Iranolacerta zagrosica (RASTEGAR-POUYANI & NILSON, 1998)

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Higher Taxa	Lacertidae, Sauria, Lacertoidea, Squamata (lizards)
Subspecies
Common Names	Zagros Mountains Lacerta
Synonym	Lacerta zagrosica RASTEGAR-POUYANI & NILSON 1998 Lacerta zagrosica — ANDERSON 1999 Iranolacerta zagrosica — ARNOLD et al. 2007 Lacerta (Iranolacerta) zagrosica — SINDACO & JEREMČENKO 2008 Iranolacerta zagrosica — AHMADZADEH et al. 2013
Distribution	W Iran (Zagros mountains, Esfahan Province) Type locality: 32º58'N, 50º40'E, 3 km NW Fereydin Shahr, about 140 km NW Esfahan, Zagros Mountains, Esfahan Province, Iran, 2450 m elevation.
Reproduction	oviparous
Types	Holotype: GNM 5149 (given as GNHM, Göteborg), adult
Diagnosis	Diagnosis. Lacerta zagrosica differs from other Zagros small Lacertas by having a single postnasal plate (two postnasals in other taxa). It also differs by having ten ventral plate rows (eight normal in the other species) [NILSON et al. 2003]
Comment	Distribution: See map in SMID et al. 2014 for distribution in Iran.
Etymology
References	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 Arnold, E.N.; Arribas, O. & Carranza, S. 2007. Systematics of the Palaearctic and Oriental lizard tribe Lacertini (Squamata: Lacertidae: Lacertinae), with descriptions of eight new genera. Zootaxa 1430: 1-86 - get paper here Nilson, G.; N. Rastegar-Pouyani; E. Rastegar-Pouyani; and C. Andrén 2003. LACERTAS OF SOUTH AND CENTRAL ZAGROS MOUNTAINS, IRAN, WITH DESCRIPTION OF TWO NEW TAXA. Russ. J. Herpetol. 10 (1): - get paper here 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 Rastegar-Pouyani,N. & Nilson,G. 1998. A new species of Lacerta (Sauria: Lacertidae) from the Zagros mountains, Esfahan Province, West-Central Iran. Proc. Cal. Acad. Sci. 50 (10): 267-277 - get paper here Sindaco, R. & Jeremcenko, V.K. 2008. The reptiles of the Western Palearctic. Edizioni Belvedere, Latina (Italy), 579 pp. - get paper here 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 Smith, Krister T. 2013. New constraints on the evolution of the snake clades Ungaliophiinae, Loxocemidae and Colubridae (Serpentes), with comments on the fossil history of erycine boids in North America. Zoologischer Anzeiger 252 (2): 157-182 - get paper here
External links	IUCN Red List - Iranolacerta zagrosica - Least Concern, LC National Center for Biotechnology Information http://www.lacerta.de/AS/Taxon.php?Genus=22&Species=78 Google images

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