Mediodactylus heteropholis ( Minton, Anderson & Anderson, 1970 )

Šmíd, Jiří, Moravec, Jiří, Kodym, Petr, Kratochvíl, Lukáš, Yousefkhani, Seyyed Saeed Hosseinian, Rastegar-Pouyani, Eskandar & Frynta, Daniel, 2014, Annotated checklist and distribution of the lizards of Iran, Zootaxa 3855 (1), pp. 1-97 : 21

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scientific name	Mediodactylus heteropholis ( Minton, Anderson & Anderson, 1970 )
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Mediodactylus heteropholis ( Minton, Anderson & Anderson, 1970)

HOLOTYPE. FMNH 74549 About FMNH .

TYPE LOCALITY. Pirman Hotel, Salahedin, Salahedin Nahiya, Erbil Governorate, Iraq.

DISTRIBUTION. Iraq and Iran.

DISTRIBUTION IN IRAN. Fig. 50 View FIGURES 50–55. 50 . Only four known localities in Ilam, Kermanshah , and Lorestan Prov.

HABITAT. In Iran collected in semihumid Zagrosian oak forest, the types from Iraq were collected on the floor of a hotel porch .

REMARKS. Červenka et al. (2010) placed the genus Carinatogecko , which formerly contained C. aspratilis and C. heteropholis , in the synonymy of Mediodactylus . This taxonomic action, however, has not been accepted by many authors ( Fathinia et al. 2011a, c; Karamiani & Rastegar-Pouyani 2011; Sadeghi & Torki 2011; Torki 2011, 2012). Torki (2011) suggested that the specimen included by Červenka et al. (2010) and determined as Carinatogecko cf. heteropholis might by a misidentified specimen of M. heterocercum . If Torki’s assumption is correct, the validity of Carinatogecko might be maintained at least until more species of this genus are sequenced. Nevertheless, here we agree with Bauer et al. (2013) and follow the concept of Červenka et al. (2010).

REFERENCES. Anderson (1999); Červenka et al. (2010); Fathinia et al. (2011c); Torki (2011, 2012); Bauer et al. (2013).

References

Anderson, S. C. (1999) The lizards of Iran. Society for the Study of Amphibians and Reptiles, Oxford, Ohio, 442 pp.

Bauer, A. M., Masroor, R., Titus-Mcquillan, J., Heinicke, M. P., Daza, J. D. & Jackman, T. R. (2013) A preliminary phylogeny of the Palearctic naked-toed geckos (Reptilia: Squamata: Gekkonidae) with taxonomic implications. Zootaxa, 3599 (4), 301 - 324. http: // dx. doi. org / 10.11646 / zootaxa. 3599.4.1

Fathinia, B., Karamiani, R., Darvishnia, H., Heidari, N. & Rastegar-Pouyani, N. (2011 a) A new species of Carinatogecko (Sauria: Gekkonidae) from Ilam Province, western Iran. Amphibian and Reptile Conservation, 5, 61 - 74.

Fathinia, B., Rastegar-Pouyani, N. & Mohamadi, H. (2011 c) Sexual dimorphism in Carinatogecko heteropholis (Minton, Anderson, and Anderson, 1970) (Sauria: Gekkonidae) from Ilam Province, western Iran. Amphibian and Reptile Conservation, 5, 47 - 53.

Minton, S. A., Anderson, S. C. & Anderson, J. A. (1970) Remarks on some geckos from southwest Asia, with descriptions of three new forms and a key to the genus Tropiocolotes. Proceedings of the California Academy of Sciences, 37, 333 - 362.

Rastegar-Pouyani, N., Karamiani, R., Oraei, H., Khosrawani, A. & Rastegar-Pouyani, E. (2011 b) A New Subspecies of Darevskia raddei (Boettger, 1892) (Sauria: Lacertidae) from the West Azerbaijan Province, Iran. Asian Herpetological Research, 2, 216 - 222. http: // dx. doi. org / 10.3724 / sp. j. 1245.2011.00216

Sadeghi, R. & Torki, F. (2011) Notes on the natural history and distribution of Carinatogecko stevenandersoni Torki, 2011. Amphibian and Reptile Conservation, 5, 34 - 36.

Figures

FIGURES 50–55. 50. Mediodactylus heteropholis. 51. Mediodactylus ilamensis. 52. Mediodactylus russowii. Blue square denotes the type locality for M. r. zarudnyi. 53. Mediodactylus sagittifer. 54. Mediodactylus spinicauda. 55. Mediodactylus stevenandersoni.