Annotated checklist and distribution of the lizards of Iran
Author
Šmíd, Jiří
Author
Moravec, Jiří
Author
Kodym, Petr
Author
Kratochvíl, Lukáš
Author
Yousefkhani, Seyyed Saeed Hosseinian
Author
Rastegar-Pouyani, Eskandar
jirismd@gmail.com.
Author
Frynta, Daniel
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Zootaxa
2014
2014-08-20
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Darevskia raddei
(
Boettger, 1892
)
LECTOTYPE
.
SMF
12054, designated by
Mertens (1967)
;
Holotype
RUZM-
LL70.1
(
D. r. chaldoranensis
)
;
Holotype
NMW 32999 (
D. r. vanensis
)
.
TYPE LOCALITY. “Njuwady im mittleren Araxesthal” [= Nyuvadi,
Armenia
].
DISTRIBUTION. Transcaucasia south of the Grater Caucasus range, E
Turkey
, NW
Iran
.
DISTRIBUTION IN
IRAN
.
Fig. 86
.
The NW
projection of the country (
West Azerbaijan
,
East Azerbaijan
,
Ardabil
,
Zanjan
, and
Gilan Prov.
). There are two subspecies occurring in this relatively small area: the nominotypical one in the eastern part of the range and
D. r. chaldoranensis
Rastegar-Pouyani, Karamiani, Oraei, Khosrawani & Rastegar-Pouyani
in the west
.
HABITAT. Various rocky habitats as barren rocks, rocky river banks, stony habitats in forest and mountain steppes, ruins, and stone walls.
REMARKS. Although
Anderson (1999)
tentatively assigned the populations north of Lake Urmia [Urumiyeh] to
D. r. vanensis
(Eiselt, Schmidtler & Darevsky)
,
Rastegar-Pouyani
et al.
(2011b)
re-assigned them to
D. r. chaldoranensis
.
REFERENCES.
Eiselt
et al.
(1993)
;
Schmidtler
et al.
(1994)
;
Eiselt (1995)
;
Anderson (1999)
;
Fu
et al.
(2000)
;
Arnold
et al.
(2007)
;
Rastegar-Pouyani
et al.
(2011b)
;
Dehghani
et al.
(2014a
,b).