A revised key to the lizards of Iran (Reptilia: Squamata: Lacertilia)

Nasrabadi, Reza Ghorbani; Rastegar–Pouyani, Nasrullah; Rastegar‐Pouyani, Eskandar; Gharzi, Ahmad

doi:10.11646/zootaxa.4227.3.9

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“…S1 – S36 for examples habitats surveyed during fieldworks and observed lizard species in each habitat)), (2) published papers and books (see Appendix S3 ) and (3) from the Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF: https://www.gbif.org/ ). Observed lizards were identified following Anderson 38 , Rastegar-Pouyani et al 39 and Narabadi et al 85 . In total, we collected 8620 distribution points from these sources.…”

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Reptile species richness associated to ecological and historical variables in Iran

Kafash

Ashrafi

Yousefi

et al. 2020

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Spatial gradients of species richness can be shaped by the interplay between historical and ecological factors. They might interact in particularly complex ways in heterogeneous mountainous landscapes with strong climatic and geological contrasts. We mapped the distribution of 171 lizard species to investigate species richness patterns for all species (171), diurnal species (101), and nocturnal species (70) separately. We related species richness with the historical (past climate change, mountain uplifting) and ecological variables (climate, topography and vegetation). We found that assemblages in the Western Zagros Mountains, north eastern and north western parts of Central Iranian Plateau have the highest number of lizard species. Among the investigated variables, annual mean temperature explained the largest variance for all species (10%) and nocturnal species (31%). For diurnal species, temperature change velocity shows strongest explained variance in observed richness pattern (26%). Together, our results reveal that areas with annual temperature of 15–20 °C, which receive 400–600 mm precipitation and experienced moderate level of climate change since the Last Glacial Maximum (LGM) have highest number of species. Documented patterns of our study provide a baseline for understanding the potential effect of ongoing climate change on lizard diversity in Iran.

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Reptile species richness associated to ecological and historical variables in Iran

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“…We suggest that the populations from Pakistan and Afghanistan should be tentatively ranked under H. septemtaeniatus transcaucasicus despite the fact that recent works (Faizi and Rastegar-Pouyani 2006;Rastegar-Pouyani et al 2008;Arakelyan et al 2011;Nasrabadi et al 2017) treated the taxon transcaucasicus as a subspecies of H. auratus. Moravec et al (2006) examined the type series of H. septemtaeniatus and H. auratus and pointed out differences in several morphological characters.…”

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Out of the blue: The first record of the genus Heremites Gray, 1845 (Squamata, Scincidae) from Pakistan

Masroor¹,

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Khisroon

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The genus Heremites Gray, 1845 is endemic to the Western Palearctic region, containing morphologically similar species with a not well resolved taxonomy. The genus has a broad distribution from North Africa to Central Asia, with the only known record from northeastern Afghanistan. Three species are currently recognized in the genus with one, H. septemtaeniatus (Reuss, 1834), representing populations at the eastern edge of the genus range. During extensive fieldwork, we discovered H. septemtaeniatus from northwestern Pakistan and provisionally suggest that this population could be morphologically defined as H. septemtaeniatus transcaucasicus (Chernov, 1926). This important contribution to the knowledge regarding the family Scincidae in Pakistan, however, needs further investigation using an integrative approach.

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“…We identified all the poached specimens of reptiles with the help of updated keys available in the literature (Anderson 1999;Khan 2006;Masroor, 2012;Nasrabadi et al 2017). We counted numbers of illegally collected reptiles for all five surveys.…”

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A case study on illegal reptile poaching from Balochistan, Pakistan

Masroor¹,

Khisroon²,

Jablonski³

2020

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The southwestern part of the Balochistan Province is a faunal extension of the Iranian Plateau in Pakistan, harboring more than one-third of Pakistan’s known amphibian and reptile species. We carried out field visits in five districts of southwestern Balochistan during 2013–2017 to investigate the scale and hotspots of reptile poaching. We encountered 73 illegal collectors possessing 5,369 live reptiles representing 19 species in ten families. Overall, Teratoscincus keyserlingii, T. microlepis (both Sphaerodactylidae), Phrynocephalus maculatus and P. luteoguttatus (both Agamidae) were the most collected lizards, having a relative abundance of 22.4%, 13.5%, 11.9% and 11.3 %, respectively. Eumeces schneiderii zarudnyi (Scincidae) was among the least collected lizard. Similarly, Lytorhynchus maynardi (Colubridae) and Eryx tataricus speciosus (Erycidae) were the most abundant snakes in the total collection (4.4% and 3.0%, respectively). Among the poached reptiles were internationally protected species: Varanus griseus caspius (Varanidae; CITES Appendix-I), E. t. speciosus (Appendix-II), Naja oxiana (Elapidae; Appendix-II), and Saara asmussi (Uromastycidae; Appendix-II). We found that the overall trend of illegal reptile poaching steadily decreased during the study period (from 1,724 individuals in 2013 to 633 in 2017). According to collectors, poached reptiles were largely destined for the local and international pet trade but also targeted other markets including folk medicines and snake charmer shows. One particular hotspot for the collection of reptiles was identified and should be a focus of law-enforcement activities. This particular case study partly demonstrates the effectiveness of strict enforcement of recently amended provincial wildlife protection legislation in the less studied regions of Asia.

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A revised key to the lizards of Iran (Reptilia: Squamata: Lacertilia)

Cited by 10 publications

References 16 publications

Reptile species richness associated to ecological and historical variables in Iran

Reptile species richness associated to ecological and historical variables in Iran

Out of the blue: The first record of the genus Heremites Gray, 1845 (Squamata, Scincidae) from Pakistan

A case study on illegal reptile poaching from Balochistan, Pakistan

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