Cyrtopodion scabrum (Heyden, 1827)

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 : 40

Taxon classification Animalia Squamata Gekkonidae

Cyrtopodion scabrum (Heyden, 1827) Figure 3A

Cyrtopodion scabrum Keeled rock gecko, rough-tailed gecko and rough thin-toed gecko

Remarks.

Mean snout-vent length 38.9 mm and tail 49.2 mm.

This species has a wide distribution range from Egypt through southwest Asia to northwestern India ( Anderson 1999). It is mostly distributed in western Iran, rarely found out of residential places, and it is the most common house gecko in western Iran ( Anderson 1999). Caves are not the common habitat for this gecko, but we could observe this species at two caves in Ilam and Fars provinces (Table 1). Darhamreh cave is limestone cave with a small and bright entrance. Internal environment of this cave is completely dry and there is no water. The other cave (Sangeshkan) is a system of artificial underground spaces (disused sandstone mines) in a hill at the southern margin of Jahrom town (Fars province). The cave consists of some chambers with broken and fallen ceilings, creating a number of smaller spaces, fissures and crevices, well useful as roosts.