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Acanthodactylus nilsoni Rastegar-Pouyani 1998

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Acanthodactylus nilsoni Rastegar-Pouyani, 1998

HOLOTYPE. GNHM 5145.

TYPE LOCALITY. 5 km S of Qasr-e-Shirin, Kermanshah Prov., Iran.

DISTRIBUTION. Endemic to Iran.

DISTRIBUTION IN IRAN. Fig. 76. Known only from the type locality and its vicinity.

HABITAT. Sandy and stony hills with luxuriant bushes including Alhagi, Artemisia, Astragalus, Euphorbia, Tamarix, and Zygophyllum.

REMARKS. The type locality lies about 7 km E of the borders with Iraq, therefore the occurrence of A. nilsoni in Iraq can be expected.

REFERENCES. Rastegar-Pouyani (1998a); Anderson (1999).

Notes

Published as part of 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, pp. 1-97 in Zootaxa 3855 (1) on page 29, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3855.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/4929701

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http://treatment.plazi.org/id/03C387F2FF90FFA5FF5B4D065557FC2C

Cites
Figure: 10.5281/zenodo.4929744 (DOI)
Is part of
Journal article: 10.11646/zootaxa.3855.1.1 (DOI)
Journal article: http://zenodo.org/record/4929701 (URL)
Journal article: http://publication.plazi.org/id/FFFAFF8AFF8CFFB9FFCC4F225678FFAC (URL)
Journal article: http://zoobank.org/0E2D2B7C-7A96-4CAB-87F2-87A785F88D7F (URL)
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https://sibils.text-analytics.ch/search/collections/plazi/03C387F2FF90FFA5FF5B4D065557FC2C (URL)
https://www.gbif.org/species/185468233 (URL)
https://www.checklistbank.org/dataset/4341/taxon/03C387F2FF90FFA5FF5B4D065557FC2C.taxon (URL)

Biodiversity

Collection code
GNHM
Family
Lacertidae
Genus
Acanthodactylus
Kingdom
Animalia
Material sample ID
GNHM 5145
Order
Squamata
Phylum
Chordata
Scientific name authorship
Rastegar-Pouyani
Species
nilsoni
Taxon rank
species
Type status
holotype
Taxonomic concept label
Acanthodactylus nilsoni Rastegar-Pouyani, 1998 sec. Šmíd, Moravec, Kodym, Kratochvíl, Yousefkhani, Rastegar-Pouyani & Frynta, 2014

References

  • Rastegar-Pouyani, N. (1998 a) A new species of Acanthodactylus from Qasr-e-Shirin, Kermanshah province, Western Iran. Proceedings of the California Academy of Sciences, 50, 257 - 265.
  • Anderson, S. C. (1999) The lizards of Iran. Society for the Study of Amphibians and Reptiles, Oxford, Ohio, 442 pp.