. Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology at Harvard College. Zoology. Figure 3. Agama persi'co sspp. Outline of head, lateral view, of: A, A. p. fieldi subspec. nov., MCZ 56866, 5 from Saudi Arabia (between Al-Gaisumoh and Turaif). B, A. cf. persica, MCZ 56860, 6 from Saudi Arabia (between Al-Gaisumah and Turaif). C, A. cf. persica, MCZ 56857, 5 from Iraq (Kish area). All drawn to same scale. Scale bar: 10 mm. three dark longitudinal bands along the whole trunk. Apparently the taxonomic unit persica is a composite; a revision of this group of populations (possibly, of species), based on
. Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology at Harvard College. Zoology. Figure 3. Agama persi'co sspp. Outline of head, lateral view, of: A, A. p. fieldi subspec. nov., MCZ 56866, 5 from Saudi Arabia (between Al-Gaisumoh and Turaif). B, A. cf. persica, MCZ 56860, 6 from Saudi Arabia (between Al-Gaisumah and Turaif). C, A. cf. persica, MCZ 56857, 5 from Iraq (Kish area). All drawn to same scale. Scale bar: 10 mm. three dark longitudinal bands along the whole trunk. Apparently the taxonomic unit persica is a composite; a revision of this group of populations (possibly, of species), based on all available material, is desirable. Agamo persica fieldi subsp. nov. Figure 3, A; Plates 2-6 (?)Afiama isolcpis Steindachner, 1917, Ann. k. Xaturhist. Miis. Wien, 31: 147-149, pi. (Mesopotamia: El Widian and Tekrit). k. 3. HoJotype. Male, MCZ 56866, between Al-Gaisumah and Turaif, Saudi Arabia. Collected by Field in 1950. Porafypcs. Six: mak>s, MCZ 56861-63 and 56867; females, MCZ 56864-65. Same locality and collector. Other material. Two: male, MCZ 56859; female, 56858. Same localitv and collector. Diafinosis: Differs from Agama persica persica Blanford 1881 in having a con- spicuous dorsal pattern of dark and light longitudinal bands and a distinct, though fainter, comparable ventral pattern; differs from A. agilis Olivier 1807 and A. isolepis Boulenger 1885 in the dorsal striped pat- tern and in that many specimens possess scattered enlarged dorsal scales. Description of hoJotype. A male. Head longer than broad, \\\\h \exy convex fore- head. Canthus rostralis continued as a superciliary ridge. Nostril on, barel\- above, the canthus, pierced in a flat shield. Upper head scales of two main types: anterior to the pineal spot, subimbricate, convex, some even pyramidal; posterior to the pineal spot, imbricate, keeled, and the most pos- terior mucronate. A double row of mucro- nate scales borders the ear from above and is continued to the end of the lateral sur- face of the
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