Cyrtopodion watsoni (Murray, 1892)

Jablonski, Daniel, Regan, John M., Holzheuser, Chace, Farooqi, Javeed, Basit, Abdul & Masroor, Rafaqat, 2019, Additional data to the herpetofauna of Afghanistan, Herpetozoa 32, pp. 177-193 : 177

Cyrtopodion watsoni (Murray, 1892)

Distribution in Afghanistan.

This species is known from two provinces; Nangarhar and Khost ( Wagner et al. 2016; Fig. 5 ).

Our records

( Fig. 5 ). Camp Dubs - Kabul, Kabul (20 May 2011), one adult and subadult ( Fig. 6E ) individual on the buildings of the camp.

Remarks.

This is the first record for Kabul Province and complements the species distribution in the north-eastern part of the country. This species is mentioned in Regan (2017) on p. 25.

Figures

Figure 5. Updated herpetofaunistic records from Afghanistan (white dots: Wagner et al. 2016 and Jablonski et al. 2019; red dots: data of this study). Cyrtopodion agamuroides complex: Camp Leatherneck, Washir, Helmand (first country record; cf. Smid et al. 2014). Cyrtopodion scabrum: 1 - Darul Aman - Kabul, Kabul; 2 - Camp Leatherneck, Washir, Helmand; 3 - Lashkargah, Helmand; 4 - Kandahar, Air Base, Kandahar. Cyrtopodion watsoni: Camp Dubs - Kabul, Kabul. Eremias nigrocellata: Kaldar, Balkh. Eremias persica: 1 - Gardez Base, Gardez, Paktia; 2 - Waza Kwah, Paktika; 3 - Kandahar, Air Base, Kandahar; 4 - Lashkargah, Helmand. Mesalina watsonana: 1 - Lashkargah, Helmand; 2 - Kandahar, Air Base, Kandahar.

Figure 6. Observed species of the Gekkonidae family from Afghanistan: A - subadult individual of Altiphylax levitoni from Darul Aman - Kabul, Kabul; B - juvenile individual of Cyrtopodion scabrum from Kandahar, Air Base, Kandahar; C, D - subadult individual of C. agamuroides complex from Camp Leatherneck, Washir, Helmand; E - adult individual of C. watsoni from Camp Dubs - Kabul, Kabul; F - adult individual of C. scabrum from Darul Aman - Kabul, Kabul; G - adult individual of C. scabrum from Lashkargah, Helmand; H - adult individual of C. scabrum from Camp Leatherneck, Washir, Helmand; I - adult individual of Tenuidactylus caspius from Camp Mike Spann Chapel, Mazar-i-Sharif, Balkh.