Asaccus zagrosicus TORKI, AHMADZADEH, ILGAZ, AVCI & KUMLUTAS, 2011
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Higher Taxa | Phyllodactylidae, Gekkota, Sauria, Squamata (lizards: geckos) |
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Synonym | Asaccus zagrosicus TORKI, AHMADZADEH, ILGAZ, AVCI & KUMLUTAS 2011 Asaccus zagrosicus — NASRABADI et al. 2017 |
Distribution | W Iran (central Zagros Mountains, Lorestan Province) Type locality: western slope of central Zagros Mountains, Tang-e-Haft region, Khorramabad City, Lorestan Province, western Iran (33° 02′ N, 48° 39′ E, 647 m elevation) |
Reproduction | oviparous (not imputed, fide Zimin et al. 2022) |
Types | Holotype: ZFMK 91935, originally FTHM (= FTHR) 002651, adult male, collected by Farhang Torki on 24 August, 2008. Paratypes: FTHM |
Diagnosis | Diagnosis: Medium size Asaccus (44-55 mm);tubercles are distributed in dorsal body, neck,occipital, limbs, and tail; dorsal tubercles aresmall, keeled, trihedral type b intermixed withpointed tubercles; 16-18 irregular rows at mid-trunk; neck tubercles are weakly keeled orpointed; occipital and upper head tubercles arepointed or simple; few simple tubercles be-tween interorbit; few large tubercles (simple orpointed) are in front of eyes; arm and fore-arm tubercles are pointed; thigh tubercles arepointed or keeled; arm tubercles have low den-sity; several simple or weakly keeled tubercleson the forearm; 8 tubercles form each whorlsof tail; scales on upper head are cobble-stoneshaped; scale weakly globular shape betweenthe eyes; two postmentals, secondary postmen-tals not in contact with lowerlabial (separatedfrom lower labials with 1-3 rows scales); smalland weakly overlapped chin scales; between inter hindlimbs scales have same shape and sizeto ventrals; mental trihedral; claves in front ofscansors [from TORKI et al. 2011]. Additional details (1130 characters) are available for collaborators and contributors. Please contact us for details. |
Comment | Distribution: 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 A. zagrosicus with A. elisae. Both Torki’s original 2011 and Kamali’s paper are unsatisfactory, e.g. with Torki et al. 2011 not saying which locality corresponds to which species in their Figure 1, and Kamali et al. 2024 not saying which locality in their Fig 1 or Fig. 5 corresponds to zagrosicus either. |
Etymology | named after its type locality. |
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