Mediodactylus sagittifer ( Nikolsky, 1900 )

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 : 22

Mediodactylus sagittifer ( Nikolsky, 1900)

LECTOTYPE. ZIL 9331, designated by Szczerbak & Golubev (1986).

TYPE LOCALITY. Originally Bampur and Farra, SE Iran; restricted to Bampur, Sistan and Baluchistan Prov., Iran by Szczerbak & Golubev (1986).

DISTRIBUTION. Iran and Pakistan.

DISTRIBUTION IN IRAN. Fig. 53 . Hormozgan and Sistan and Baluchistan Prov.

HABITAT. Specimens were caught on tree trunks in an acacia forest and on a wall of a subterranean house ( Szczerbak & Golubev 1996).

REMARKS. Mediodactylus sagittifer is considered a younger synonym of Cyrtopodion brevipes by Nazarov et al. (2012). It was recovered as closely related to M. kotschyi ( Červenka et al. 2008) .

REFERENCES. Szczerbak & Golubev (1986, 1996); Anderson (1999); Červenka et al. (2008); Červenka & Kratochvíl (2010).

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.