Darevskia steineri
Description
Darevskia steineri (Eiselt, 1995)
HOLOTYPE. NMW 33715.
TYPE LOCALITY. Gole-Loweh near Minou-dasht, Golestan Prov. Iran.
DISTRIBUTION. Endemic to Iran.
DISTRIBUTION IN IRAN. Fig. 88. A small area in Golestan Prov. It was known only from the type specimens until Rastegar-Pouyani et al. (2013b) discovered a population about 35 km NE from the type locality.
HABITAT. Darevskia steineri climbs trees and rocks in dense Hyrcanian forests consisting of
Acer spp., Alnus serrulata, Glechoma hederacea, Philodendron bipinnatifidum, Quercus castaneifolia, Rubus fruticosus, and Ruscus hurcanus (Hosseinian Yousefkhani et al. 2013g; Rastegar-Pouyani et al. 2013b).
REFERENCES. Eiselt (1995); Anderson (1999); Arnold et al. (2007); Ahmadzadeh et al. (2013a); Hosseinian Yousefkhani et al. (2013c); Rastegar-Pouyani et al. (2013b).
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Additional details
Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Scientific name authorship
- Eiselt
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Chordata
- Order
- Squamata
- Family
- Lacertidae
- Genus
- Darevskia
- Species
- steineri
- Taxon rank
- species
- Type status
- holotype
- Taxonomic concept label
- Darevskia steineri (Eiselt, 1995) sec. Šmíd, Moravec, Kodym, Kratochvíl, Yousefkhani, Rastegar-Pouyani & Frynta, 2014
References
- Eiselt, J. (1995) Ein Beitrag zur Kenntnis der Archaeolacerten (sensu Mehely) des Iran. Herpetozoa, 8, 59 - 72.
- Rastegar-Pouyani, E., Rastegar-Pouyani, N., Hosseinian Yousefkhani, S. S. & Arab, M. (2013 b) Rediscovery of Darevskia steineri (Eiselt, 1995) (Sauria: Lacertidae) from Iran. Russian Journal of Herpetology, 20, 1 - 3.
- Hosseinian Yousefkhani, S. S., Rastegar-Pouyani, E., Rastegar-Pouyani, N., Masroor, R. & Smid, J. (2013 g) Modelling the potential distribution of Mesalina watsonana (Stoliczka, 1872) (Reptilia: Lacertidae) on the Iranian Plateau. Zoology in the Middle East, 59, 220 - 228. http: // dx. doi. org / 10.1080 / 09397140.2013.841429
- 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.
- 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
- Hosseinian Yousefkhani, S. S., Rastegar-Pouyani, N., Rastegar-Pouyani, E. & Arab, M. (2013 c) A contribution to the knowledge of Darevskia steineri (Eiselt, 1995) habitat at Loveh Waterfall, Northeastern Iran. Available from: http: // www. lacerta. de / AS / Bibliografie / BIB _ 7026. pdf (accessed 8 July 2014)