Stenodactylus Fitzinger, 1826

Šmíd, Jiří, Moravec, Jiří, Kodym, Petr, Kratochvíl, Lukáš, Yousefkhani, Seyyed Saeed Hosseinian, Rastegar-Pouyani, Eskandar & Frynta, Daniel, 2014, Annotated checklist and distribution of the lizards of Iran, Zootaxa 3855 (1), pp. 1-97 : 25

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scientific name	Stenodactylus Fitzinger, 1826
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Stenodactylus affinis ( Murray, 1884)

SYNTYPES. BMNH 1946.8 .23.33 (ex. BMNH 84.7.25.1), BMNH 1946.8 .23.60 (ex. BMNH 87.9.22.2).

TYPE LOCALITY. Tanjistan, Persia [Tangestan, Bushehr Prov., Iran].

DISTRIBUTION. Iraq, Kuwait, Iran.

DISTRIBUTION IN IRAN. Fig. 62 View FIGURES 62–67. 62 . Restricted to the Mesopotamian Plain (Ilam, Khuzestan Prov.) and areas along the Persian Gulf coast (Bushehr and Hormozgan Prov.) .

HABITAT. The Iranian specimens were caught in “... a gravelled site on gypsum foothills with Alhagi camelorum vegetation” ( Fathinia et al. 2009), under stones in a cultivated field and on an unpaved road ( Anderson 1999).

REMARKS. The closest relatives of S. affinis are S. grandiceps from the Levant and S. slevini from the Arabian Peninsula ( Metallinou et al. 2012).

REFERENCES. Arnold (1980a); Anderson (1999); Torki (2010d); Metallinou et al. (2012); Hosseinian Yousefkhani et al. (2013b); Kamali (2013a).

References

Anderson, S. C. (1999) The lizards of Iran. Society for the Study of Amphibians and Reptiles, Oxford, Ohio, 442 pp.

Arnold, E. N. (1980 a) Reptiles of Saudi Arabia. A review of the lizard genus Stenodactylus (Reptilia: Gekkonidae). Fauna of Saudi Arabia, 2, 368 - 404.

Fathinia, B., Rastegar-Pouyani, N., Sampour, M., Bahrami, A. M. & Jaafari, G. (2009) The lizard fauna of the Ilam province, southwestern Iran. Iranian Journal of Animal Biosystematics, 5, 65 - 79.

Kamali, K. (2013 a) Geographic distribution: Stenodactylus affinis (Iranian Short-fingered Gecko). Herpetological Review, 44, 274.

Metallinou, M., Arnold, E. N., Crochet, P. A., Geniez, P., Brito, J. C., Lymberakis, P., Baha El Din, S., Sindaco, R., Robinson, M. & Carranza, S. (2012) Conquering the Sahara and Arabian deserts: systematics and biogeography of Stenodactylus geckos (Reptilia: Gekkonidae). BMC Evolutionary Biology, 12, 258. http: // dx. doi. org / 10.1186 / 1471 - 2148 - 12 - 258

Murray, J. A. (1884) Addition to the present knowledge of the vertebrate zoology of Persia. Annals and Magazine of Natural History, 14, 97 - 106. http: // dx. doi. org / 10.1080 / 00222938409459776

Torki, F. (2010 d) Notes on sexual size dimorphism in the Iranian Short-fingered Gecko Stenodactylus affinis (Reptilia, Gekkonidae). Herpetological Bulletin, 113, 30 - 33.