Acanthodactylus micropholis 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 : 28-29

Acanthodactylus micropholis Blanford, 1874

SYNTYPES. BMNH 1946.9.3.71–72, ZMB 9333 , ZSI 5301 .

TYPE LOCALITY. Originally Gedrosia, Baluchistan; specified by Smith (1935) to Magas, Sistan and Baluchistan Prov., Iran.

DISTRIBUTION. SE Iran, W Pakistan.

DISTRIBUTION IN IRAN. Fig. 75 . Sistan and Baluchistan, Hormozgan Prov. So far only a single record from Kerman Prov. (specimen deposited in the Tehran museum, see Anderson (1999)) has been published. Nevertheless, it is very likely that the species distribution spans across this province continuously. Recently, Kamali (2013b) reported the first record of A. micropholis from Bushehr Prov. situated 480 km W of the previously confirmed westernmost locality.

HABITAT. Unlike most other members of the genus confined to sand, A. micropholis is in Iran mostly found on gravel or hard soil substrate with scattered shrubby vegetation. On the other hand, Pakistani populations inhabit sandy stream beds and canyons ( Minton 1966; Khan 2006).

REFERENCES. Salvador (1982); Arnold (1983); Anderson (1999); Harris & Arnold (2000); Kamali (2013b).

Figures

FIGURES 74–79. 74. Acanthodactylus khamirensis. 75. Acanthodactylus micropholis. 76. Acanthodactylus nilsoni. 77. Acanthodactylus schmidti. 78. Apathya cappadocica. Blue square denotes the type locality for A. c. urmiana. 79. Apathya yassujica.