Cyrtopodion gastrophole (Werner, 1917)

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 : 41-42

publication ID

https://dx.doi.org/10.3897/subtbiol.18.8185

publication LSID

lsid:zoobank.org:pub:1FBFF48E-EA5D-4051-907E-EB5803835F79

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/B1943F05-9E61-031E-FBDA-5BEA2A63EE43

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scientific name

Cyrtopodion gastrophole (Werner, 1917)
status

 

Taxon classification Animalia Squamata Gekkonidae

Cyrtopodion gastrophole (Werner, 1917) View in CoL Figure 3B

Cyrtopodion gastrophole Werner’s bent-toed gecko, Persian Spider-gecko

Remarks.

Mean snout-vent length 44.8 mm, tail 54.5 mm.

This species is an endemic species for Iran, known only from its type locality, the Fars province. But we collected this species in a cave in Bushehr province. We collected this species inside Dalaki cave, in humid and cool places used as a shelter for physiological thermoregulation during mid-day hours. Usually active at night but in the middle of the day it was found in shaded areas and feed on Lepidoptera insects.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Chordata

Class

Squamata

Family

Gekkonidae

Genus

Cyrtopodion