Acanthodactylus nilsoni Rastegar-Pouyani, 1998

Šmíd, Jiří, Moravec, Jiří, Kodym, Petr, Kratochvíl, Lukáš, Yousefkhani, Seyyed Saeed Hosseinian, Rastegar-Pouyani, Eskandar & Frynta, Daniel, 2014, Annotated checklist and distribution of the lizards of Iran, Zootaxa 3855 (1), pp. 1-97 : 29

Acanthodactylus nilsoni Rastegar-Pouyani, 1998

HOLOTYPE. GNHM 5145 .

TYPE LOCALITY. 5 km S of Qasr-e-Shirin, Kermanshah Prov., Iran.

DISTRIBUTION. Endemic to Iran.

DISTRIBUTION IN IRAN. Fig. 76 . Known only from the type locality and its vicinity .

HABITAT. Sandy and stony hills with luxuriant bushes including Alhagi , Artemisia , Astragalus , Euphorbia , Tamarix , and Zygophyllum .

REMARKS. The type locality lies about 7 km E of the borders with Iraq, therefore the occurrence of A. nilsoni in Iraq can be expected .

REFERENCES. Rastegar-Pouyani (1998a); Anderson (1999).

Figures

FIGURES 74–79. 74. Acanthodactylus khamirensis. 75. Acanthodactylus micropholis. 76. Acanthodactylus nilsoni. 77. Acanthodactylus schmidti. 78. Apathya cappadocica. Blue square denotes the type locality for A. c. urmiana. 79. Apathya yassujica.