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Cyrtopodion

Description

Cyrtopodion (22 species)

Composition: C. agamuroides* (Nikolsky), C. aravallense (Gill), C. baigii Masroor, C. belaense Nazarov, Ananjeva, & Papenfuss, C. brevipes (Blanford), C. fortmunroi # (Khan), C. gastrophole* (Werner), C. golubevi* Nazarov, Ananjeva, & Rajabizadeh, C. indusoani # (Khan), C. kachhense (Stoliczka) (C. k. ingoldbyi (Procter)), C. kiabii* Ahmadzadeh, Flecks, Torki & Böhme, C. kirmanense (Nikolsky), C. kohsulaimanai (Khan), C. mansarulum (Duda & Sahi), C. montiumsalsorum (Annandale), C. persepolense* Nazarov, Ananjeva, & Rajabizadeh, 2010, C. potoharense Khan, C. rhodocauda # (Baig), C. rohtasfortai # (Khan & Tasnim), C. scabrum (Heyden), C. sistanense Nazarov & Rajabizadeh, C. watsoni (Murray)

Distribution: northeastern Egypt, Sinai, eastern Turkey, Israel, Jordan, Syria, Azerbaijan, Arabian Peninsula, Iraq, Iran, Afghanistan, Central Asia, Pakistan, northern India, introduced on Red Sea coast of Africa

Comments: We include the apparently monophyletic agamuroides clade sensu Anderson (1999) (taxa marked by asterisks) within Cyrtopodion based on the phylogenetic results of Červenka et al. (2010). All members of Indogekko sensu Khan (2003c) except longipes and voraginosus are also subsumed within Cyrtopodion (see text). We suggest the use of Indogekko as a subgeneric name for most of those species assigned to it by Khan (2003c) (taxa marked by hash mark above).

Notes

Published as part of Bauer, Aaron M., Masroor, Rafaqat, Titus-Mcquillan, James, Heinicke, Matthew P., Daza, Juan D. & Jackman, Todd R., 2013, A preliminary phylogeny of the Palearctic naked-toed geckos (Reptilia: Squamata: Gekkonidae) with taxonomic implications, pp. 301-324 in Zootaxa 3599 (4) on page 318, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3599.4.1, http://zenodo.org/record/217999

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Biodiversity

Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Chordata
Order
Squamata
Family
Gekkonidae
Genus
Cyrtopodion
Taxon rank
genus