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We describe a new species of Eremias lacertid from the Alborz Mountain range in northern Iran (Tehran Province). Eremias papenfussi n. sp. is part of the Eremias subgenus (or morphotype) by virtue of lacking lateral fringes on the fourth toe and color pattern. It can be further differentiated from previously described species assigned to this morph...
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We describe a new species of Eremias lacertid from the Alborz Mountain range in northern Iran (Tehran Province). Ere-mias papenfussi n. sp. is part of the Eremias subgenus (or morphotype) by virtue of lacking lateral fringes on the fourth toe and color pattern. It can be further differentiated from previously described species assigned to this morp...
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... Widespread Eremias genus (Fitzinger 1834), with about 33 recognized species, include 16 species from Iran (Rastegar-Pouyan et al. 2008, Rastegar-Pouyani et al. 2010, Mozaffari et al. 2011. Eremias intermedia Strauch, 1876 is distributed in southern central Asia and northern Afghanistan and Anderson reported it from Tajan (Tezden) river valley at the point where borders of Iran, Turkmenistan and Afghanistan comes together (Anderson 1999). ...
Markazi Province with its extended deserts and Anderson reported Eremias intermedia Strauch 1876, from Iran-Afghanistan border and Eremias nigrocellata Nikolsky 1896 from north and east of Iran. He also represented some features for recognition of these similar species. This study that lasted about one year was aimed at identifying herpetofauna of Kharturan protected area. 15 specimens of Eremias were obtained their measurements in agreement with the characters of neither Eremias intermedia nor Eremias nigrocellata that descrtibed by Anderson from Iran.
... In the present paper, an up-to-date identification key on the lizards of Iran is presented. Since then two families (including Sphaerodactylidae and Phyllodactylidae), seven genera (including Paralaudakia, Saara, Pseudoceramodactylus, Microgecko, Tenuidactylus, Mediodactylus and Parsigecko) and 26 species (Phrynocephalus ahvazicus, Ophiomorus maranjabensis, Eremias isfahanica, Eremias kopetdaghica, Eremias papenfussi, Eremias suphani, Eremias scripta, Acanthodactylus cantoris, Darevskia kopetdaghica, Darevskia schaekeli, Darevskia caspica, Darevskia kami, Asaccus iranicus, Asaccus zagrosicus, Asaccus granularis, Asaccus andersoni, Rhinogekko femoralis, Tropiocolotes naybandensis, Cyrtopodion hormozganum, Cyrtopodion golubevi, Cyrtopodion kiabii, Cyrtopodion persepolense, Mediodactylus ilamensis, Mediodactylus stevenandersoni, Microgecko chabaharensis, Varanus nesterovi) have been described, elevated, resurrected or added to the fauna of Iran (Gamble et al.a,b 2008; Böhme et al. 2009 and Torki ,2010 and Nazarov et al. a, b 2010; Rajabizadeh 2010; Torki et al. a,b 2011; Fujita and Papenfuss 2011; Mozaffari et al. 2011; Fathinia et al. 2011 and Melnikov et al. 2011; Ahmadzadeh et al. 2011 Ahmadzadeh et al. , 2012 Ahmadzadeh et al. and 2013 Haidari et al. 2012; Baig et al. (2012); Bauer et al. 2013; Wilms et al. 2013; Bahmani et al. 2014; Rastegar-Pouyani et al. 2015 and Gholamifard et al. 2016; Safaei-Mahroo et al. 2016; Maleki & Anderson 2015). Key to the families of lizards in Iran 1a Limbs absent . ...
During recent years several lizard taxa have been added to the faunal list of Iran. Descriptions and new records are scattered in different publications in the herpetological literature. We here present species accounts for 152 species belonging to 43 genera and 10 families up to July 2016. The most diverse family is Lacertidae with 9 genera, 49 species and 2 subspecies, followed by Gekkonidae with 13 genera and 43 species, Agamidae with 5 genera, 18 species and 4 subspecies, Scincidae with 7 genera, 18 species and 2 subspecies, Phyllodactylidae with 1 genus and 10 species, Sphaerodactylidae with 2 genera and 4 species, Varanidae with 1 genus, 3 species and 2 subspecies, Uromastycidae with 2 genera and 3 species, Eublepharidae with 1 genus and 3 species, and Anguidae with 2 genera and 2 species. The current paper provides a dichotomous key including all of the currently recognized lizards of Iran.
