Cyrtopodion Fitzinger, 1843

Šmíd, Jiří, Moravec, Jiří, Kodym, Petr, Kratochvíl, Lukáš, Yousefkhani, Seyyed Saeed Hosseinian, Rastegar-Pouyani, Eskandar & Frynta, Daniel, 2014, Annotated checklist and distribution of the lizards of Iran, Zootaxa 3855 (1), pp. 1-97 : 16

Cyrtopodion Fitzinger, 1843

A relatively species-rich genus (26 species; Uetz 2013) that previously encompassed also members of Mediodactylus and Tenuidactylus , in some studies treated as subgenera but currently recognized as distinct (see below). The Iranian species of Cyrtopodion (sensu stricto) were on the basis of morphological differentiation divided into two groups: the agamuroides group and the scabrum group ( Szczerbak & Golubev 1986; Anderson 1999). The agamuroides group currently contains five species: C. agamuroides , C. gastropholis , C. golubevi , C. kiabii , and C. persepolense ; four species are known to belong to the scabrum group: C. brevipes , C. kachhense , C. scabrum , and C. sistanense ( Nazarov & Rajabizadeh 2007; Bauer et al. 2013). Cyrtopodion hormozganum was recognized as an intermediate form between the two groups ( Nazarov et al. 2012), and the assignment of C. kirmanense is unknown.