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Altiphylax baturensis (KHAN & BAIG, 1992)

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Higher TaxaGekkonidae, Gekkota, Sauria, Squamata (lizards: geckos)
Subspecies 
Common NamesE: Batura Glacier Gecko 
SynonymTenuidactylus baturensis KHAN & BAIG 1992
Tenuidactylus baturensis — KLUGE 1993
Cyrtopodion (Tenuidactylus) baturensis — RÖSLER 2000: 68
Cyrtodactylus baturensis — KHAN 1999
Mesodactylus baturensis — KHAN 1999
Altigekko baturensis — KHAN 2003
Cyrtopodion baturense — FROST 2007 (pers. comm.)
Altiphylax baturensis — SINDACO & JEREMČENKO 2008
Cyrtopodion baturense — AUFFENBERG et al. 2010
Altiphylax baturensis — BAUER et al. 2013 
DistributionN Pakistan (NE Gilgit Agency, Federally Administered Northern Areas (FANA)), Hunza River; elevation 2,438–3,078 m

Type locality: Pasu, Gilgit Agency N Pakistan (36° 20’ N, 74° 50’ E), elevation 8025 ft.  
Reproductionoviparous 
TypesHolotype: BMNH 1990.3 
DiagnosisDiagnosis (genus Altigekko, stoliczkai subroup) “Body and tail depressed, tail a little longer than body, segments marked by deep lateral lobulations along the anterior half of un regenerated tail. Tail fragile at its base; regenerated tail much swollen; caudal tubercles small, conical, protuberant, arising from the middle of segments, indistinct by midtail; subcaudals in several rows; postfemoral tubercles absent; dorsal granular scales convex, mostly juxtaposed, arranged in lateral transverse rows, interspersed with large (three times the size of granular scales), convex, smooth or feebly keeled oval tubercles arranged in more or less longitudinal rows, rare on head and limbs, no supracilliary spines on the posterior dorsal part of the upper eyelid; a distinct frontal and postnasal pit. Interorbital scales 16-20; scales across midabdomen 27-32, midventrals 117-150; preanal and femoral pores absent in both sexes.” (Gruber, 1981; Khan, 1992, Khan 2003) 
CommentType Species: Tenuidactylus baturensis KHAN & BAIG 1992 is the type species of the genus Altigekko KHAN 2003. For a comparison of characters among Siwaligekko, Altigekko, Indogekko, and Cyrtopodion, see Khan 2009.

C. baturense is similar to but immediately separable from C. stoliczkai by a number of characters, i.e. character 12 = number of large, lateral tubercles on each tail whorl, character 19 = number of scale rows per tail whorl, character 34 = medial subcaudals, character 35 = distal scale row of tail whorl. 
EtymologyThe new gecko is named after Batura Glacier which lies between Pasu (36° 20'N, 74° 50' E) and Khaiber (36° 35' N, 74° 47' E) the type localities, lying on the western bank of the Hunza River, Gilgit Agency.

The genus Altigekko was named after its high altitude distribution in the Greater Himalayas (Karakorams), in northeastern Pakistan and India. 
References
  • AUFFENBERG, KURT; KENNETH L. KRYSKO & HAFIZUR REHMAN 2010. Studies on Pakistan Lizards: Cyrtopodion baturense (Khan and Baig 1992) and Cyrtopodion walli (Ingoldby 1922) (Sauria: Gekkonidae). Zootaxa 2636: 1–20 - get paper here
  • Baig, K. J. 1998. A new species of Tenuidactylus (Sauria: Gekkonidae) from Balochistan, Pakistan. Hamadryad 23 (2): 127-132. - get paper here
  • BAUER, AARON M.; RAFAQAT MASROOR, JAMES TITUS-MCQUILLAN, MATTHEW P. HEINICKE,, JUAN D. DAZA & TODD R. JACKMAN 2013. A preliminary phylogeny of the Palearctic naked-toed geckos (Reptilia: Squamata: Gekkonidae) with taxonomic implications. Zootaxa 3599 (4): 301–324 - get paper here
  • Khan M S; Baig K J 1992. A new Tenuidactylus gecko from northeastern Gilit Agency, north Pakistan. Pakistan Journal of Zoology 24(4) 1992: 273-277 - get paper here
  • Khan, M.S. 2003. Questions of generic designation of angular-toed geckos of Pakistan with descriptions of three new genera (Reptilia: Gekkonidae). J. nat. hist. Wildl. 2 (2): 1-9
  • Khan, M.S. 2003. Anmerkungen zur Morphologie, Verbreitung und den Habitatpräferenzen einiger pakistanischer Geckos. Sauria 25 (3): 35-47 [erratum in 25 (4): 27] - get paper here
  • Khan, M.S. 2003. CHECKLIST AND KEY TO THE LIZARDS OF PAKISTAN. Pakistan J. Zool. Suppl. Ser. (1): 1-25 - get paper here
  • Khan, M.S. 2006. Angular-Toed Geckos of the Western Himalayas - Genus Altigekko. Reptilia (GB) (46): 60-63 - get paper here
  • Khan, M.S. 2009. Intergeneric Relations of the Angular - Toed Geckos of Circum Western Himalayas (Sauria: Gekkonidae). Pakistan J. Zool., vol. 41(1), Fjp. 29-34 - get paper here
  • Khan, Muhammad Sharif 2005. An Overview of the Angular-toed Geckos of Pakistan (Squamata: Gekkonidae). Gekko 4 (2): 20-30
  • Krysko, K. L.; Rehman, H. & Auffenberg, K. 2007. A new species of Cyrtopodion (Gekkonidae: Gekkoninae) from Pakistan. Herpetologica 63 (1): 100-113 - get paper here
  • Rösler, H. 2000. Kommentierte Liste der rezent, subrezent und fossil bekannten Geckotaxa (Reptilia: Gekkonomorpha). Gekkota 2: 28-153
  • Sindaco, R. & Jeremcenko, V.K. 2008. The reptiles of the Western Palearctic. Edizioni Belvedere, Latina (Italy), 579 pp. - get paper here
 
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