Eumeces persicus Faizi, Rastegar-Pouyani, Rastegar-Pouyani, Nazarov, Heidari, Zangi, Orlova & Poyarkov, 2017

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Eumeces persicus Faizi, Rastegar-Pouyani, Rastegar-Pouyani, Nazarov, Heidari, Zangi, Orlova & Poyarkov, 2017: 294 .

COMMON NAME. — Persian Striped Skink.

HOLOTYPE. — RUZM-SE-07.

TYPE LOCALITY. — 28 km South West of Tehran Province around the Imam Khomaini Airport (IKA), at an elevation of about 1100 m.

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DISTRIBUTION. — From South of Tehran to Kerman Province at

the eastern Zagros Mountain slopes.

HABITAT. — Found in broad flat vegetated plains with scattered bushes with soft soils.

IUCN. — Not evaluated.

REFERENCE. — Faizi et al. (2017).

REMARK

Until now the species is recorded from two localities: South of Tehran (holotype) and Kerman Provinces (paratypes).