... The raw data on species distribution of reptiles were taken from several published sources, including: snakes – Latifi (1991); lizards – Anderson (1963 Anderson ( , 1974 Anderson ( , 1999 ); turtles , crocodiles, amphisbaenians and lizards – Sindaco and Jeremčenko (2008) and Leviton et al. (1992) ; and updated them with adding new species and new distribution records (e.g. Anderson and Leviton, 1966; Nilson and Andrén, 1978; Moravec, 1994; Rastegar-Pouyani and Rastegar-Pouyani, 2005; Ananjeva et al., 2006; Bostanchi et al., 2006; Rastegar-Pouyani et al., 2006; Venchi and Sindaco, 2006; Mozaffari and Parham, 2007; Nazarov and Rajabizadeh, 2007; Nilson and Rastegar-Pouyani, 2007; Rastegar-Pouyani et al., 2008; Fahimi, Papenfuss and Anderson, 2009; Gholamhosseini et al., 2009; Nazarov, Ananjeva and Radjabizadeh, 2009; Fathinia and RastegarPouyani, 2010; Rajabizadeh et al., 2010; Ahmadzadeh et al., 2011; Farhadi Qomi et al., 2011; Fathinia et al., 2011; Gholamifard, 2011; Karamiani and Rastegar-Pouyani, 2011; Kazemi et al., 2011; Moradi and Shafiei, 2011; Mozaffari, Ahmadzadeh and Parham, 2011; Torki, 2011 ; Torki, Manthey and Barts, 2011; Rajabizadeh, Nilson and Kami, 2011; Nazarov, Bondarenko and Radjabizadeh, 2012; Rajabizadeh et al., 2012; Heidari et al., 2013; Krause et al., 2013; Uetz and Hallermann, 2013). The list includes species recognized on the basis of biological, evolutionary and morphological species concepts (Uetz and Hallermann, 2013). ...
Iran is usually considered as a bridge between Oriental and African zoogeographical region, and also the 20th
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has always been interesting for herpetologists in terms of biogeography, ecology and zoogeography. In this study, distribution
maps of 215 terrestrial reptilian species (of which 50 were endemic to Iran) were digitized and the species richness patterns
were correlated with 13 environmental factors using spatial analyses methods. Our results showed that the hotspot regions
for all reptilian species are concentrated on south and southwest of Iran. This result is consistent with the Irano-Anatolian
biodiversity hotspot. Based on spatial analyses, species richness in the area is affected by seven environmental variables
which are associated with temperature and probably interpreted as the most important factor on reptile richness in Iran.
We present an annotated checklist for a total 241 reptiles and 22 amphibians including 5 frogs, 9 toads, 7 newts and salamanders, 1 crocodile, 1 worm lizard, 148 lizards, 79 snakes and 12 turtles and tortoises, includes the most scientific literature up to August 2014 and also based on several field surveys conducted in different Provinces of Iran from 2009 to 2014. We present an up-to-dated checklist of reptiles and amphibians in Iran. We provide a comprehensive listing of taxonomy, names, distribution and conservation status of all amphibians and reptiles of Iran. This checklist includes all recognized named taxa, English names for classes, orders, families, species, subspecies along with Persian names for species, including indication of native and introduced species. For the first time we report two non-native introduced reptiles from natural habitats of Iran. Of the total 22 species of amphibians in Iran, 6 (27.2%) are endemic and of the total 241 species of reptiles, 55 (22.8%) are endemic. Of the 22 amphibians species in Iran, 3 (13%) are Critically Endangered, 2 (9%) are Vulnerable and of the 241 reptile species 3 (1.2%) are Critically Endangered, 4 (1.6%) are Endangered and 10 (4.1%) are Vulnerable. Accordingly, this paper combines significant aspects of taxonomy, common names, conservation status and distribution of the Iranian herpetofauna.
