Eublepharis angramainyu Anderson & Leviton, 1966

HOLOTYPE. CAS 86384.

TYPE LOCALITY. Between Masjid-i-Suleiman and Batwand, Khuzistan Prov., Iran.

DISTRIBUTION. Syria, SE Turkey, Iraq, Iran.

DISTRIBUTION IN IRAN. Fig. 26. Western foothills of the Zagros from Ilam to Bushehr Prov. Moradi & Shafiei (2011) provided a record from SW Kerman Prov. by which they extended the range for more than 450 km eastwards.

HABITAT. Dry karst-like regions with extensive gypsum deposits, stony hillsides with numerous caverns and crevices and a cover of shrubby vegetation and scattered grass tussocks. Encountered on the surface at night, never found hiding under stones (Anderson 1999).

REMARKS. Eublepharis ensafi Baloutch & Thireau (type locality Fakke, ca. 150 km N of Ahvaz) was synonymized with E. angramainyu by Grismer (1989).

REFERENCES. Anderson & Leviton (1966a); Grismer (1988); Anderson (1999); Fathinia et al. (2009); Karamiani & Rastegar-Pouyani (2010); Torki (2010a); Moradi & Shafiei (2011).