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Agamura cruralis BLANFORD, 1874

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Higher TaxaGekkonidae, Gekkota, Sauria, Squamata (lizards: geckos)
Subspecies 
Common NamesE: Spider Gecko
G: Spinnengecko 
SynonymAgamura cruralis BLANFORD 1874: 455
Agamura cruralis — BOULENGER 1885: 50
Agamura cruralis — ALCOCK & FINN 1897
Agamura cruralis — WERNER 1938: 267
Agamura cruralis — SCHLEICH 1977: 127
Agamura persica cruralis — SZCZERBAK & GOLUBEV 1986: 211
Agamura persica cruralis — SZCZERBAK & GOLUBEV 1996: 206
Agamura cruralis — HOSSEINIAN-YOUSEFKHANI et al. 2017
Agamura cruralis — HOSSEINIAN-YOUSEFKHANI et al. 2018
Agamura cruralis — HOSSEINIAN-YOUSEFKHANI et al. 2019 
DistributionE Iran, Pakistan

Type locality: Bahu Kalat; Zamran; Nlhmg River; Askan, near Bampusht, Iran; and Ras Malan; Mand; Pakistan; restricted to Bahu Kalat and Askan, Baluchistan by Smith 1935: 61.  
Reproductionoviparous 
TypesSyntypes: BMNH 74.11.23.52-54 (= BMNH 1946.8.25.33-35), MCZ 7136; ZMB 10234; ZSI 3487, 3501, 6811-6812; Bauer & Günther 1991 “regard the BMNH type for which Boulenger 1885 provided measurements as the lectotype.” (withouth saying which specimen this was); see also Das et al. 1998). 
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CommentType species: Agamura cruralis BLANFORD 1874 is the type species of the genus Agamura BLANFORD 1874 (fide Wermuth 1965, Szczerbak & Golubev 1986).

Synonymy: Smith (1935) synonymized A. persica and A. cruralis. This was maintained by Anderson 1999. However, HOSSEINIAN-YOUSEFKHANI et al. 2017 resurrected A. cruralis based on morphology.

Distribution: HOSSEINIAN-YOUSEFKHANI et al. 2018 have a map with both persica and cruralis with the latter being restricted to eastern Iran and W Pakistan.

Reference images: see Uetz et al. 2024 for high-resolution reference images for this species. 
EtymologyNamed after Latin cruralis = of the shin, or belonging to the legs. 
References
  • Alcock, A. W. & FINN,F. 1897. An account of the Reptilia collected by Dr. F.P. Maynard, Captain A.H. McMahon, C.I.E., and the members of the Afghan-Baluch Boundary Comission of 1896. J. Asiat. Soc. Bengal 65: 550-566 [1896] - get paper here
  • Blanford, W.T. 1876. Eastern Persia, an account of the journeys of the Persian Boundary Comission, 1870-71-72. Vol. II. The zoology and geology. London, 516 pp.
  • Blanford,W.T. 1874. Descriptions of new lizards from Persia and Baluchistàn. Ann. Mag. nat. Hist. (4) 13: 453-455 - get paper here
  • Boulenger, G.A. 1885. Catalogue of the lizards in the British Museum (Natural History). Vol. 2, Second edition. London, xiii+497 pp. - get paper here
  • Ebrahimipour, Farnaz; Eskandar Rastegar-Pouyani, Batoul Ghorbani 2016. A Preliminary Study of the Reptile’s Fauna in Northwestern Yazd Province, Iran. Russ. J. Herpetol. 23 (4): 243-248 - get paper here
  • Forcart, Lothar 1950. Amphibien und Reptilien von Iran. Verh. naturf. Ges. Basel 61: 141-156
  • Hosseinian Yousefkhani, SEYYED SAEED; MANSOUR ALIABADIAN, ESKANDAR RASTEGAR-POUYANI, JAMSHID DARVISH, SOHEILA SHAFIEI, MOHAMMAD EBRAHIM SEHHATISABET 2018. Description of a new species of the genus Agamura Blanford, 1874 (Squamata: Gekkonidae) from southern Iran. Zootaxa 4457 (2): 325–331 - get paper here
  • Hosseinian Yousefkhani, Seyyed Saeed; Mansour Aliabadian; Eskandar Rastegar-Pouyani and Jamshid Darvish 2017. Geographic variation in morphology of the genus Agamura Blanford, 1874 in Iran. Amphibia-Reptilia 38: 449-459 - get paper here
  • Hosseinian-Yousefkhani, Seyyed Saeed; Mansour Aliabadian, Eskandar Rastegar-Pouyani & Jamshid Darvish 2019. Taxonomic revision of the spider geckos of the genus Agamura senso lato Blanford, 1874 (Sauria: Gekkonidae) in the Iranian Plateau. The Herpetological Journal 29: 1-12 - get paper here
  • Kamali, Kamran 2020. A Field Guide to the Reptiles and Amphibians of Iran. Edition Chimaira, Frankfurt am Main, Germany (www.chimaira.de). 574 pp.
  • Schleich, H. H. 1977. Distributional maps of reptiles of Iran. Herpetological Review 8: 126-129. - get paper here
  • Shcherbak, N. N. [= Szczerbak], and M. L. Golubev 1996. Gecko fauna of the USSR and contiguous regions. SSAR [Russian original published in 1986]. [book review in Salamandra 36 (2): 138]
  • Smith, M.A. 1935. The fauna of British India, including Ceylon and Burma. Reptiles and Amphibia, Vol. II. Sauria. Taylor and Francis, London, 440 pp.
  • Uetz, P.H.; Patel, M.; Gbadamosi, Z.; Nguyen, A.; Shoope, S. 2024. A Reference Database of Reptile Images. Taxonomy 4: 723–732 - get paper here
  • Werner, F. 1938. Reptilien aus Iran und Belutschistan. Zool. Anz. 121: 265—271
 
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