Tenuidactylus turcmenicus ( Szczerbak, 1978 )

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 : 26-27

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scientific name	Tenuidactylus turcmenicus ( Szczerbak, 1978 )
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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 View FIGURES 62–67. 62 . 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).