Tenuidactylus caspius ( Eichwald, 1831 )

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 : 26

Tenuidactylus caspius ( Eichwald, 1831)

LECTOTYPE. ZIL 3182, designated by Szczerbak & Golubev (1986).

TYPE LOCALITY. Baku, Azerbaijan.

DISTRIBUTION. Transcaucasia, S Russia, Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, N Afghanistan, and N and E Iran.

DISTRIBUTION IN IRAN. Fig. 65. W of the Caspian Sea, the eastern Alborz and Kopet Dagh ranges, along the Afghan border to the Zabol region in Sistan and Baluchistan Prov. Two isolated and dubious records from Kermanshah and Fars Prov. require further confirmation ( Szczerbak & Golubev 1996) .

HABITAT. Vertical cliffs and rocky faces; also found in anthropogenic habitats on brick walls, stone fences, and other abandoned structures as well as on inhabited buildings.

REFERENCES. Szczerbak & Golubev (1986, 1996); Kami (2005a); Červenka et al. (2008); Ahmadzadeh et al. (2008, 2010); Bauer et al. (2013); Hojati et al. (2013).

Figures

FIGURES 62–67. 62. Stenodactylus affinis. 63. Stenodactylus arabicus. 64. Stenodactylus doriae. 65. Tenuidactylus caspius. 66. Tenuidactylus longipes. 67. Tenuidactylus turcmenicus.