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Asaccus iranicus TORKI, AHMADZADEH, ILGAZ, AVCI & KUMLUTAS, 2011

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Higher TaxaPhyllodactylidae, Gekkota, Sauria, Squamata (lizards: geckos)
Subspecies 
Common Names 
SynonymAsaccus iranicus TORKI, AHMADZADEH, ILGAZ, AVCI & KUMLUTAS 2011
Asaccus tangestanensis TORKI, AHMADZADEH, ILGAZ, AVCI & KUMLUTAS 2011
Asaccus tangestanensis — NASRABADI et al. 2017
Asaccus iranicus — NASRABADI et al. 2017
Asaccus iranicus — KAMALI et al. 2024 
DistributionS Iran (Bushehr Province)

Type locality: coastal Persian Gulf, Assaloye City, Bushehr Province, Southern Iran (27° 18′ N, 52° 42′ E, elevation 50-221 m).

tangestanensis: S Iran (southern Zagros Mountains, Bushehr Province). Type locality: southern Zagros Mountains, Khaiiz, Tangestan City, Bushehr Province, Southern Iran (28° 43′ N, 51° 31′ E, elevation 525 m.  
Reproductionoviparous (manual imputation, fide Zimin et al. 2022) 
TypesHolotype: ZFMK 91933, originally FTHM (also as FTHR) 002690, female, collected by F. Torki and Faraham Ahmadzadeh, on 1 May 2008. Paratype: FTHM (also as FTHR) 002691. Adult male, other data as for holotype.
Holotype: ZFMK 91934 (formerly FTHM = FTHR) 002670, adult male, collected on 4 May 2008 by F. Torki and Faraham Ahmadzadeh. Paratypes: FTHM [tangestanensis] 
DiagnosisDiagnosis: Small Asaccus; forelimb fingersparallel joint to palm; dorsal body covered allover by tubercles; small dorsal tubercles keeled and trihedral type a and b; dorsolateral tubercles keeled, pointed or simple, much smaller than the middle; tubercles on the middle of theneck keeled, laterals pointed; occipital tuber-cles pointed or simple; upper head tubercles very small and simple; simple tubercles extend between interorbit and upper eyelash; several coarse tubercles (sharp or simple) in front of the eyes; simple tubercles cover the arm and fore-arm, tubercles not extend into palm and digits; thigh covered with keeled tubercles, laterals covered with simple or pointed tubercles, smaller than the middle; foreleg tubercles extend into palm and upper part of the 1st and 2nd digits (Additional characters are shown in Table 1 in TORKI et al. 2011).


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

Abundance: only known from its original description (Meiri et al. 2017).

Synonymy: Kamali et al. 2024 synonymized Asaccus tangestanensis with A. iranicus.

NCBI taxonID: 27836213 [tangestanensis] 
EtymologyNamed after the type locality. 
References
  • Kamali, Kamran 2020. A Field Guide to the Reptiles and Amphibians of Iran. Edition Chimaira, Frankfurt am Main, Germany (www.chimaira.de). 574 pp.
  • Meiri, Shai; Aaron M. Bauer, Allen Allison, Fernando Castro-Herrera, Laurent Chirio, Guarino Colli, Indraneil Das, Tiffany M. Doan, Frank Glaw, Lee L. Grismer, Marinus Hoogmoed, Fred Kraus, Matthew LeBreton, Danny Meirte, Zoltán T. Nagy, Cristiano d 2017. Extinct, obscure or imaginary: the lizard species with the smallest ranges. Diversity and Distributions - get paper here
  • NASRABADI, REZA; NASRULLAH RASTEGAR-POUYANI, ESKANDAR RASTEGAR-POUYANI, AHMAD GHARZI 2017. A revised key to the lizards of Iran (Reptilia: Squamata: Lacertilia). Zootaxa 4227 (3): 431–443 - get paper here
  • ŠMÍD, JIŘÍ; JIŘÍ MORAVEC, PETR KODYM, LUKÁŠ KRATOCHVÍL, SEYYED SAEED HOSSEINIAN YOUSEFKHANI, ESKANDAR RASTEGAR-POUYANI & DANIEL FRYNTA 2014. Annotated checklist and distribution of the lizards of Iran. Zootaxa 3855 (1): 001–097 - get paper here
  • Torki, F.; Ahmadzadeh, F.; Ilgaz, C.; Avci, A. & Kumlutas, Y. 2011. Description of four new Asaccus Dixon and Anderson, 1973 (Reptilia: Phyllodactylidae) from Iran and Turkey. Amphibia-Reptilia 32 (2): 185-202 - get paper here
  • Zimin, A., Zimin, S. V., Shine, R., Avila, L., Bauer, A., Böhm, M., Brown, R., Barki, G., de Oliveira Caetano, G. H., Castro Herrera, F., Chapple, D. G., Chirio, L., Colli, G. R., Doan, T. M., Glaw, F., Grismer, L. L., Itescu, Y., Kraus, F., LeBreton 2022. A global analysis of viviparity in squamates highlights its prevalence in cold climates. Global Ecology and Biogeography, 00, 1–16 - get paper here
 
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