Strauch's Racerunner, Eremias strauchi, is represented by two subspecies, Eremias strauchi strauchi Kessler, 1878 and Eremias strauchi kopetdaghica Szczerbak, 1972, occurring in opposite margins on the northern Iranian Plateau. We sequenced 3926 base pairs of nuclear and mitochondrial DNA from 16 samples of Eremias strauchi, Eremias lalezharica and Eremias velox collected from northeastern, northwestern and southern Iran. Phylogenetic analyses revealed that Eremias lalezharica is sister to Eremias strauchi kopetdaghica and caused the currently recognised species Eremias strauchi to be paraphyletic. According to the estimated genetic distances in the mitochondrial fragments among the lineages, E. s. strauchi diverged from E. s. kopetdaghica and E. lalezharica with a mean genetic distance of 14.0% and 13.9% respectively. Our data indicate enough molecular divergence between the two currently recognised subspecies of E. strauchi and justify upgrading them to full species level as Eremias strauchi (for the north-western clade) and Eremias kopetdaghica (for the north-eastern clade).
We present a comprehensive summary of the distribution of the lizards of Iran accompanied by an annotated checklist. The updated maps of distribution of all 146 species of 41 genera of 11 families are based on all available bibliographic records,
catalogues of museum collections and our own field observations. The final dataset used for the distribution maps contains 8525 georeferenced records and cover 41% of the country when plotted on a grid of 0.25° × 0.25° resolution. The dataset is publicly accessible through GBIF portal (http://www.gbif.org/dataset/7db4f705-61ae-4c6e-9de2-06674e7d46b2). Following the latest biogeographic division of the country, ~53% of the species (76 species) inhabit the Iranian Province, ~41% (60 species) the Western Asian mountain transition zone, ~9% (13 species) the Turanian Province, and ~18% (27 species) the Arabian Province. In addition, ~2% (3 species) reach Iran from the Indo-Malay biogeographic region and ~2% (3 species) are believed to have been introduced to Iran by humans. Endemic species (46) represent ~32% of the known species diversity. The most species-rich family of lizards in Iran is Lacertidae with 47 species, followed by Gekkonidae (41), Agamidae (18), Scincidae (15), Phyllodactylidae (10), Sphaerodactylidae (4), Eublepharidae and Uromastycidae (3), Anguidae and Varanidae (2), and Trogonophidae with one representative.
We present a comprehensive summary of the distribution of the lizards of Iran accompanied by an annotated checklist. The updated maps of distribution of all 146 species of 41 genera of 11 families are based on all available bibliographic records,
catalogues of museum collections and our own field observations. The final dataset used for the distribution maps contains 8525 georeferenced records and cover 41% of the country when plotted on a grid of 0.25° × 0.25° resolution. The dataset is publicly accessible through GBIF portal (http://www.gbif.org/dataset/7db4f705-61ae-4c6e-9de2-06674e7d46b2). Following the latest biogeographic division of the country, ~53% of the species (76 species) inhabit the Iranian Province, ~41% (60
species) the Western Asian mountain transition zone, ~9% (13 species) the Turanian Province, and ~18% (27 species) the Arabian Province. In addition, ~2% (3 species) reach Iran from the Indo-Malay biogeographic region and ~2% (3 species) are believed to have been introduced to Iran by humans. Endemic species (46) represent ~32% of the known species diversity. The most species-rich family of lizards in Iran is Lacertidae with 47 species, followed by Gekkonidae (41), Agamidae (18), Scincidae (15), Phyllodactylidae (10), Sphaerodactylidae (4), Eublepharidae and Uromastycidae (3), Anguidae and Varanidae (2), and Trogonophidae with one representative.
Iran contains 36 named endemic reptile species in 17 genera and seven families. The
most endemic and speciose family is the Gekkonidae, followed by the Lacertidae. These
two families collectively dominate with 22 species (or 60.1%) of the total endemic
herpetofauna. Twenty one endemics are known only from a single location or restricted
area within a single physiographic region. An analysis of endemicity is given in terms of
systematics and distribution.
