Published November 29, 2018 | Version v1
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Cyrtopodion gastropholis

  • 1. Department of Biology, Faculty of Science, Razi University, Kermanshah (Iran) na. eskandarzadeh @ gmail. com (corresponding author)
  • 2. Department of Biology, Faculty of Science, Razi University, Kermanshah (Iran)
  • 3. Biology, Faculty of Science, Hakim sabzevari University, Sabzevar (Iran)
  • 4. Department of Biology, Faculty of Science, Yasouj University, Yasouj (Iran)
  • 5. Biology, Faculty of Science, Ferdowsi University of Mashhad, Mashhad (Iran)
  • 6. Biology, Faculty of Sciences, Lorestan University, Khorramabad (Iran)

Description

Cyrtopodion gastropholis (Werner, 1917)

Gymnodactylus gastropholis Werner, 1917: 194.

COMMON NAME. — Fars Spider Gecko.

HOLOTYPE. — ZFMK 27095.

TYPE LOCALITY. — Fars Province.

DISTRIBUTION. — Anderson (1999) stated that it is known only from the holotype and five paratypes from the coastal plain of the Persian Gulf in Fars Province. According to Smid et al. (2014) it is distributed in Bushehr, Hormozgan, Fars, and Kohgiluyeh and Boyer Ahmad Provinces.

HABITAT. — Anderson (1999) collected a single specimen in a mudbrick building that was constructed as a shelter over a well which was located at the margin of the coastal plain.

IUCN. — Data deficient.

REFERENCES. — Werner (1917); Anderson (1999); Ahmadzadeh et al. (2011b); Smid et al. (2014).

REMARKS

According to Ahmadzadeh et al. (2011b) a close relationship is suggested between this species and C. kiabii Ahmadzadeh, Flecks, Torki & Böhme, 2011.

Notes

Published as part of Eskandarzadeh, Naeimeh, Rastegar-Pouyani, Nasrullah, Rastegar-Pouyani, Eskandar, Fathinia, Behzad, Bahmani, Zahed, Hamidi, Kordiyeh & Gholamifard, Ali, 2018, Annotated checklist of the endemic Tetrapoda species of Iran, pp. 507-537 in Zoosystema 40 (24) on page 512, DOI: 10.5252/zoosystema2018v40a24, http://zenodo.org/record/4336795

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References

  • ANDERSON S. C. 1999. - The Lizards of Iran. Society for the study of amphibians and reptiles, Ithaca, New York, USA. 442 p.
  • AHMADZADEH F., FLECKS M., TORKI F. & BOHME W. 2011 b. - A new species of angular-toed gecko, genus Cyrtopodion (Squamata: Gekkonidae), from southern Iran. Zootaxa 2924: 22 - 32.