Mediodactylus aff. spinicaudus (Strauch, 1887)

Wagner, Philipp, Bauer, Aaron M., Leviton, Alan E., Wilms, Thomas M. & Böhme, Wolfgang, 2016, A Checklist of the Amphibians and Reptiles of Afghanistan *, Proceedings of the California Academy of Sciences 63 (13), pp. 457-565 : 489

Mediodactylus aff. spinicaudus (Strauch, 1887:58, pl. 1, figs. 15–16)

1887 Alsophylax spinicauda Strauch, Bemerkungen über die Geckoniden-Sammlung im zoologischen Museum der kaiserlichen Akademie der Wissenschaften zu St. Petersburg. Mémoires de l’Académie Impériale des Sciences de St. Pétersbourg, ser. 7, 35(2): (2), 1–72, 1 pl.

HOLOTYPE.— ZISP 4047 from, “Schahrud”, Iran.

LOCALITIES.— Dasht-e-Nawar ( ZFMK 13323, see Fig. 16 for distribution).

REMARKS.— The specimen was identified as “ Cyrtopodion spinicauda ” by M. Golubev and would represent a first record of the species in Afghanistan. However the locality is far away from the known range of the species in Iran and Turkmenistan and a more detailed study of the specimen is in need to clarify its status.