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Varanus nesterovi
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Description
Varanus nesterovi BÖHME, EHRLICH, MILTO, ORLOV et SCHOLZ (2015: 44)
Holotype: ZISP 23300, male, “ Biare,” currently Byara Village, Muhafazat as Sulaymaniyah, Iraq (35°13'50'' N, 46°07'15'' E), 1086 m elevation”. Leg.: P. V. Nesterov, 8.VI.1914.
Paratype: ZISP 11752.1, female, “ Abu-naft River near Nawtkhana Village, Diyala, Iraq (approx. 34°06’26.9” N, 45°32’58.4” E).” Leg.: P. V. Nesterov, 19.IV.1914.
Remarks: Additional paratypes is USNM 160302 from “ 35 km E of Gachsaran, Khuzistan Province, Iran (30°12’ N, 50°47’ E), western foothills of Zagros Mts” and ZFMK 97199 (ex ZISP 11752.2) from “ Abu-naft River near Nawtkhana Village, Diyala, Iraq (approx. 34°06’26.9” N, 45°32’58.4” E).” (Böhme et al. 2015).
Notes
Published as part of Barabanov, Andrei & Milto, Konstantin, 2017, An annotated type catalogue of the anguid, dibamid, scincid and varanid lizards in the Department of Herpetology, Zoological Institute, Russian Academy of Sciences, St. Petersburg, Russia (Reptilia: Sauria: Anguidae, Dibamidae, Scincidae and Varanidae), pp. 65-78 in Zootaxa 4244 (1) on page 75, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4244.1.3, http://zenodo.org/record/400438
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Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Collection code
- USNM , ZFMK, ZISP , ZISP
- Event date
- 1914-04-19 , 1914-06-08
- Family
- Varanidae
- Genus
- Varanus
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Material sample ID
- USNM 160302 , ZFMK 97199, ZISP 11752.2 , ZISP 11752.1 , ZISP 23300
- Order
- Squamata
- Phylum
- Chordata
- Species
- nesterovi
- Taxon rank
- species
- Type status
- holotype , paratype
- Verbatim event date
- 1914-04-19 , 1914-06-08
References
- Bohme, W., Ehrlich, K., Milto, K., Orlov, N. & Scholz, S. (2015) A new species of desert monitor lizard (Varanidae: Faranus: Psammosaurus) from the Western Zagros Region (Iraq, Iran). Russian Journal of Herpetology, 22 (1), 41 - 52.