Trachylepis vittata ( Olivier, 1804 )

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 : 48

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.3855.1.1

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DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4929539

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scientific name

Trachylepis vittata ( Olivier, 1804 )
status

 

Trachylepis vittata ( Olivier, 1804)

HOLOTYPE. MNHN 197 View Materials .

TYPE LOCALITY. Sands W of Rosetta [Rashid], Egypt.

DISTRIBUTION. Mediterranean coast of N Africa from Algeria to Egypt, through the Levant and Anatolia to western Iran.

DISTRIBUTION IN IRAN. Fig. 141 View FIGURES 140–145. 140 . Scattered records from Kermanshah and Ilam Prov., an isolated single record from Mt. Damavand , Mazandaran Prov. Iran represents the eastern margin of the species distribution .

HABITAT. Dry stony slopes with annual grassy vegetation ( Fathinia et al. 2009). Outside Iran reported from a wide variety of biotopes on stony or sandy soil from palm oases, field and road margins, or vegetated rocky slopes to places nearly devoid of any vegetation ( Schleich et al. 1996).

REMARKS. Trachylepis vittata and T. septemtaeniata were found sympatric in Ilam Prov. ( Fathinia et al. 2009).

REFERENCES. Anderson (1999); Fathinia et al. (2009); Fattahi et al. (2013, 2014); Rastegar-Pouyani et al. (2013d).

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Chordata

Class

Reptilia

Order

Squamata

Family

Scincidae

Genus

Trachylepis

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