Annotated checklist and distribution of the lizards of Iran Author Šmíd, Jiří Author Moravec, Jiří Author Kodym, Petr Author Kratochvíl, Lukáš Author Yousefkhani, Seyyed Saeed Hosseinian Author Rastegar-Pouyani, Eskandar jirismd@gmail.com. Author Frynta, Daniel text Zootaxa 2014 2014-08-20 3855 1 1 97 journal article 4341 10.11646/zootaxa.3855.1.1 1f4f2c28-d4fa-487a-bf83-988cc35518ea 1175-5326 4929701 0E2D2B7C-7A96-4CAB-87F2-87A785F88D7F Tenuidactylus turcmenicus ( Szczerbak, 1978 ) HOLOTYPE . ZIK Re N o . 10. TYPE LOCALITY. Agashly near Kushka, Badghyz, Turkmenistan . DISTRIBUTION. Iran , Turkmenistan , Afghanistan . DISTRIBUTION IN IRAN . Fig. 67 . Known only from an unverified record from Gorgan , Golestan Prov. ( NHMW specimen), a locality remarkably distant from the rest of the species range in N Afghanistan . HABITAT. In Turkmenistan this gecko inhabits vertical limestone cliffs with predominantly southern exposure, it is absent from taluses and individual rocky boulders ( Szczerbak & Golubev 1996 ). REMARKS. The actual occurrence of T. turcmenicus in Iran needs to be proven. REFERENCES. Szczerbak & Golubev (1996) ; Anderson (1999) .