Hemidactylus persicus Anderson, 1872

Gholamifard, Ali & Rastegar-Pouyani, Nasrullah, 2011, Distribution of Hemidactylus geckos (Reptilia: Gekkonidae) in Fars Province, Southern Iran, Amphibian & Reptile Conservation 5 (1), pp. 1-6 : 3

Hemidactylus persicus Anderson, 1872 . Persian gecko

The type locality of H. persicus is Iran but no exact locality was given. According to Smith (1935) the type specimen is from Shiraz in Fars Province ( Anderson 1999). This species is distributed in Coastal eastern Arabia north to southern Iran and Iraq, east to Sind and Wazirestan, Pakistan. In Iran it is known from Ilam, Khuzestan, Chaharmahal and Bakhtiari, Kohgiluyeh and Boyer Ahmad, Fars, Bushehr, Hormozgan, Kerman, and Sistan and Baluchistan Provinces ( Leviton et al. 1992; Anderson 1999; Rastegar-Pouyani et al. 2006, 2007). Hemidactylus persicus has been collected from five different localities in Fars Province ( Table 1). The northernmost records are from Shiraz and the southernmost records from Forg (Darab Township), close to Hormozgan Province. According to our data, it seems that of the three species, H. persicus has the largest distribution range of any Hemidactylus species in Fars Province.