Phrynocephalus mystaceus (Pallas, 1776)

NEOTYPE. ZISP 8735.1, designated by Barabanov & Ananjeva (2007).

TYPE LOCALITY. Originally “arenosis Naryn et deserti Comani” (Pallas 1776); restricted to Naryn Steppe on the north coast of the Caspian Sea by Mertens & Müller (1928); given as Ryn Peski (Ryn Sands), Uralskaya Region, north-western Kazakhstan by Barabanov & Ananjeva (2007).

DISTRIBUTION. Its global distribution resembles that of P. helioscopus . SE European Russia N of the Caucasus, Kazakhstan, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, Tajikistan, Kyrgyzstan, NW China, south to Afghanistan and NE Iran.

DISTRIBUTION IN IRAN. Fig. 16. South Khorasan, Khorasan Razavi and Semnan Prov.

HABITAT. Sand dunes, Anderson (1999) found P. mystaceus associated with Tamarix and other psammophilous shrubs.

REFERENCES. Anderson (1999); Khan (1999); Barabanov & Ananjeva (2007); Hosseinian Yousefkhani & Rastegar-Pouyani (2013a); Khani et al. (2013), Molavi et al. (2014).