143 . Deserts of the central and eastern Iranian Plateau south of the Alborz and Kopet Dagh and along the Afghan border.

HABITAT. Loose windblown sands with shrubby vegetation. (Zarudny ex. Szczerbak & Golubev 1996) observed this species on gravel soil with a thin layer of salt crust. Hojati et al. (2009) reports it from clayey and loamy soils near Tamarix bushes.

REFERENCES. Szczerbak & Golubev (1986, 1996); Anderson (1993, 1999); Hojati et al. (2009).

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.