. Asiatic herpetological research. Reptiles -- Asia Periodicals; Amphibians -- Asia Periodicals. 1999 Asiatic Herpetological Research Vol. 8, pp. 85-89 First Record of the Lacertid Acanthodactylus boskianus (Sauria: Lacertidae) for Iran Nasrullah Rastegar-Pouyani Department of Zoology, Goteborg University. Box 463, SE 405 30 Goteborg, Sweden The first record of the lacertid li/.ard Acanthodactylus boskianus for Iran is presented based on material collected by the author in 1995 and 1996 from 2 km west of Harsin, Kermanshah province, western Iran, on the Astragalus -covered sandy hil
. Asiatic herpetological research. Reptiles -- Asia Periodicals; Amphibians -- Asia Periodicals. 1999 Asiatic Herpetological Research Vol. 8, pp. 85-89 First Record of the Lacertid Acanthodactylus boskianus (Sauria: Lacertidae) for Iran Nasrullah Rastegar-Pouyani Department of Zoology, Goteborg University. Box 463, SE 405 30 Goteborg, Sweden The first record of the lacertid li/.ard Acanthodactylus boskianus for Iran is presented based on material collected by the author in 1995 and 1996 from 2 km west of Harsin, Kermanshah province, western Iran, on the Astragalus -covered sandy hills at about 1420 m elevation. Systematics and distribution of this lizard are discussed and its conventional known subspecies are questioned. Key Acanthodactylus boskianus, Lacertidae, Subspecies, province, Harsin, Systematics, Distribution. New record. Western Iran, Kermanshah. Figurel. The distribution of Acanthodactylus boskianus in north Africa and the Middle East. Introduction The lacertid genus Acanthodactylus Wiegman, 1834 consists of about 30 species, distributed from Spain and Portugal across the Sahara desert and its periph- ery to the Red Sea, over most of Arabia and as far north as Cyprus and the Syrian-Turkish border; it also extends through Iraq, southern, and eastern Iran, southern Afghanistan. Pakistan and northwestern India (Arnold, 1983). Apart from the present record, four additional spe- cies of this genus occur in Iran, mainly in southern and eastern parts of the country (A. micropholis, A. grandis, A. schmidti, and A. blanfordi) (Anderson, 1974; Anderson, in press; Salvador, 1982). As well, A. opheodurus Arnold, may occur in lowland south- western Iran (Anderson, in press). The genus is Saharo-Sindian in its affinities and distribution and does not penetrate to a great extent into the Iranian Plateau and only two species go beyond the plateau as far east as Afghanistan, Pakistan, and northwestern India (A. cantoris and A. micropholis) (Clark, 1990;
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