A checklist of lizards from southeastern part of the Sistan and Baluchestan Province in southeastern Iran

Document Type : Research articles

Authors

• Ehsan Damadi ¹
• Rasoul Karamiani ¹
• Nasrullah Rastegar-Pouyani ¹
• Ali Gholamifard ²

¹ Department of Biology, Faculty of Science

² Lorestan University

10.22067/ijab.v13i1.50398

Abstract

During herpetological fieldwork from April 2013 to March 2014 on the herpetofauna of the counties of Saravan, Sib and Suran, Zaboli, Sarbaz, and Chabahar in south east of Sistan and Baluchestan Province, SoutheasternIran a total of 97 specimens of lizards belonging to 19 species and five subspecies, 16 genera, and six families were collected and identified as follows: Calotes versicolor, Laudakia nupta nupta, L. n. fusca, Phrynocephalus scutellatus, Trapelus agilis agilis (Agamidae); Agamura persica, Bunopus tuberculatus, Cyrtopodion scabrum (Gekkonidae); Acanthodactylus blanfordii, A. micropholis, Eremias fasciata, E. persica , Mesalina watsonana, Ophisops elegans (Lacertidae); Ablepharus pannonicus, Eumeces schneiderii zarudnyi, Ophiomorus brevipes, O. tridactylus (Scincidae); Uromastyx asmussi (Uromastycidae); and Varanus griseus caspius (Varanidae). The most diverse families of the present collection are the Lacertidae with six species, followed by Agamidae and Scincidae each with four species. Detailed information of each lizard species was also provided.

Keywords

• Herpetofauna
• species
• lizards
• distribution
• Sistan and Baluchestan Province
• Iran

Main Subjects

• Ecology
• Morphology
• Taxonomy
• Zoogeography

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