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

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. 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).