Timon princeps (Blanford, 1874)

Lacerta princeps Blanford, 1874b: 31 .

COMMON NAME. — Zagrosian Lizard.

HOLOTYPE. — ZSI 3351.

TYPE LOCALITY. — Neyriz, about 60 km East of Shiraz, Fars Province.

DISTRIBUTION. — “From South of Kermanshah Province through a belt between the West of Zagros hillsides and the Mesopotamian Plain to Fars Province ” (Smid et al. 2014).

HABITAT. — Dry hills with xerothermic vegetation (Smid et al. 2014).

IUCN. — Least concern.

REFERENCES. — Blanford (1874b); Ahmadzadeh et al. (2012); Smid et al. (2014).

REMARK

This is a sister clade to T. kurdistanicus (Suchow, 1936) with a divergence time occurred between them about 4-5 my ago (Ahmadzadeh et al. 2012).