Asaccus elisae (Werner, 1895)

Esmaeili-Rineh, Somayeh, Akmali, Vahid, Fathipour, Farajollah, Heidari, Nastaran & Rastegar-Pouyani, Nasrullah, 2016, New distribution records of cave-dwelling gekkonid lizards (Sauria, Gekkonidae and Phyllodactylidae) in the Zagros Mountains of Iran, Subterranean Biology 18, pp. 39-47 : 42

Taxon classification Animalia Squamata Phyllodactylidae

Asaccus elisae (Werner, 1895) Figure 3C, D

Asaccus elisae Werner’s leaf-toed gecko

Remarks.

Mean snout-vent length 42.5 mm, tail 29.8 mm.

This species was mostly observed and collected in caves in Iran ( Anderson 1999). Other researchers ( Weber 1960, Wettstein and Löffler 1951) reported it as a house gecko in Iraq on the Mesopotamian plain. This species was collected in seven caves (Table 1). Six of them are limestone caves with dry and bright entrances. One of these cave (Zarinabad) have gypsum structure and at the time of the year there is running water inside it. Due to its tunnel-like shape air flows through it.