Trapelus sanguinolentus sanguinolentus (Pallas, 1827:23)

Wagner, Philipp, Bauer, Aaron M., Leviton, Alan E., Wilms, Thomas M. & Böhme, Wolfgang, 2016, A Checklist of the Amphibians and Reptiles of Afghanistan *, Proceedings of the California Academy of Sciences 63 (13), pp. 457-565 : 482

Trapelus sanguinolentus sanguinolentus (Pallas, 1827:23)

1827 Lacerta sanguinolenta Pallas, Zoographia Rosso-Asiatica, Sistens Omnium Animalium in Extsenso Imperio Rossico et Adjacentibus Maribus Observatorum Recensionexu, Domicilia, Mores et Descriptiones, Anatomen atque Icones Plurimorum. Volumen Tertum [= Volume 3]. Typis Academiae Caesareae Scientiarum, Petropoli (= St. Petersburg). vii + 428 + cxxv pp., 6 pls.

TYPE (S).— Most probably lost; from the hilly country Kum-Ankatar at the Terek River in Caucasia [= Terek River Valley]; translated from Latin .

SYNONYMS.— Agama aralensis Lichtenstein, 1823 from “in dem ganzen Strich östlich vom Aralsee (= East of the Aral Sea),” Kazakhstan.

LOCALITIES.— Agtsha [Djanz-Djan Prov., 500 m] ( ZFMK 8590–91); 64 mi by rd E Faizabad ( CAS 115920, FMNH 161133); 25 km E Khanabad ( CAS 120275); Khulm, Mazar-i-Sharif [700 m] ( ZFMK 14320); Maimana [Maimana Prov.] ( CAS 115922–23, FMNH 161197–99, FMNH 161201, ZFMK 8592–93); Mazar-e-Sharif ( ZFMK 15693); 20 km E of Mazar-i-Sharif ( CAS 120255–57, CAS 120274); 45 km W Mazar-i-Sharif ( CAS 120258–60); 50 km W Mazar-i-Sharif ( CAS 120273); 65–75 km W of Mazar-i-Sharif ( CAS 120261–62); Pol Khomri ( MNHN 1948.167); 25 km NW Pul-i-Khumri ( CAS 120251); Qizil Qala [Kunduz Prov., 400 m] ( ZFMK 8587); 10 km W of Tashkurgan ( CAS 120252–54) [see pl. 5, fig. 4 for distribution].

REMARKS.— Boulenger (1889:96) mentioned one specimen of “ Agama sanguinolenta ” from “old Gulran” which probably refers to BMNH 1889.9.21. 26.

Pallas, who was born in Berlin, Germany, sold most parts of his collection in 1795 to the Russian Academy of Sciences before he moved to the Crimea area, but some years later, in 1831, Johann Friedrich von Brandt (director of the zoological department at the time) was not able to trace this part of the Pallas collection and his specimens were not mentioned in publications of e.g., Eichwald, Strauch or Nikolskii. In 1810, when Pallas moved back to Berlin, he left parts of his collection in Crimea whereas other parts were donated to the Zoological Museum in Berlin. Therefore, only a few specimens of his collections, and especially very few of the type specimens, appear to have survived, and this has resulted in a cluster of taxonomic problems with respect to many of the species he described .

The date of the work by Pallas has been contentious. The title page of the work indicates that the work was printed 1811–1813, but it is widely held that publication was not until 1831. This latter date is almost certainly incorrect as J.E. Gray cited details from the “Zoographia Rosso-Asiatica” in a work that went to press in October 1830 (Gray 1831). The date used here, 1827, is that suggested by Stresemann (1951).