Mediodactylus ilamensis ( Fathinia, Karamiani, Darvishnia, Heidari & Rastegar-Pouyani, 2011 )

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 : 21-22

Mediodactylus ilamensis ( Fathinia, Karamiani, Darvishnia, Heidari & Rastegar-Pouyani, 2011)

HOLOTYPE. RUZM-GC120.1.

TYPE LOCALITY. Zarin-Abad region , Dehloran Township, Ilam Prov., Iran.

DISTRIBUTION. Endemic to Iran.

DISTRIBUTION IN IRAN. Fig. 51 . Known only from two specimens from the type locality .

HABITAT. The type locality lies in an area of gypsum and lime deposits and is covered with different vegetation types mainly including grasses, bushes and shrubs ( Capparidaceae : Capparis spinosa , Cleome oxypetala ; Caryophyllaceae : Gypsophyla linearifolia , G. pallida ; Chenopodiaceae : Halocharis sulphurea , Noaea mucronata , Salsola imbricate ; Compositae: Achillea conferta ; Rosaceae : Amygdalus arabica ), and sparse trees ( Pistachia atlantica and Quercus brantii ). The specimens were collected on foothills heavily grazed by sheep and goats.

REMARKS. Originally described under the genus Carinatogecko . For discussion on synonymization with Mediodactylus see Bauer et al. (2013) and remarks by M. heteropholis above.

REFERENCES. Fathinia et al. (2011a); Bauer et al. (2013).

Figures

FIGURES 50–55. 50. Mediodactylus heteropholis. 51. Mediodactylus ilamensis. 52. Mediodactylus russowii. Blue square denotes the type locality for M. r. zarudnyi. 53. Mediodactylus sagittifer. 54. Mediodactylus spinicauda. 55. Mediodactylus stevenandersoni.