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Saara loricata (BLANFORD, 1874)

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Higher TaxaAgamidae (Uromastycinae), Sauria, Iguania, Squamata (lizards)
Subspecies 
Common NamesE: Iraqi Mastigure, Iraqi Spiny-tailed Lizard
G: Irakische Dornschwanzagame 
SynonymCentrotrachelus loricatus BLANFORD 1874: 660
Centrotrachelus loricatus — BLANFORD 1881: 677
Uromastix loricatus — BOULENGER 1885: 409
Uromastix costatus MÜLLER 1885: 294 (fide BOULENGER, Zool. Rec. 1885)
Uromastyx asmussi loricatus – MERTENS 1956: 93
Uromastyx loricatus — CLARK et al. 1966
Uromastyx loricatus — WERMUTH 1967: 103
Uromastyx loricata — FRYNTA 1997
Uromastyx loricatus — ANDERSON 1999
Saara hardwickii — WILMS et al. 2009
Uromastyx loricata — ŠMÍD et al. 2014
Uromastyx loricatus — MOHAMMED et al. 2017 
DistributionIraq, SW Iran (Kurdistan-Kermanshah, Khusestan-Lorestan, Fars, Bushehr)

Type locality: “haud procul a Bushire, urebe ad litus sinus Persici”.  
Reproductionoviparous 
TypesHolotype: BMNH 1946.8.11.59, female, Bushir, Iraq, pres. P.L. Sclater, without date.
Holotype: NMBA = NHMB 3491, female [costatus] 
DiagnosisAdditional details, e.g. a detailed description or comparisons (338 characters), are available for collaborators and contributors. Please contact us for details. 
CommentDistribution: See map in SMID et al. 2014, Ghaedi et al. 2020 for distribution in Iran. 
References
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  • Anderson, Steven C 1999. The lizards of Iran. Contributions to Herpetology Volume 15, Society for the Study of Amphibians and Reptiles, Saint Louis, Missouri: i-vii, 1-442 [review in Copeia 2000 (4): 1144] - get paper here
  • Blanford, W.T. 1874. Descriptions of two Uromasticine lizards from Mesopotamia and Southern Persia. Proc. Zool. Soc. London 1874: 656-161 - get paper here
  • Blanford, W.T. 1881. On a collection of Persian reptiles recently added to the British Museum. Proc. Zool. Soc. London 1881: 671-682 - get paper here
  • Boulenger, G.A. 1885. Catalogue of the lizards in the British Museum (Nat. Hist.) I. Geckonidae, Eublepharidae, Uroplatidae, Pygopodidae, Agamidae. London: 450 pp. - get paper here
  • Frynta,D. et al. 1997. Results of the Czech biological expedition to Iran. Part 1. Notes on the distribution of amphibians and reptiles. Acta Soc. Zool. Bohem. 61: 3-17
  • Ghaedi, Z., Badri, S., Vaissi, R. S. P., Javidkar, M., & Ahmadzadeh, F. 2020. The Zagros Mountains acting as a natural barrier to gene flow in the Middle East: more evidence from the evolutionary history of spiny-tailed lizards (Uromasticinae: Saara). Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society, 192 (4): 1123–1136 [online 2020] - get paper here
  • Ghaedi, Z., Qashqaei, A. T., & Mahdavi, A. 2021. Burrow structure and site selection of the Mesopotamian Spiny-tailed Lizard, Saara loricata (Blanford, 1874)(Squamata: Agamidae) in Iran. Zoology in the Middle East, 1-3 - get paper here
  • Haas G. and Werner, Y. L. 1969. Lizards and snakes from Southwestern Asia, collected by Henry Field. Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool. Harvard 138: 327-406. - get paper here
  • Kamali, Kamran 2020. A Field Guide to the Reptiles and Amphibians of Iran. Edition Chimaira, Frankfurt am Main, Germany (www.chimaira.de). 574 pp.
  • Kramer, Eugen 1979. Typenkatalog der Echsen im Naturhistorischen Museum Basel (BM), Stand 1978. [type catalogue] Revue Suisse de Zoologie 86 (1): 159-166 - get paper here
  • Leviton,A.E.; Anderson,S.C.; Adler, K.; Minton,S.A. 1992. Handbook to Middle East Amphibians and Reptiles. SSAR, Oxford, Ohio (Contr. to Herpetol. No. 8), 1-252
  • Mohammed, Rihab Ghaleb; Fadhel Aabbas Rhadi, Nasrullah Rastegar-Pouyani, Eskandar Rastegar-Pouyani, Seyyed Saeed Hosseinian Yousefkhani 2017. Zoogeography of Lizards Fauna from Central and Southern Iraq with a Checklist of Iraqi Lizard’s Fauna. Russ. J. Herpetol. 24 (3): 193-201 - get paper here
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  • RASTEGAR-POUYANI, NASRULLAH; HAJI GHOLI KAMI, MEHDI RAJABZADEH, SOHEILA SHAFIEI AND STEVEN CLEMENT ANDERSON 2008. Annotated Checklist of Amphibians and Reptiles of Iran. Iranian Journal of Animal Biosystematics 4 (1): 7-30
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  • ŠMÍD, JIŘÍ; JIŘÍ MORAVEC, PETR KODYM, LUKÁŠ KRATOCHVÍL, SEYYED SAEED HOSSEINIAN YOUSEFKHANI, ESKANDAR RASTEGAR-POUYANI & DANIEL FRYNTA 2014. Annotated checklist and distribution of the lizards of Iran. Zootaxa 3855 (1): 001–097 - get paper here
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  • Wilms, Thomas; Böhme, Wolfgang; Wagner, Philipp; Lutzmann, Nicolà; Andreas Schmitz 2009. On the Phylogeny and Taxonomy of the Genus Uromastyx Merrem, 1820 (Reptilia: Squamata: Agamidae: Uromastycinae) – Resurrection of the Genus Saara Gray, 1845. Bonner zoologische Beiträge 56: 55-99 - get paper here
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