Altiphylax levitoni (Golubev & Szczerbak, 1979)

Jablonski, Daniel, Regan, John M., Holzheuser, Chace, Farooqi, Javeed, Basit, Abdul & Masroor, Rafaqat, 2019, Additional data to the herpetofauna of Afghanistan, Herpetozoa 32, pp. 177-193 : 177

Altiphylax levitoni (Golubev & Szczerbak, 1979)

Distribution in Afghanistan.

Known only from three provinces in the central-eastern part of the country (Ghazni, Kabul, Logar; Wagner et al. 2016)

Our records.

Darul Aman - Kabul, Kabul (20 May 2011), one adult and one subadult individual ( Fig. 6A ) were observed in the rocky area of the Darul Aman palace ruins.

Remarks.

This species is known from Kabul city and its vicinity. Our record clearly falls in close proximity of known localities for the species. Therefore, we did not map this record. This species is mentioned as " Unidentified Gecko " in Regan (2017; p. 29).

Figures

Figure 6. Observed species of the Gekkonidae family from Afghanistan: A - subadult individual of Altiphylax levitoni from Darul Aman - Kabul, Kabul; B - juvenile individual of Cyrtopodion scabrum from Kandahar, Air Base, Kandahar; C, D - subadult individual of C. agamuroides complex from Camp Leatherneck, Washir, Helmand; E - adult individual of C. watsoni from Camp Dubs - Kabul, Kabul; F - adult individual of C. scabrum from Darul Aman - Kabul, Kabul; G - adult individual of C. scabrum from Lashkargah, Helmand; H - adult individual of C. scabrum from Camp Leatherneck, Washir, Helmand; I - adult individual of Tenuidactylus caspius from Camp Mike Spann Chapel, Mazar-i-Sharif, Balkh.