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Hemidactylus lavadeserticus Moravec & Bohme 1997
Description
Hemidactylus lavadeserticus Moravec & Böhme, 1997 (new status)
Figs. 5 (C–D)
Hemidactylus turcicus lavadeserticus — Moravec and Böhme (1997), Disi et al. (2001), Moravec (2002), Baha El Din (2005), Amr et al. (2007), Sindaco and Jeremčenko (2008).
Holotype. NMP 6 V 35540/1. Type locality: Ar’Raqiyeh, 32°48’N, 37°05’E, Muhafazat of Sweida, Syria.
Paratypes. NMP 6 V 34831/1, NMP 6 V 35540/2–4, ZFMK 64409, the same locality as holotype.
Note. At present, H. lavadeserticus is known only from its type locality in the basalt desert of southern Syria. However, its occurrence in the basalt fields of northeastern Jordan and northern Saudi Arabia is expected.
Notes
Published as part of Moravec, Jiří, Kratochvíl, Lukáš, Amr, Zuair S., Jandzik, David, Šmíd, Jiří & Gvoždík, Václav, 2011, High genetic differentiation within the Hemidactylus turcicus complex (Reptilia: Gekkonidae) in the Levant, with comments on the phylogeny and systematics of the genus, pp. 21-38 in Zootaxa 2894 on page 28, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.204390
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Additional details
Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Family
- Gekkonidae
- Genus
- Hemidactylus
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Order
- Squamata
- Phylum
- Chordata
- Scientific name authorship
- Moravec & Bohme
- Species
- lavadeserticus
- Taxon rank
- species
- Taxonomic concept label
- Hemidactylus lavadeserticus Moravec, 1997 sec. Moravec, Kratochvíl, Amr, Jandzik, Šmíd & Gvoždík, 2011
References
- Moravec, J. & Bohme, W. (1997) A new subspecies of the Mediterranean gecko Hemidactylus turcicus from the Syrian lava desert (Squamata: Sauria: Gekkonidae). Herpetozoa, 10, 121 - 128.
- Disi, A. M., Modry, D., Necas, P. & Rifai, L. (2001) Amphibians and Reptiles of the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan. An Atlas and Field Guide. Chimaira, Frankfurt am Main, 408 pp.
- Moravec, J. (2002) A new subspecies of the Sinai Agama Pseudotrapelus sinaitus from southern Syria and northern Jordan (Reptilia: Squamata: Sauria: Agamidae). Faunistische Abhandlungen des Staatlichen Museum fur Tierkunde Dresden, 23, 131 - 140.
- Baha El Din, S. (2005) An overview of Egyptian species of Hemidactylus (Gekkonidae), with the description of a new species from the high mountains of South Sinai. Zoology in the Middle East, 34, 11 - 26.
- Amr, Z. S., Modry, D., Abu Baker, M., Qarqas, M., Al Zaidanyen, J. & Moravec, J. (2007) First record of Hemidactylus mindiae Baha El Din, 2005 from Jordan. Herpetozoa, 20, 73 - 75.
- Sindaco, R. & Jeremcenko, V. K. (2008) The Reptiles of the Western Palearctic 1. Annotated Checklist and Distributional Atlas of the Turtles, Crocodiles, Amphisbaenians and Lizards of Europe, North Africa, Middle East and Central Asia. Edizioni Belvedere, Latina, 579 pp.