Paradactylodon persicus (Eiselt and Steiner, 1970)
Batrachuperus persicus Eiselt and Steiner, 1970, Ann. Naturhist. Mus. Wien, 74: 78. Holotype: NHMW 19435: 4, by original designation. Type locality: "Talysch-Gebirge bei Assalem, Prov. Ghilan, Iran, kleiner Bach, ca. 800 m. ü.d.M." (= Talysch Moutains near Assalem, Province of Ghilan, Iran, small creek about 800 meters elevation).
Paradactylodon persicus — Zhang, Chen, Zhou, Liu, Wang, Papenfuss, Wake, and Qu, 2006, Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA, 103: 7364.
English Names
Persia Mountain Salamander (Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 28).
Persian Brook Salamander (Ananjeva, Borkin, Darevsky, and Orlov, 1988, Dict. Amph. Rept. Five Languages: 20; Baloutch and Kami, 1995, Amph. Iran: 77).
Persian Mountain Salamander (Stuart, Hoffmann, Chanson, Cox, Berridge, Ramani, and Young, 2008, Threatened Amph. World: 637).
Distribution
Hyrcanian forests of the Talysch and Elburz mountains, 800-1500 m, Ghilan and Mazanderan provinces, Iran.
Comment
For accounts see Steiner, 1973, Salamandra, 9: 1-6; Baloutch and Kami, 1995, Amph. Iran: 77-80; Kami, 1999, Zool. Middle East, 19: 37-42; Thorn and Raffaëlli, 2000, Salamand. Ancien Monde: 121-122; and Raffaëlli, 2007, Les Urodèles du Monde: 58. See statement of geographic range, habitat, and conservation status (as Batrachuperus persicus) in Stuart, Hoffmann, Chanson, Cox, Berridge, Ramani, and Young, 2008, Threatened Amph. World: 637. Kami and Vakilpoure, 1996, Herpetol. Rev., 27: 147, provided a number of specific localities for Iran. Kami, 2004, Asiat. Herpetol. Res., 10: 182-190, reported on life history,
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