Rhinogekko femoralis ( Smith, 1933 )

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 : 24-25

Rhinogekko femoralis ( Smith, 1933)

HOLOTYPE. BMNH 1946.8 .20.48 (ex. BMNH 12.3.26.12).

TYPE LOCALITY. Kharan, Baluchistan, Pakistan.

DISTRIBUTION. Iran and Pakistan.

DISTRIBUTION IN IRAN. Fig. 60 . Extreme eastern Sistan and Baluchistan Prov.

HABITAT. The only available information is from Pakistan by Minton (1966) who collected his specimens near rocky outcrops in sandy habitats.

REMARKS. The two Iranian localities of R. femoralis mentioned by Szczerbak & Golubev (1986; Koh-i Taftan and Mirjawe [Meer Jawe]), are doubted to be situated in Iran by Anderson (1999). The species is also not listed in the last country checklist ( Rastegar-Pouyani et al. 2008). The Koh-i Taftan specimens were apparently collected at Taftan, a railway station in Pakistan about 2 km east of the border. Also de Witte (1980), who studied the material, states that all specimens were from W Pakistan. However, Mirjawe is a city in Iran about 2 km west of the Pakistani border and because precise location of the specimens cannot be specified, and the Iranian Mirjawe cannot be ruled out, we tentatively include this locality here as the only place in Iran this species is known from.

REFERENCES. Minton (1966); de Witte (1980); Szczerbak & Golubev (1996); Anderson (1999).

Figures

FIGURES 56–61. 56. Microgecko helenae. Blue square denotes the type locality for M. h. fasciatus. 57. Microgecko latifi. 58. Microgecko persicus. Blue square denotes the type locality for M. p. bakhtiari. 59. Pseudoceramodactylus khobarensis. 60. Rhinogekko femoralis. 61. Rhinogekko misonnei.