Teratoscincus keyserlingii Strauch 1863

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 : 49

Teratoscincus keyserlingii Strauch 1863

LECTOTYPE. ZIL 2396, designated by Szczerbak & Golubev (1986).

TYPE LOCALITY. Seri-Tschah [Sar Chah], South Khorasan Prov., Iran.

DISTRIBUTION. Iran, W Afghanistan, W Pakistan; isolated populations in Qatar and UAE.

DISTRIBUTION IN IRAN. Fig. 144 . Central and eastern desert basins from Esfahan and Semnan Prov. south to Hormozgan and Sistan and Baluchistan Prov .

HABITAT. Sandy soil sometimes encrusted with salt. Anderson (1993) found all three Iranian species syntopic in the Zabol area ( northern Sistan and Baluchistan Prov.) .

REMARKS. This species was previously considered a subspecies of T. scincus (Schlegel, 1858) , and although it is currently regarded as a full species ( Macey et al. 2005; Mozaffari & Parham 2007; Gardner 2013), its elevation to species status has not been fully clarified yet. Teratoscincus zarudnyi Nikolsky, 1896 also described from Iran is a younger synonym of T. keyserlingii .

REFERENCES. Szczerbak & Golubev (1986, 1996); Anderson (1993, 1999); Manilo (1993); Macey et al. (2005).

Figures

FIGURES 140–145. 140. Trachylepis septemtaeniata. 141. Trachylepis vittata. 142. Pristurus rupestris. Blue square denotes the type locality for P. r. iranicus. 143. Teratoscincus bedriagai. 144. Teratoscincus keyserlingii. 145. Teratoscincus microlepis.