Tenuidactylus caspius ( Eichwald, 1831 )

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 caspius ( Eichwald, 1831)

LECTOTYPE. ZIL 3182, designated by Szczerbak & Golubev (1986).

TYPE LOCALITY. Baku, Azerbaijan.

DISTRIBUTION. Transcaucasia, S Russia, Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, N Afghanistan, and N and E Iran.

DISTRIBUTION IN IRAN. Fig. 65. W View FIGURES 62–67. 62 of the Caspian Sea, the eastern Alborz and Kopet Dagh ranges, along the Afghan border to the Zabol region in Sistan and Baluchistan Prov. Two isolated and dubious records from Kermanshah and Fars Prov. require further confirmation ( Szczerbak & Golubev 1996) .

HABITAT. Vertical cliffs and rocky faces; also found in anthropogenic habitats on brick walls, stone fences, and other abandoned structures as well as on inhabited buildings.

REFERENCES. Szczerbak & Golubev (1986, 1996); Kami (2005a); Červenka et al. (2008); Ahmadzadeh et al. (2008, 2010); Bauer et al. (2013); Hojati et al. (2013).

References

Ahmadzadeh, F., Kiabi, B. H., Kami, H. G. & Hojjati, V. (2008) A preliminary study of the lizard fauna and their habitats in northwestern Iran. Asiatic Herpetological Research, 11, 1 - 9.

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

Cervenka, J., Kratochvil, L. & Frynta, D. (2008) Phylogeny and taxonomy of the Middle Eastern geckos of the genus Cyrtopodion and their selected relatives. Zootaxa, 1931, 25 - 36.

Eichwald, K. E. I. (1831) Zoologia specialis quam exposites animalibus tum vivis, tum fossilibus potissimum Rossiae in universum, et Poloniae in specie. Vol. 3. Typis Josephi Zawadzki, Vilna, 404 pp.

Hojati, V., Parivar, K., Rastegar-Pouyani, E. & Shiravi, A. (2013) The oogenic cycle of the Caspian bent-toed gecko, Cyrtopodion caspium (Squamata: Gekkonidae) in Iran. Acta Herpetologica, 8, 1 - 8. http: // dx. doi. org / 10.13128 / Acta _ Herpetol- 11096

Kami, H. G. (2005 a) Geographic Distribution: Cyrtopodion caspium caspium (Caspian Bent-toed Gecko, or Caspian Thin-toed Gecko). Herpetological Review, 36, 79.

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.