Asaccus elisae ( Werner, 1895 )

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 : 41

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Asaccus elisae ( Werner, 1895)

SYNTYPES. BMNH 1946.8 .24.39 (ex. BMNH 95.3.2.3), NMW 17525 .

TYPE LOCALITY. Ruins of Niniveh [Ninawa], Ninawa Prov., Iraq .

DISTRIBUTION. S Turkey, Syria, Iraq, W Iran.

DISTRIBUTION IN IRAN. Fig. 118 View FIGURES 116–121. 116 . The Mesopotamian Plain west of the Zagros (Kermanshah, Ilam, Lorestan, Khuzestan, and Fars Prov.)

HABITAT. Gypsum and limestone deposits in valleys, caves, under bridges and on the house walls in a rocky mountain area at altitudes from 137 m to 1400 m ( Fathinia et al. 2009).

REMARKS. In the light of the current knowledge on Asaccus diversity, it is likely that some previous records of A. elisae from the central Zagros belong today to different species. Since none of the species recently described were compared with the old material it is not possible to retract them from A. elisae at least until they are morphologically examined and, potentially, re-determined. Phyllodactylus eugeniae Nikolsky (type locality Dezful and Abu-Garia, Khuzestan Prov.,) synonymized with A. elisae is more closely related to A. griseonotus than to A. elisae itself ( Papenfuss et al. 2010). Its taxonomic status should be reassessed in order to retain A. elisae monophyletic.

REFERENCES. Anderson (1999); Rastegar-Pouyani (2006); Fathinia et al. (2009); Parsa et al. (2009); Papenfuss et al. (2010); Torki (2010b, c).

References

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

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.

Papenfuss, T. J., Jackman, T. R., Bauer, A. M., Stuart, B. L., Robinson, M. D. & Parham, J. F. (2010) Phylogenetic relationships among species of Southwest Asian leaf-toed geckos (Asaccus). Proceedings of the California Academy of Sciences, 61, 587 - 596.

Parsa, H., Oraie, H., Khosravani, A. & Rastegar-Pouyani, N. (2009) Systematics and distribution of the Iranian Plateau leaftoed geckos of the genus Asaccus (Sauria: Gekkonidae). Iranian Journal of Animal Biosystematics, 5, 43 - 55.

Torki, F. (2010 b) Die Andreas-Zornatter Hierophis andreanus (Werner, 1917) im Westen des Iran. Sauria, 32, 27 - 32.

Werner, F. (1895) Ueber eine Sammlung von Reptilien aus Persien, Mesopotamien und Arabien. Verhandlungen der Zoologisch-Botanishen Gesellschaft in Wien, 45, 13 - 20.