Tenuidactylus turcmenicus (Szczerbak, 1978)

HOLOTYPE. ZIK Re N o. 10.

TYPE LOCALITY. Agashly near Kushka, Badghyz, Turkmenistan.

DISTRIBUTION. Iran, Turkmenistan, Afghanistan.

DISTRIBUTION IN IRAN. Fig. 67. Known only from an unverified record from Gorgan, Golestan Prov. (NHMW specimen), a locality remarkably distant from the rest of the species range in N Afghanistan .

HABITAT. In Turkmenistan this gecko inhabits vertical limestone cliffs with predominantly southern exposure, it is absent from taluses and individual rocky boulders (Szczerbak & Golubev 1996).

REMARKS. The actual occurrence of T. turcmenicus in Iran needs to be proven.

REFERENCES. Szczerbak & Golubev (1996); Anderson (1999).