Acanthodactylus blanfordii Boulenger 1918
Description
Acanthodactylus blanfordii Boulenger, 1918
SYNTYPES. BMNH 1946.9.3.54–55, BMNH 1946.9.8.33–34, BMNH 1946.9.8.43–44.
TYPE LOCALITY. Originally “Perse et Béloutchistan”; syntypes from Bam and Jask [Iran] and Dasht and Mand [Pakistan], although Boulenger (1921) listed only Bam and Mand.
DISTRIBUTION. SE Iran, Afghanistan, Pakistan, and N Oman.
DISTRIBUTION IN IRAN. Fig. 70. Hormozgan, Kerman, and Sistan and Baluchistan Prov.
HABITAT. In Iran confined to lowland sandy habitats with scattered Acacia and Tamarix (Anderson 1999; Heidari & Kami 2009).
REMARKS. Both morphology and DNA data recover A. blanfordii as a sister species of A. schmidti (Arnold 1983; Harris & Arnold 2000).
REFERENCES. Salvador (1982); Arnold (1983); Anderson (1999); Rastegar-Pouyani et al. (2011a); Heidari et al. (2012a).
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Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Collection code
- BMNH
- Scientific name authorship
- Boulenger
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Chordata
- Order
- Squamata
- Family
- Lacertidae
- Genus
- Acanthodactylus
- Species
- blanfordii
- Taxon rank
- species
- Type status
- syntype
- Taxonomic concept label
- Acanthodactylus blanfordii Boulenger, 1918 sec. Šmíd, Moravec, Kodym, Kratochvíl, Yousefkhani, Rastegar-Pouyani & Frynta, 2014
References
- Boulenger, G. A. (1921) Monograph of the Lacertidae. II. Longmans, Green & Co. and British Museum (Natural History), 451 pp.
- Anderson, S. C. (1999) The lizards of Iran. Society for the Study of Amphibians and Reptiles, Oxford, Ohio, 442 pp.
- Heidari, N. & Kami, H. G. (2009) Lizards of the Gando Protected area in Sistan and Baluchestan Province, southeastern Iran. Iranian Journal of Animal Biosystematics, 5, 57 - 64.
- Arnold, E. N. (1983) Osteology, genitalia and the relationships of Acanthodactylus (Reptilia: Lacertidae). Bulletin of the British Museum (Zoology), 44, 291 - 339.
- Harris, D. J. & Arnold, E. N. (2000) Elucidation of the relationships of spiny-footed lizards, Acanthodactylus spp. (Reptilia: Lacertidae) using mitochondrial DNA sequence, with comments on their biogeography and evolution. Journal of Zoology, 252, 351 - 362. http: // dx. doi. org / 10.1111 / j. 1469 - 7998.2000. tb 00630. x
- Salvador, A. (1982) A revision of the lizards genus Acanthodactylus (Sauria: Lacertidae). Bonner zoologischen Monographien, 16, 1 - 167.
- Rastegar-Pouyani, N., Heydari, N. & Faizi, H. (2011 a) Analysis of geographic variation in four populations of Acanthodactylus blanfordi Boulenger, 1918 (Sauria: Lacertidae) from southern and southeastern Iran. Russian Journal of Herpetology, 18, 228 - 234.
- Heidari, N., Faizi, H. & Rastegar-Pouyani, N. (2012 a) Sexual dimorphism in Blanford's Fringe-toed Lizard Acanthodactylus blanfordi Boulenger, 1918 from Southern Iran. Zoology in the Middle East, 55, 35 - 40. http: // dx. doi. org / 10.1080 / 09397140.2012.10648915