Darevskia steineri (Eiselt, 1995)

HOLOTYPE. NMW 33715.

TYPE LOCALITY. Gole-Loweh near Minou-dasht, Golestan Prov. Iran.

DISTRIBUTION. Endemic to Iran.

DISTRIBUTION IN IRAN. Fig. 88. A small area in Golestan Prov. It was known only from the type specimens until Rastegar-Pouyani et al. (2013b) discovered a population about 35 km NE from the type locality .

HABITAT. Darevskia steineri climbs trees and rocks in dense Hyrcanian forests consisting of

Acer spp., Alnus serrulata, Glechoma hederacea, Philodendron bipinnatifidum, Quercus castaneifolia, Rubus fruticosus, and Ruscus hurcanus (Hosseinian Yousefkhani et al. 2013g; Rastegar-Pouyani et al. 2013b).

REFERENCES. Eiselt (1995); Anderson (1999); Arnold et al. (2007); Ahmadzadeh et al. (2013a); Hosseinian Yousefkhani et al. (2013c); Rastegar-Pouyani et al. (2013b).