Asaccus authenticus, Nazarov & Nabizadeh & Rajabizadeh & Melnikov & Volkova & Poyarkov & Rastegar-Pouyani, 2024

Nazarov, Roman A., Nabizadeh, Hossein, Rajabizadeh, Mehdi, Melnikov, Daniel A., Volkova, Valentina R., Poyarkov, Nikolay A. & Rastegar-Pouyani, Eskandar, 2024, Taxonomy of Iranian Asaccus (Squamata: Phyllodactylidae) with description of a new species from southern Iran, Zootaxa 5514 (2), pp. 101-128 : 112

Asaccus authenticus sp. nov.

( Fig. 5i , Fig. 6 , Fig. 7a ; Fig. 9b , Table 4).

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FIGURE 5. The arrangement of the mental scalation in Asaccus species. Drawings are based on photographs of type specimens and illustrations from the original descriptions of the examined Asaccus species. For details see Supplementary Table S1.

FIGURE 6. Asaccus authenticus sp. nov.: a—general view of the holotype ZMMU R-17675 (RAN 3400) in preservative; b, c, d—dorsal, lateral, and ventral aspects of the head of the holotype; e—general view of the type series in preservative.

FIGURE 7. Asaccus authenticus sp. nov. (a) in situ, and (b) typical biotope with Acacia sp. trees and sandstone outcrops.

FIGURE 9. A new species of Asaccus authenticus sp. nov. in situ (b) with the some other representatives of the A. elisae spcies complex: A. iranicus (a), A. cf. elisae, Qasr-e Shirin (c–d); A. cf. elisae Basht (e–f); A. tangestanensis (g–h).