Tenuidactylus longipes ( Nikolsky, 1896 )

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 : 26

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Tenuidactylus longipes ( Nikolsky, 1896)

LECTOTYPE. ZIL 8810, designated by Szczerbak & Golubev (1986).

TYPE LOCALITY. Neh [Nehbandan], South Khorasan Prov., Iran.

DISTRIBUTION. Turkmenistan, E Iran, W Afghanistan.

DISTRIBUTION IN IRAN. Fig. 66 View FIGURES 62–67. 62 . Border region by Afghanistan and Pakistan (Khorasan Razavi, South Khorasan, Sistan and Baluchistan Prov.); two records from the central deserts (extreme eastern Yazd and Khorasan Razavi Prov. ) .

HABITAT. Iranian specimens were collected on walls of mud-brick buildings and between rocks on bare, rocky hills in dry, open country ( Anderson 1999).

REMARKS. The Iranian populations are assigned to the subspecies T. l. longipes . Tenuidactylus voraginosus (Leviton & Anderson) , an Afghan species previously considered a subspecies of T. longipes , is now regarded a full species ( Bauer et al. 2013).

REFERENCES. Leviton & Anderson (1984); Szczerbak & Golubev (1986, 1996); Anderson (1999); Bauer et al. (2013).

References

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

Bauer, A. M., Masroor, R., Titus-Mcquillan, J., Heinicke, M. P., Daza, J. D. & Jackman, T. R. (2013) A preliminary phylogeny of the Palearctic naked-toed geckos (Reptilia: Squamata: Gekkonidae) with taxonomic implications. Zootaxa, 3599 (4), 301 - 324. http: // dx. doi. org / 10.11646 / zootaxa. 3599.4.1

Leviton, A. E. & Anderson, S. C. (1984) Description of a new species of Cyrtodactylus from Afghanistan with remarks on the status of Gymnodactylus longipes and Cyrtodactylus fedtschenkoi. Journal of Herpetology, 18, 270 - 276. http: // dx. doi. org / 10.2307 / 1564080

Nikolsky, A. M. (1896) Diagnoses Reptilium et Amphibiorum novorum in Persia orientali a N. Zarudny collectorum. Annuaire Musee Zoologique de l'Academie Imperiale des Sciences de St. - Petersbourg, 1, 369 - 372.

Szczerbak, N. N. & Golubev, M. L. (1986) The Gecko Fauna of the USSR and Adjacent Regions. Nauka Dymka, Kiev, 232 pp., 8 pls. [in Russian]

Szczerbak, N. N. & Golubev, M. L. (1996) Gecko fauna of the USSR and contiguous regions. Society for the Study of Amphibians and Reptiles, Oxfor, Ohio, 233 pp.