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 Mediodactylus Szczerbak & Golubev, 1977 Mediodactylus aspratilis ( Anderson, 1973 ) HOLOTYPE . USNM 193961 . TYPE LOCALITY. 35 km E Gach Saran, Fars Prov. , Iran . DISTRIBUTION. Endemic to Iran . DISTRIBUTION IN IRAN . Fig. 48 . SW Iran W of the Zagros. This gecko was for long thought to be distributed only in Fars and Kohgiluyeh and Boyer Ahmad Prov. ( Anderson 1999 ; Sindaco & Jeremčenko 2008 ), but recent extensive field work in western Iran resulted in numerous new records from Kermanshah , Hamadan , and Lorestan Prov. ( Kami 1999 ; Nazari-Serenjeh & Torki 2008a ; Torki 2010b ; Karamiani & Rastegar-Pouyani 2011 ). HABITAT. Rocky Zagros foothill regions with sparse vegetation where the geckos seek for shelter in rock crevices and between boulders; also found on a wall of a residential building ( Kami 1999 ; Karamiani & Rastegar-Pouyani 2011 ). REMARKS. Originally described as Bunopus , but later on reassigned to the genus Carinatogecko ( Golubev & Szczerbak 1981 ) , which has been, in turn, synonymized with Mediodactylus by Červenka et al. (2010). However, many authors do not accept this later synonymization and consider Carinatogecko a valid genus (see comments by Torki (2011)), but without any support from phylogenetic analyses. Based on a distribution of key characters among examined specimens, Červenka et al. (2010) also tentatively concluded that M. aspratilis might be a junior synonym of M. heteropholis . REFERENCES. Anderson (1973 , 1999 ); Golubev & Szczerbak (1981) ; Kami (1999) ; Nazari-Serenjeh & Torki (2008a) ; Červenka et al. (2010); Karamiani & Rastegar-Pouyani (2011) .