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Asaccus kermanshahensis Rastegar-Pouyani 1996

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Asaccus kermanshahensis Rastegar-Pouyani, 1996

HOLOTYPE. TUZM 164 R (field number).

TYPE LOCALITY. 40 km NE Kermanshah, Mianrahan region, Kermanshah Prov., Iran.

DISTRIBUTION. Endemic to Iran.

DISTRIBUTION IN IRAN. Fig. 122. Known from the type locality and one additional locality reported herein.

HABITAT. The types were collected inside a small cave in a very deep fault-valley in the Zagros. The CUP material was collected near Bisotun [Bistoon] on the Zagros foothills covered with scattered boulders at the altitude of 1400 m. REFERENCES. Rastegar-Pouyani (1996, 2006); Anderson (1999).

Notes

Published as part of 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, pp. 1-97 in Zootaxa 3855 (1) on page 42, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3855.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/4929701

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References

  • Rastegar-Pouyani, N. (1996) A new species of Asaccus from the Zagros Mountains, Kermenshahan province, Western Iran. Russian Journal of Herpetology, 3, 11 - 17.
  • Anderson, S. C. (1999) The lizards of Iran. Society for the Study of Amphibians and Reptiles, Oxford, Ohio, 442 pp.