Cyrtopodion scabrum ( Heyden, 1827 )

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 : 18-19

Cyrtopodion scabrum ( Heyden, 1827)

LECTOTYPE. SMF 8180 , designated by Mertens (1967).

TYPE LOCALITY. Tor, Sinai, Egypt and Abyssinian [= Eritrean] coast; restricted to Tor by Mertens (1967).

DISTRIBUTION. West from Egypt along the Red Sea and the Gulf of Aden, Arabian Peninsula, Iraq, Syria, S Turkey, Iran, Afghanistan, Pakistan, NW India.

DISTRIBUTION IN IRAN. Fig. 42 . Most of Iran including the Mesopotamian Plain in the west through the Zagros and the central Plateau continuously to Afghanistan and Pakistan in the east. A recent record from the logistically important city of Rasht, Gilan Prov. could be explained as a range expansion facilitated by human mediated dispersal ( Rastegar-Pouyani et al. 2010a).

HABITAT. A typical synanthropic gecko with strong affinity to human habitations. In Iran found on walls of inhabited and abandoned buildings, brick fences, garden walls or in dumping grounds; also dry scrubland and stony hillsides where it seeks refuge in crevices and fissures ( Anderson 1999; Khan 2006).

REMARKS. Based on available phylogenetic studies there are apparently some yet undescribed species closely related to C. scabrum ( Červenka et al. 2008; Bauer et al. 2013).

REFERENCES. Anderson (1999); Červenka et al. (2008, 2010); Fathinia et al. (2009); Rastegar-Pouyani et al. (2010a); Bauer et al. (2013).

Figures

FIGURES 38–43. 38. Cyrtopodion kachhense. 39. Cyrtopodion kiabii. 40. Cyrtopodion kirmanense. 41. Cyrtopodion persepolense. 42. Cyrtopodion scabrum. 43. Cyrtopodion sistanense.