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

publication ID

https://dx.doi.org/10.3897/herpetozoa.32.e38171

publication LSID

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persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/76846A25-228E-59D8-8F79-80EF38830FEC

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scientific name

Altiphylax levitoni (Golubev & Szczerbak, 1979)
status

 

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 View Figure 6 ) 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).

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Chordata

Class

Reptilia

Order

Squamata

Family

Gekkonidae

Genus

Altiphylax