Lakigecko, Keywords., 2020

Keywords., Farhang Torki, 2020, A new gecko genus from Zagros Mountains, Iran, Amphibian & Reptile Conservation (e 223) 14 (1), pp. 55-62 : 61

Key to the genera of Gekkonidae in Iran (after Anderson 1999; Safaei-Mahroo et al. 2016)

1a: Digits strongly dilated…..……………………………………………………………………………. Hemidactylus Oken, 1817 1b: Digits not dilated…………………………………………………………………………………………………………………2

2a: Digits with well-defined lateral fringe of elongate scales…………………………….………………………………………3

2b: Digits without fringe of elongate scales……………………………………………...…………………………………………5

3a: Small dorsal scales intermixed with rounded tubercles………………………………………. Crossobamon Boettger, 1888

3b: Dorsal scales uniform, not intermixed with tubercles………………………………………………………………………..4

4a: Enlarged postmental scales present………………………………………………………. Pseudoceramodactylus Haas, 1957

4b: No enlarged postmentals……………………………………………………………..…………. Stenodactylus Fitzinger, 1826

5a: Dorsal scales heterogeneous…………………………………………………..……….………………………………………6

5b: Dorsal scales small (granule like), homogeneous………………………………………………………………….……….13

6a: Nostril at apex of prominent swollen or cylindrical caruncle formed by nasal scales, rostral excluded from border of nostril…………………………………………………………………………………………………. Rhinogecko de Witte, 1973

6b: Nasal scales do not form cylindrical caruncle, although they may appear to be swollen around the nostril; rostral normally forms part of border of nostril………….…………….…………………………………………………………………………7

7a: Tail cylindrical, very slender, and of almost uniform diameter from base to tip (tip blunt), no mucronate tubercles or annuli……………………………………………………………………………………………………. Agamura Blanford, 1874

7b: Tail different from above………………………………………………………………………………………………………..8

8b: Tail depressed, tail tubercles strongly keeled, spinose, in contact together in at least 14 rows in each whorl, whorl tubercles extended in laterals and ventral of tail; head angle (laterally) less than 30°……………………………….. Lakigecko gen.n.

8b: Tail different from above; head angle (laterally) more than 35°…………………………………………………………..9

9a: Subdigital lamellae keeled………………………………………...………………………………………………………….10

9b: Subdigital lamellae smooth……………………………………………………………………………….…………………..11

10a: All scales on body except chin shields, supralabials, and infralabials keeled; dorsal tubercles in each caudal segment not in contact, subcaudal scales not denticulate …………………………….…………. Carinatogecko Golubev and Szczerbak, 1981

10b: All body scales are not keeled; dorsal tubercles in each segment are in contact; subcaudal scales denticulate…………..…………………………………………………………………………………………. Bunopus Blanford, 1874

11a: Digit shape sub-angular, spine-shaped caudal tubercles do not contact each other in the whorls of a segment…………………………………………………………………………. Mediodactylus Szczerbak and Golubev, 1977

11b: Digit shape strongly angular, low, or moderately high tail tubercles broadly contact each other across the dorsum of tail whorls and are surrounded by one to two smaller scales…………………………………………………..….12

12a: Femoral pores present……………………………………………………….….. Tenuidactylus Szczerbak and Golubev, 1984

12b: Femoral pores absent…………………………..……………………………………………..…… Cyrtopodion Fitzinger, 1843

13a: Subcaudals arranged in single large, broad row, two strongly keeled tubercles on either side of each annulus…….……………………………………………………..… Parsigecko Safaei-Mahroo, Ghaffari, and Anderson, 2016

13b: Tail scales uniform, homogenous, not keeled…………..………………...…………..………………………………………14

14a: Subdigital lamellae keeled………………………….……………………………………………… Tropiocolotes Peters, 1880

14b: Subdigital lamellae smooth………………………………………………………………………… Microgecko Nikolsky, 1907