Mediodactylus spinicauda (Strauch, 1887)

HOLOTYPE. ZIL 4047.

TYPE LOCALITY. Shahrud, Semnan Prov., Iran.

DISTRIBUTION. Iran, Turkmenistan, Afghanistan.

DISTRIBUTION IN IRAN. Fig. 54. N and NE parts of the country, reported from Tehran, Semnan, Khorasan Razavi and South Khorasan Prov.

HABITAT. The only information available from Iran is by Nazarov (2005), who found M. spinicauda in an intermontane argillaceous rubble plain with sparse vegetation consisting of wormwood and some species of saltwort and subshrub, which is in agreement with data from the Kopet Dagh piedmont in Turkmenistan (Szczerbak & Golubev 1996).

REMARKS. A sister species to M. russowii (Macey et al. 2000b; Pyron et al. 2013). For discussion on the phylogenetic relationships among Mediodactylus and the paraphyly of the genus see remarks by M. russowii above.

REFERENCES. Szczerbak & Golubev (1996); Anderson (1999); Nazarov (2005); Gamble et al. (2012); Bauer et al. (2013).