Acanthodactylus blanfordii Boulenger, 1918 SYNTYPES. BMNH 1946.9.3.54–55, BMNH 1946.9.8.33–34, BMNH 1946.9.8.43–44. TYPE LOCALITY. Originally “Perse et Béloutchistan”; syntypes from Bam and Jask [Iran] and Dasht and Mand [Pakistan], although Boulenger (1921) listed only Bam and Mand. DISTRIBUTION. SE Iran, Afghanistan, Pakistan, and N Oman. DISTRIBUTION IN IRAN. Fig. 70. Hormozgan, Kerman, and Sistan and Baluchistan Prov. HABITAT. In Iran confined to lowland sandy habitats with scattered Acacia and Tamarix (Anderson 1999; Heidari & Kami 2009). REMARKS. Both morphology and DNA data recover A. blanfordii as a sister species of A. schmidti (Arnold 1983; Harris & Arnold 2000). REFERENCES. Salvador (1982); Arnold (1983); Anderson (1999); Rastegar-Pouyani et al. (2011a); Heidari et al. (2012a).

Published as part of Šmíd, Jiří, Moravec, Jiří, Kodym, Petr, Kratochvíl, Lukáš, Yousefkhani, Seyyed Saeed Hosseinian, Rastegar-Pouyani, Eskandar & Frynta, Daniel, 2014, Annotated checklist and distribution of the lizards of Iran, pp. 1-97 in Zootaxa 3855 (1) on page 27, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3855.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/4929701