Eublepharis angramainyu Anderson & Leviton 1966

Eublepharis angramainyu Anderson & Leviton, 1966 HOLOTYPE. CAS 86384. TYPE LOCALITY. Between Masjid-i-Suleiman and Batwand, Khuzistan Prov., Iran. DISTRIBUTION. Syria, SE Turkey, Iraq, Iran. DISTRIBUTION IN IRAN. Fig. 26. Western foothills of the Zagros from Ilam to Bushehr Prov. Moradi & Shafiei (2011) provided a record from SW Kerman Prov. by which they extended the range for more than 450 km eastwards. HABITAT. Dry karst-like regions with extensive gypsum deposits, stony hillsides with numerous caverns and crevices and a cover of shrubby vegetation and scattered grass tussocks. Encountered on the surface at night, never found hiding under stones (Anderson 1999). REMARKS. Eublepharis ensafi Baloutch & Thireau (type locality Fakke, ca. 150 km N of Ahvaz) was synonymized with E. angramainyu by Grismer (1989). REFERENCES. Anderson & Leviton (1966a); Grismer (1988); Anderson (1999); Fathinia et al. (2009); Karamiani & Rastegar-Pouyani (2010); Torki (2010a); Moradi & Shafiei (2011).
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 14, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3855.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/4929701
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