Darevskia steineri

Darevskia steineri
Conservation status
	; Data Deficient (IUCN 3.1)[1]
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Reptilia
Order:	Squamata
Family:	Lacertidae
Genus:	Darevskia
Species:	D. steineri
Binomial name
	Darevskia steineri; (Eiselt, 1995)
Synonyms[2]
	Lacerta steineri ; Eiselt, 1995; Lacerta (Archaeolacerta) steineri ; — Tiedemann & Grillitsch, 1999; Darevskia steineri ; — Arnold, Arribas & Carranza, 2007;

Darevskia steineri, also known commonly as Steiner's lizard, is a species of lizard in the family Lacertidae. The species is endemic to Iran.[2]

Etymology

The specific name, steineri, is in honor of Austrian herpetologist Hans M. Steiner.[3]

D. steineri is found in northeastern Iran.[2]

The preferred natural habitats of D. steineri are forest and rocky areas.[1] It can be found on tree trunks and the forest floor in the Hyrcanian forest.[2]

D. steineri may attain a snout-to-vent length of 7 cm (2.8 in). It has a greenish belly, unlike the reddish bellies of closely related species.[2]

D. steineri is oviparous.[2]

Anderson S, Sharifi M, Papenfuss T, Bafti SS (2009). "Darevskia steineri ". The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2009: e.T164606A5911709. https://doi.org/10.2305/IUCN.UK.2009.RLTS.T164606A5911709.en. Downloaded on 26 May 2019.
Species Darevskia steineri at The Reptile Database www.reptile-database.org.
Beolens B, Watkins M, Grayson M (2011). The Eponym Dictionary of Reptiles. Baltimore, Maryland: Johns Hopkins University Press. xiii + 296 pp. ISBN 978-1-4214-0135-5. (Darevskia steineri, p. 252).

Arnold EN, Arribas O, Carranza S (2007). "Systematics of the Palaearctic and Oriental lizard tribe Lacertini (Squamata: Lacertidae: Lacertinae), with descriptions of eight new genera". Zootaxa 1430: 1–86. (Darevskia steineri, new combination).
Eiselt J (1995). "Ein Beitrag zur Kenntnis der Archaeolacerten (sensu Méhely, 1909) des Iran ". Herpetozoa 8 (1–2): 59–72. (Lacerta steineri, new species, pp. 63–64, 68, Plate 1). (in German, with an abstract in English).
Sindaco R, Jeremčenko VK (2009). The Reptiles of the Western Palearctic. 1. Annotated Checklist and Distributional Atlas of the Turtles, Crocodiles, Amphisbaenians and Lizards of Europe, North Africa, Middle East and Central Asia. (Monographs of the Societas Herpetologica Italica). Latina, Italy: Edizioni Belvedere. 580 pp. ISBN 978-88-89504-14-7.

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