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Asaccus griseonotus DIXON & ANDERSON, 1973

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Higher TaxaPhyllodactylidae, Gekkota, Sauria, Squamata (lizards: geckos)
Subspecies 
Common NamesE: Gray-marked Gecko
E: Nasrullah’s leaf-toed gecko [nasrullahi] 
SynonymAsaccus griseonotus DIXON & ANDERSON 1973
Phyllodactylus ingae EISELT 1973
Asaccus griseonotus — KLUGE 1993
Asaccus griseonotus — RÖSLER 2000: 60
Asaccus nasrullahi WERNER 2006
Asaccus nasrullahi — PAPENFUSS et al. 2010
Asaccus griseonotus — PAPENFUSS et al. 2010
Asaccus griseonotus — NASRABADI et al. 2017
Asaccus nasrullahi — NASRABADI et al. 2017 
DistributionNE Iraq (Palegawra Cave),
W Iran (Kermanshah, Lorestan)

Type locality: 38.5 mi from Shahabad, Kennanshah, Kermanshahan [Kerman Prov., ex errore], Iran).

nasrullahi: SW Iran (Lorestan); Type locality: Shah
Bazan, 12 km NNE of (km 347 on the railway), near the small affluent Ab-I-Khornos, 600 m elevation.  
Reproductionoviparous 
TypesHolotype: FMNH 170824 Paratypes: FMNH
Holotype: ZMUC R 3447, female. Apparently collected by E.
Kaiser of the Danish Scientific Investigations in Iran (Schmidt, 1955). [Asaccus nasrullahi] 
DiagnosisDiagnosis: Anderson 1999: 136.


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CommentDate of publication: Eiselt published his description about 1 month after DIXON & ANDERSON.

Distribution: See map in SMID et al. 2014 for distribution in Iran.

Synonymy: Kamali et al. 2024 synonymized Asaccus nasrullahi with A. griseonotus based on molecular data.

Similar species: Asaccus nasrullahi has been previously misidentified as Ptyodactylus hasselquisti (WERNER, cited in RASTEGAR-PUYANI 2006).

NCBI taxonID: 886396 [nasrullahi] 
EtymologyFrom grise-, modern Latin griseus = gray + Greek notos, not- = back.

A. nasrullahi was named after “Nasrullah Rastegar-Pouyani, in recognition of his contribution to the knowledge of the herpetology of Iran, including the genus Asaccus. Moreover, "nasrullah" means "victory of God" which concept seems appropriate for the survival, discovery and rediscovery of this gecko species” [from WERNER 2006]. 
References
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  • Anderson, Steven C 1999. The lizards of Iran. Contributions to Herpetology Volume 15, Society for the Study of Amphibians and Reptiles, Saint Louis, Missouri: i-vii, 1-442 [review in Copeia 2000 (4): 1144] - get paper here
  • Arnold E N; Gardner A S 1994. A review of the middle eastern leaf-toed geckoes (Gekkonidae: Asaccus) with descriptions of two new species from Oman. Fauna of Saudi Arabia 14: 424-441 - get paper here
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