Agamura persica (Duméril, 1856)

SYNTYPES. MNHN 6761 (3 spec.) (Anderson 1999), although no such number in the MNHN catalogue.

TYPE LOCALITY. Persia.

DISTRIBUTION. Iran, Afghanistan, Pakistan.

DISTRIBUTION IN IRAN. Fig. 29. Throughout most of the Iranian Plateau W of the Zagros and S of the Alborz and Kopet Dagh; apparently absent from the central desert system; isolated records from coastal Hormozgan Prov.

HABITAT. Stony terrain, cliffs and rocky terraces, hillsides also barren plains and gravely alluvium with sparse shrubby vegetation (Minton 1966; Anderson 1999)

REMARKS. Agamura is a monotypic genus phylogenetically close to Bunopus, Crossobamon, Cyrtopodion, and Tenuidactylus . Červenka et al. (2008) placed Agamura to a sister position with Cyrtopodion . Nevertheless, Bauer et al. (2013) recognized Bunopus and Crossobamon being closer to Agamura, and yet another study came up with Agamura as a sister genus to a clade consisting of all the other four above listed genera (Gamble et al. 2012).

REFERENCES. Anderson (1999, 2000); Červenka et al. (2008); Gamble et al. (2012); Bauer et al. (2013).