Iranolacerta brandtii

Iranolacerta brandtii
Conservation status
Data Deficient  (IUCN 3.1) [1]
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Reptilia
Order:	Squamata
Family:	Lacertidae
Genus:	Iranolacerta
Species:	I. brandtii
Binomial name
Iranolacerta brandtii (De Filippi, 1863)
Synonyms [2]
Lacerta brandtii De Filippi, 1863 Darevskia brandtii — Arribas, 1997 Iranoacerta brandtii — Arnold, Arribas & Carranza, 2007

Iranolacerta brandtii, also known commonly as Brandt's Persian lizard, ^[2] is a species of lizard in the family Lacertidae. The species is native to eastern Europe and western Asia. There are two recognized subspecies.

Etymology

I. brandtii is named after Johann Friedrich von Brandt, a German zoologist, surgeon, pharmacologist, and botanist. ^{[2] [3]}

Geographic range

I. brandtii is found in southern Azerbaijan, northwestern Iran, and Turkey. ^[2]

Habitat

The preferred natural habitats of I. brandtii are rocky areas, grassland, and shrubland, at altitudes of 500–2,600 m (1,600–8,500 ft). ^[1]

Reproduction

I. brandti is oviparous. ^[2]

Subspecies

Two subspecies are recognized as being valid, including the nominotypical subspecies. ^[2]

• Iranolacerta brandtii brandtii(De Filippi, 1863)
• Iranolacerta brandtii esfahanica(Nilson, N. Rastegar-Pouyani, E. Rastegar-Pouyani & Andrén, 2003)

Nota bene : A trinomial authority in parentheses indicates that the subspecies was originally described in a genus other than Iranolacerta .

References

1. Tuniyev B, Ananjeva NB, Agasyan A, Orlov NL, Tuniyev S, Anderson S (2009). "Iranolacerta brandtii (errata version published in 2017)". The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2009: e.T164697A114559373. https://dx.doi.org/10.2305/IUCN.UK.2009.RLTS.T164697A5918527.en. Downloaded on 15 December 2018.
2. Iranolacerta brandtii at the Reptarium.cz Reptile Database. Accessed 15 December 2018.
3. Beolens B, Watkins M, Grayson M (2011). The Eponym Dictionary of Reptiles. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. xiii + 296 pp. ISBN   978-1-4214-0135-5. (Iranolacerta brandtii, p. 37).

Further reading

• Arnold EN, Arribas OJ, Carranza S (2007). "Systematics of the Palaearctic and Oriental lizard tribe Lacertini (Squamata: Lacertidae: Lacertinae), with descriptions of eight new genera". Zootaxa1430: 1–86. (Iranolacerta brandtii, new combination, p. 46).
• Avci A, Ilgaz Ç, Bozkurt E, Üzüm N, Olgun K (2015). "A New Record of Iranolacerta brandtii (De Filippi, 1863) (Sauria: Lacertidae) in Eastern Anatolia Turkey". Russian Journal of Herpetology22 (1): 68–74.
• De Filippi F (1863). "Nuove o poco note specie di animali vertebrati raccolte in un viaggio in Persia nell' estate dell' anno 1862 [= New or Little-known Species of Vertebrate Animals Collected on a Journey in Persia in the Summer of the Year 1862]". Archivio per la Zoologia l'Anatomia e la Fisiologia2: 377–394. (Lacerta brandtii, new species, p. 387). (in Italian and Latin).
• Nilson G, Rastegar-Pouyani N, Rastegar-Pouyani E, Andrén C (2003). "Lacertas of south and central Zagros Mountains, Iran, with description of two new taxa". Russian J. Herpetol.10 (1): 11–24. (Lacerta brandtii esfahanica, new subspecies, pp. 15–18, Figure 2).
• Sindaco R, Jeremčenko VK (2008). The Reptiles of the Western Palearctic. 1. Annotated Checklist and Distributional Atlas of the Turtles, Crocodiles, Amphisbaenians and Lizards of Europe, North Africa, Middle East and Central Asia. (Monographs of the Societas Herpetologica Italica). Latina, Italy: Edizioni Belvedere. 580 pp. ISBN   978-88-89504-14-7. (Lacerta brandti).