Darevskia steineri ( Eiselt, 1995 ), 2013

Eskandarzadeh, Naeimeh, Rastegar-Pouyani, Nasrullah, Rastegar-Pouyani, Eskandar, Fathinia, Behzad, Bahmani, Zahed, Hamidi, Kordiyeh & Gholamifard, Ali, 2018, Annotated checklist of the endemic Tetrapoda species of Iran, Zoosystema 40 (24), pp. 507-537 : 518

Darevskia steineri ( Eiselt, 1995)

Lacerta steineri Eiselt, 1995: 63 .

COMMON NAME. — Steiner’s Lizard.

HOLOTYPE. — NMW 33715.

TYPE LOCALITY. — GoleLoweh near Minou-dasht, Golestan Province.

DISTRIBUTION. — Only known from a few localities in the East Hyrcanian forest in Golestan Province ( Ahmadzadeh et al. 2013).

HABITAT. — Found in the vicinity of Loveh Waterfall among dense forest, around the timbers and on the ground (Hosseinian Yousefkhani et al. 2013; Rastegar-Pouyani et al. 2013).

IUCN. — Data deficient.

REFERENCES. — Eiselt (1995); Anderson (1999); Ahmadzadeh et al. (2013); Hosseinian Yousefkhani et al. (2013); Rastegar-Pouyani et al. (2013).

REMARK

Based on Hosseinian Yousefkhani et al. (2013) this species is negatively affected by human activities, so more protection is needed for this species. Rastegar-Pouyani et al. (2013) stated that the coordinates given by Eiselt (1995) (33°11’N, 35°21’E) for this species are obviously incorrect since this is significantly far from the type locality given by him. They provided the coordinates of collecting locality (37°20’53”N, 55°40’28”E) for their collected material, being far from the Eiselt locality. Darevskia steineri , D. schaekeli Ahmedzadah, Flecks, Carretero, Mozaffari, Böhme, Harris, Freitas & Röd-der, 2013, D. defilippii ( Camerano, 1877) and D. kopetdaghica Ahmedzadah, Flecks, Carretero, Mozaffari, Böhme, Harris, Freitas & Rödder, 2013 , form the D. defilippii -complex ( Ahmadzadeh et al. 2013).