Iranolacerta zagrosica ( Rastegar-Pouyani & Nilson, 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 : 38

Iranolacerta zagrosica ( Rastegar-Pouyani & Nilson, 1998)

HOLOTYPE. GNHM Re. ex. 5149.

TYPE LOCALITY. 3 km NW Fereydun Shahr, Esfahan Prov., Iran.

DISTRIBUTION. Endemic to Iran.

DISTRIBUTION IN IRAN. Fig. 109 . Known only from a couple of localities in the central Zagros Mts. (Esfahan, Lorestan Prov.) .

HABITAT. A high-altitude species inhabiting rocky outcrops and vertical walls on alpine meadows from 2450–3200 m. It was found sympatric with I. brandtii which occurred on horizontal stony-gravel substrate, while I. zagrosica lived on rocky slopes ( Nilson et al. 2003).

REMARKS. Based on the phylogenetic reconstruction by Ahmadzadeh et al. (2013a), the split between I. brandtii and I. zagrosica took place 2.4–4.5 Mya.

REFERENCES. Rastegar-Pouyani & Nilson (1998); Anderson (1999); Nilson et al. (2003); Arnold et al. (2006, 2007); Rajabizadeh et al. (2010c); Ahmadzadeh et al. (2013b).

Figures

FIGURES 104–109. 104. Eremias pleskei. 105. Eremias strauchi. 106. Eremias suphani. 107. Eremias velox. 108. Iranolacerta brandtii. 109. Iranolacerta zagrosica.