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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https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.3855.1.1

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DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4929240

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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 View Materials .

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).

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Chordata

Class

Reptilia

Order

Squamata

Family

Gekkonidae

Genus

Mediodactylus

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