Phrynocephalus mystaceus
Description
Phrynocephalus mystaceus (Pallas, 1776)
NEOTYPE. ZISP 8735.1, designated by Barabanov & Ananjeva (2007).
TYPE LOCALITY. Originally “arenosis Naryn et deserti Comani” (Pallas 1776); restricted to Naryn Steppe on the north coast of the Caspian Sea by Mertens & Müller (1928); given as Ryn Peski (Ryn Sands), Uralskaya Region, north-western Kazakhstan by Barabanov & Ananjeva (2007).
DISTRIBUTION. Its global distribution resembles that of P. helioscopus. SE European Russia N of the Caucasus, Kazakhstan, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, Tajikistan, Kyrgyzstan, NW China, south to Afghanistan and NE Iran.
DISTRIBUTION IN IRAN. Fig. 16. South Khorasan, Khorasan Razavi and Semnan Prov.
HABITAT. Sand dunes, Anderson (1999) found P. mystaceus associated with Tamarix and other psammophilous shrubs.
REFERENCES. Anderson (1999); Khan (1999); Barabanov & Ananjeva (2007); Hosseinian Yousefkhani & Rastegar-Pouyani (2013a); Khani et al. (2013), Molavi et al. (2014).
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Additional details
Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Collection code
- ZISP
- Family
- Agamidae
- Genus
- Phrynocephalus
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Material sample ID
- ZISP 8735.1
- Order
- Squamata
- Phylum
- Chordata
- Scientific name authorship
- Pallas
- Species
- mystaceus
- Taxon rank
- species
- Type status
- neotype
- Taxonomic concept label
- Phrynocephalus mystaceus (Pallas, 1776) sec. Šmíd, Moravec, Kodym, Kratochvíl, Yousefkhani, Rastegar-Pouyani & Frynta, 2014
References
- Pallas, P. S. (1776) Reise durch verschiedene Provinzen des Russischen Reichs. Dritter Theil. Vom Jahr 1772 und 1773. Kaiserlichen Akademie der Wissenschaften, St. Petersburg, 454 pp.
- Barabanov, A. V. & Ananjeva, N. B. (2007) Catalogue of the available scientific species-group names for lizards of the genus Phrynocephalus Kaup, 1825 (Reptilia, Sauria, Agamidae). Zootaxa, 1399, 1 - 56.
- Mertens, R. & Muller, L. (1928) Liste der Amphibien und Reptilien Europas. Abhandlungen der Senckenbergischen Naturfoschenden Gesellschaft, 41, 1 - 62.
- Anderson, S. C. (1999) The lizards of Iran. Society for the Study of Amphibians and Reptiles, Oxford, Ohio, 442 pp.
- Khan, M. S. (1999) A checklist and key to the Phrynocephalid lizards of Pakistan, with ethnological notes. Pakistan Journal of Zoology, 31, 17 - 24.
- Hosseinian Yousefkhani, S. S. & Rastegar-Pouyani, E. (2013 a) Severe conditions on Eremias intermedia (Strauch, 1876) and Eremias lineolata (Nikolsky, 1896) (Sauria: Lacertidae) in Sarakhs, Northeastern Iran. Available from: http: // www. lacerta. de / AS / Bibliografie / BIB _ 6935. pdf (accessed 8 July 2014)
- Khani, A., Yousefi, M., Sheykhi, S., Sheykhi, A., Hosseinian Yousefkhani, S. S. & Rastegar-Pouyani, E. (2013) New record of the gecko Crossobamon eversmanni lumsdeni (Boulenger, 1887) from Parvand Protected Area, Khorasan Razavi province, in eastern Iran. Herpetology Notes, 6, 101 - 102.
- Molavi, F., Mohammadian-kalat, T., Kiabi, B. H., Kami, H. G. & Yazdanpanahi, M. (2014) New distribution record of Phrynocephalus mystaceus Pallas 1776 (Sauria: Agamidae) from Iran. Check List, 10 (2), 450 - 452.