Rhinogekko femoralis
Description
Rhinogekko femoralis (Smith, 1933)
HOLOTYPE. BMNH 1946.8.20.48 (ex. BMNH 12.3.26.12).
TYPE LOCALITY. Kharan, Baluchistan, Pakistan.
DISTRIBUTION. Iran and Pakistan.
DISTRIBUTION IN IRAN. Fig. 60. Extreme eastern Sistan and Baluchistan Prov.
HABITAT. The only available information is from Pakistan by Minton (1966) who collected his specimens near rocky outcrops in sandy habitats.
REMARKS. The two Iranian localities of R. femoralis mentioned by Szczerbak & Golubev (1986; Koh-i Taftan and Mirjawe [Meer Jawe]), are doubted to be situated in Iran by Anderson (1999). The species is also not listed in the last country checklist (Rastegar-Pouyani et al. 2008). The Koh-i Taftan specimens were apparently collected at Taftan, a railway station in Pakistan about 2 km east of the border. Also de Witte (1980), who studied the material, states that all specimens were from W Pakistan. However, Mirjawe is a city in Iran about 2 km west of the Pakistani border and because precise location of the specimens cannot be specified, and the Iranian Mirjawe cannot be ruled out, we tentatively include this locality here as the only place in Iran this species is known from.
REFERENCES. Minton (1966); de Witte (1980); Szczerbak & Golubev (1996); Anderson (1999).
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Additional details
Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Collection code
- BMNH
- Material sample ID
- BMNH 1946.8
- Scientific name authorship
- Smith
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Order
- Squamata
- Family
- Gekkonidae
- Genus
- Rhinogekko
- Species
- femoralis
- Taxon rank
- species
- Type status
- holotype
- Taxonomic concept label
- Rhinogekko femoralis (Smith, 1933) sec. Šmíd, Moravec, Kodym, Kratochvíl, Yousefkhani, Rastegar-Pouyani & Frynta, 2014
References
- Smith, M. A. (1933) Remarks on some old world geckoes. Records of the Indian Museum, 35, 9 - 19.
- Minton, S. A. (1966) A contribution to the herpetology of West Pakistan. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History, 134, 27 - 184. http: // hdl. handle. net / 2246 / 1129
- Szczerbak, N. N. & Golubev, M. L. (1986) The Gecko Fauna of the USSR and Adjacent Regions. Nauka Dymka, Kiev, 232 pp., 8 pls. [in Russian]
- Anderson, S. C. (1999) The lizards of Iran. Society for the Study of Amphibians and Reptiles, Oxford, Ohio, 442 pp.
- Rastegar-Pouyani, N., Kami, H. G., Rajabzadeh, M., Shafiei, S. & Anderson, S. C. (2008) Annotated checklist of Amphibians and Reptiles of Iran. Iranian Journal of Animal Biosystematics, 4, 43 - 66.
- de Witte, G. F. (1980) Note relative a Rhinogekko misonnei de Witte et Agamura femoralis M. Smith: (Reptilia Sauria). Bulletin de l'Institut Royale des Sciences naturelles de Belgique, 52, 1 - 3.
- Szczerbak, N. N. & Golubev, M. L. (1996) Gecko fauna of the USSR and contiguous regions. Society for the Study of Amphibians and Reptiles, Oxfor, Ohio, 233 pp.