Endangered
Darevskia kopetdaghica
Darevskia kopetdaghica
Darevskia kopetdaghica is a lizard or snake in the family Lacertidae, recorded as Endangered and tied to Iran.
The lizard or snake
It was scientifically described by.
This named form is a lizard or snake. The public files give taxonomy, a photograph, and a threat category — not a monograph.
Range and habitat
It is found in alpine herbaceous vegetation, in Acantholimon and Astragalus, also in rocky outcrops.
GBIF currently lists 6 occurrence points. Those points follow where people logged the taxon — museum drawers and surveys included — not a closed range boundary.
Pins are Wikidata “endemic to” fields. Orange dots, when present, are GBIF occurrence tiles — survey bias included.
In crisis
Darevskia kopetdaghica is Endangered on this catalog because that is the IUCN category stored on Wikidata. Confirm the official criteria and any later count on iucnredlist.org.
Sources
Written for this catalog from the English Wikipedia article on Darevskia kopetdaghica — often a short stub, Wikidata item Q16707792 and GBIF occurrence geography. Family and order context is original field-guide writing about the group, not a copied assessment of this one species. Wikipedia text is CC BY-SA. Not an IUCN assessment. Counts, when quoted, can change — confirm them on the recovery programme and on iucnredlist.org.
