Trachylepis vittata ( Olivier, 1804 )

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

Trachylepis vittata ( Olivier, 1804)

HOLOTYPE. MNHN 197 .

TYPE LOCALITY. Sands W of Rosetta [Rashid], Egypt.

DISTRIBUTION. Mediterranean coast of N Africa from Algeria to Egypt, through the Levant and Anatolia to western Iran.

DISTRIBUTION IN IRAN. Fig. 141 . Scattered records from Kermanshah and Ilam Prov., an isolated single record from Mt. Damavand , Mazandaran Prov. Iran represents the eastern margin of the species distribution .

HABITAT. Dry stony slopes with annual grassy vegetation ( Fathinia et al. 2009). Outside Iran reported from a wide variety of biotopes on stony or sandy soil from palm oases, field and road margins, or vegetated rocky slopes to places nearly devoid of any vegetation ( Schleich et al. 1996).

REMARKS. Trachylepis vittata and T. septemtaeniata were found sympatric in Ilam Prov. ( Fathinia et al. 2009).

REFERENCES. Anderson (1999); Fathinia et al. (2009); Fattahi et al. (2013, 2014); Rastegar-Pouyani et al. (2013d).

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.