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

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Higher Taxa	Phyllodactylidae, Gekkota, Sauria, Squamata (lizards: geckos)
Subspecies
Common Names
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].
Comment	Distribution: See map in SMID et al. 2014 for distribution in Iran. Abundance: only known from its original description (Meiri et al. 2017).
Etymology	named after its 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
External links	National Center for Biotechnology Information http://ftehcr.page.tl/New-Species.htm https://bioweb.bio/faunaweb/reptiliaweb/FichaEspecie/Atractus%20esepe Google images

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