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
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Zootaxa
2014
2014-08-20
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journal article
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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)
.