Iranodon persicus ( Eiselt & Steiner, 1970 )

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 : 510

publication ID	https://doi.org/ 10.5252/zoosystema2018v40a24
publication LSID	urn:lsid:zoobank.org:pub:D7AD1558-5D6E-4C68-9F25-F7C1B5DB9C54
DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4382992
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scientific name	Iranodon persicus ( Eiselt & Steiner, 1970 )
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Iranodon persicus ( Eiselt & Steiner, 1970) View in CoL

Batrachuperus persicus Eiselt & Steiner, 1970: 78 View in CoL .

COMMON NAME. — Persian Mountain Salamander.

HOLOTYPE. — NHMW 19435 View Materials : 4.

TYPE LOCALITY. — Talesh Moutains, Gilan Province.

DISTRIBUTION. — Known from the Talesh and Alborz Mountains of Iran, South East of Chalus, in Mazandaran Province and Delmadeh village, South East of Khalkhal, in Ardabil Province ( Kami 2004; Ebrahimi et al. 2004). Ahmadzadeh et al. (2011a) collected a single specimen in Dasht-e-Daman Yeylagi, in Rezvan Shahr city of Gilan Province.

HABITAT. — Found in mountain streams ( Ahmadzadeh & Kami 2009; Ahmadzadeh et al. 2011a).

IUCN. — Near threatened.

REFERENCES. — Eiselt & Steiner (1970); Ebrahimi et al. (2004); Kami (2004); Zhang et al. (2006); Ahmadzadeh & Kami (2009); Ahmadzadeh et al. (2011a).

REMARKS

Described as Batrachuperus persicus the species was transferred to Paradactylon according to molecular study (Zhang et al. 2006).

Family SALAMANDRIDAE Goldfuss, 1820 Subfamily PLEURODELINAE Tschudi, 1838

Genus Neurergus Cope, 1862

Kingdom	Animalia
Phylum	Chordata
Class	Amphibia
Order	Caudata
Family	Hynobiidae
Genus	Iranodon