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Iranolacerta brandtii (Persia Lizard)

Synonyms: Darevskia brandtii; Iranolacerta brandtii esfahanica (heterotypic); Lacerta brandtii; Lacerta brandtii esfahanica

Infraspecies

Iranolacerta brandtii brandtii
Iranolacerta brandtii esfahanica

Attributes

Habitat Substrate [1]  Terrestrial
Reproductive Mode [1]  Oviparous

Ecoregions

Name Countries Ecozone Biome Species Report Climate Land
Use
Caspian Hyrcanian mixed forests Iran, Azerbaijan Palearctic Temperate Broadleaf and Mixed Forests    
Eastern Anatolian montane steppe Iran, Turkey, Armenia Palearctic Temperate Grasslands, Savannas, and Shrublands
Zagros Mountains forest steppe Iran Palearctic Temperate Broadleaf and Mixed Forests

Biodiversity Hotspots

Name Location Endemic Species Website
Caucasus Armenia, Azerbaijan, Georgia, Iran, Russia, Turkey No
Irano-Anatolian Armenia, Azerbaijan, Georgia, Iran, Iraq, Turkey, Turkmenistan No

Range Map

External References

Citations

Attributes / relations provided by
♦ 1Meiri, Shai (2019), Data from: Traits of lizards of the world: variation around a successful evolutionary design, Dryad, Dataset, https://doi.org/10.5061/dryad.f6t39kj
Ecoregions provided by World Wide Fund For Nature (WWF). WildFinder: Online database of species distributions, ver. 01.06 Wildfinder Database
Biodiversity Hotspots provided by Critical Ecosystem Partnership Fund
Species taxanomy provided by GBIF Secretariat (2022). GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/39omei accessed via GBIF.org on 2023-06-13; License: CC BY 4.0