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Cyrtopodion scabrum (HEYDEN, 1827)

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Higher TaxaGekkonidae, Gekkota, Sauria, Squamata (lizards: geckos)
Subspecies 
Common NamesE: Rough bent-toed gecko, Rough-tailed Bowfoot Gecko, Common Tuberculate Ground gecko 
SynonymStenodactylus scaber HEYDEN 1827: 15
Gymnodactylus scaber — DUMÉRIL & BIBRON 1836: 421
Stenodactylus scaber — BLYTH 1853
Gymnodactylus geckoides — SCHREIBER 1875: 482 (non SPIX fide BOULENGER 1885: 27)
Gymnodactylus scaber — MURRAY 1884: 110
Gymnodactylus scaber RÜPP. — BOULENGER 1885: 27
Stenodactylus scaber — ANNANDALE 1913: 310
Cyrtodactylus scaber — UNDERWOOD 1954
Gymnodactylus scaber— LEVITON 1959
Gymnodactylus (Cyrtodactylus) scaber — WERMUTH 1965: 66
Cyrtodactylus basoglui BARAN & GRUBER 1982
Cyrtopodion (Cyrtopodion) scaber — BÖHME 1985: 96
Tenuidactylus scaber — SZCZERBAK & GOLUBEV 1986
Cyrtopodion scaber — KLUGE 1985
Cyrtopodion scabrum — CONANT & COLLINS 1991: 85
Tenuidactylus scaber — SINDACO 1995
Cyrtopodion scaber — RÖSLER 2000: 75
Cyrtopodion scabrum — CROTHER 2000
Cyrtopodion scabrum — KHAN 2003
Cyrtopodion scaber — NAZAROV & RAJABIZADEH 2007
Cyrtopodion (Cyrtopodion) scabrum — SINDACO & JEREMČENKO 2008
Cyrtopodion scabrum — MEIRI et al. 2019 
DistributionTurkey, Egypt [Siwa Oasis: HR 31: 254], Sinai/Tor, Israel, Iraq, Iran, Saudi Arabia, Oman, Yemen, United Arab Emirates (UAE), Kuwait, Qatar
Ethiopia, Eritrea, Sudan (Jumhūriyyat), India (incl. Gujarat, Jammu and Kashmir), Pakistan, Jordan, Afghanistan, Algeria

basoglui: Turkey

Type locality: restricted to “Umgebung von Tor (Sinai)” by MERTENS 1922.

Introduced to USA (Nevada, Texas) (Stocking & Jones 2017).  
Reproductionoviparous 
TypesLectotype SMF 8180, male (designated by Mertens, 1967:60) 
DiagnosisDiagnosis (genus): Digits clawed, slender, distal two or three phalanges make an angle with the proximal portion of the digits; a single series of smooth transverse subdigital lamellae; end of digit weakly or not at all laterally compressed; generally three or more rows of lateral scales on digits; no fringes or denticulations on lateral digital scales; longitudinal concavity in frontal region of head, as a rule, absent or weakly developed; usually not more than 30 scales between centers of eyes; pupil vertical with lobed anterior and posterior margins; usually two or three pairs of postmental shields, the first pair usually in contact behind the mental; males with preanal and/or femoral pores; segmentation of tail pronounced [from LEVITON et al. 1992].


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CommentSynonymy: Not listed by Engelmann et al. (1993).

Type species: Stenodactylus scaber HEYDEN 1827 is the type species of the genus Cyrtopodion FITZINGER 1843.

Distribution: See map in SMID et al. 2014 for distribution in Iran and map in Burriel-Carranza et al. 2019 for map in UAE. See Bar et al. 2021 for a map.

Comparisons: for a comparison of characters across members of the genus see Patel et al. 2023.

Group: The scabrum group contains Cyrtopodion scabrum, C. watsoni, C. kachhense, C. chitralensis, and maybe C. brevipes (fide Anderson 1999: 150). Anderson also distinguishes the agamuroides group (agamuroides, gastrophole), the caspium group (caspium, fedtschenkoi, montiumsalsorum, longipes,
turcmenicum), and the kotschyi group (kotschyi, C. russowii, C. heterocercum, sagittifer, spinicauda). 
EtymologyNamed after Latin scaběre = scratching, or the adjective scaber, scabra = rough, referring to the rough surface or skin, including keeled scales.

The genus was named after Greek κυρτος kyrtos "curved", from κυπτω kuptō "to stoop", and Greek pous, podos = "foot”. The name Cyrtopodion is neuter, hence the specific epithet has to be scabrum (fide CROTHER 2000, Bauer 2019). 
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