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Darevskia defilippii

Description

Darevskia defilippii (Camerano, 1877)

SYNTYPES. MZUT R2713 (3 spec.), MZUT R2734 (3 spec.).

TYPE LOCALITY. Lar Valley, Damavand, Mazandaran Prov., Iran.

DISTRIBUTION. Endemic to Iran.

DISTRIBUTION IN IRAN. Fig. 82. Southern coast of the Caspian Sea on both the northern and southern slopes of the Alborz Mountains (Ardabil, Gilan, Zanjan, Qazvin, Mazandaran, and Tehran Prov.).

HABITAT. Hill slopes with loose scree and rocky outcrops and shrubby vegetation. Recorded from up to 3355 m of elevation.

REMARKS. As in the case of D. chlorogaster, the previously known distribution was split up into ranges of four independent and geographically non-overlapping species (D. kopetdaghica, D. schaekeli, D. steineri, and D. defilippii) after the revision of the D. defilippii complex by Ahmadzadeh et al. (2013a).

REFERENCES. Eiselt (1995); Anderson (1999); Arnold et al. (2007); Arribas (2012); Ahmadzadeh et al. (2013a); Yousefi et al. (2013).

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 pages 30-31, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3855.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/4929701

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References

  • Camerano, L. (1877) Considerazioni sul genere Lacerta LINN. e descrizione di due nuove specie. Atti della Reale Accademia delle scienze di Torino, 13, 79 - 98.
  • Ahmadzadeh, F., Flecks, M., Carretero, M. A., Mozaffari, O., Bohme, W., Harris, D. J., Freitas, S. & Rodder, D. (2013 a) Cryptic Speciation Patterns in Iranian Rock Lizards Uncovered by Integrative Taxonomy. PLoS ONE, 8, e 80563. http: // dx. doi. org / 10.1371 / journal. pone. 0080563
  • Eiselt, J. (1995) Ein Beitrag zur Kenntnis der Archaeolacerten (sensu Mehely) des Iran. Herpetozoa, 8, 59 - 72.
  • Anderson, S. C. (1999) The lizards of Iran. Society for the Study of Amphibians and Reptiles, Oxford, Ohio, 442 pp.
  • Arnold, E. N., Arribas, O. & Carranza, S. (2007) Systematics of the Palaearctic and Oriental lizard tribe Lacertini (Squamata: Lacertidae: Lacertinae), with descriptions of eight new genera. Zootaxa, 1430, 1 - 86.
  • Arribas, O. (2012) Osteology of Darevskia defilippi (Camerano, 1877) raises doubts: is it really a close relative of Darevskia raddei (Boettger, 1892)? Herpetozoa, 25, 72 - 74.
  • Yousefi, M., Khani, A., Eslahi, H. & Hosseinian Yousefkhani, S. S. (2013) Easternmost record of Darevskia defilippii (Camerano, 1877) from Qarchaqe Protected Area, Kopet Dagh Mountains, northeastern Iran. Available from: http: // www. lacerta. de / AS / Bibliografie / BIB _ 7401. pdf (Accessed 8 July 2014)