we collected 60 adult males and 85 adult females of trapelus lessonae de filippi, 1863 in early may 2008 from central iranian plateau to study sexual dimorphism in morphological traits as well as female reproductive traits. size-related sexual dimorphism occurred in all the compared body dimensions. the largest female was 83.88 mm in snout-vent length, and the largest male was 73.12 mm. as well...

the indian garden lizard has been recorded as herpetofauna of iran but the only existing records belong to far years before in which balnford (1870) and zarudny (1903) recorded 2-3 specimens in sistan and baluchestan province of iran. afterward, there were no records on the species in the country. based on the existing records the mentioned localities were investigated for years and using the i...

We provide a diversity assessment of the agamid genus Phrynocephalus Kaup, 1825. analyze COI mtDNA barcodes from 385 individuals sampled all over range. apply ABGD, ASAP, bGMYC, mlPTP and hsPTP species delimitation algorithms to gene fragment variation assess in Phrynocephalus. Nine groups are revealed agreement with earlier studies on phylogenetic relationships genus. demonstrate that present ...