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Mediodactylus danilewskii (STRAUCH, 1887)

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Higher TaxaGekkonidae, Gekkota, Sauria, Squamata (lizards: geckos)
Subspecies 
Common NamesE: Mediterranean Thin-toed gecko, Bulgarian Bent-toed Gecko
G: Europäischer Nacktfinger, Ägäischer Bogenfinger 
SynonymGymnodactylus danilewskii STRAUCH 1887: 48
Gymnodactylus danilewskii — DERJUGIN 1901: 91
Gymnodactylus kotschyi bureschi STEPÁNEK 1937: 276
Gymnodactylus kotschyi steindachneri STEPÁNEK 1937: 267
Gymnodactylus kotschyi bureschi — MERTENS & MÜLLER 1940
Gymnodactylus kotschyi danilewskii — MERTENS & MÜLLER 1940
Gymnodactylus kotschyi lycaonicus MERTENS 1952
Cyrtodactylus kotschyi lycaonicus — BARAN & GRUBER 1977: 182
Cyrtodactylus kotschyi lycaonicus — BEUTLER 1981: 64
Cyrtodactylus kotschyi bureschi — THIEME 1985
Tenuidactylys kotschyi danilewskii — SZCZERBAK & GOLUBEV 1986: 162
Mediodactylus kotschyi danilewskii — KLUGE 1991: 3
Cyrtopodion (Mediodactylus) kotschyi danilewskii — RÖSLER 2000: 71
Cyrtodactylus kotschyi danilewskii — STOEV 2000
Cyrtopodion kotschyi danilewskii — SCHLÜTER 2005
Mediodactylus kotschyi daniliewskii — MOLLOV 2016
Mediodactylus daniliewskii — KOTSAKIOZI et al. 2018
Mediodactylus danilewskii — SPEYBROECK et al. 2020 
DistributionBulgaria (Coast of Black Sea), Ukraine, Turkey (SW Anatolia), Greece (Gavdos Island, south of Crete).

Type locality: Yalta, Crimea  
Reproductionoviparous 
TypesHolotype: unlocated (was ZISP 3688); paratypes: ZISP 6353, ZISP 6542 (fide Strauch 1887)
Lectotype: (designated by Moravec 2003: 154): NMP P6V-005292, unsexed specimen, collected by Jan Mařan and Karel Táborský on an unknown date at “Aja Galina Umgebung von Sozopol” [= Agalina], Burgas Prov- ince, Bulgaria; ca. 42.42°N, 27.70°E. [bureschi]
Lectotype: NHMW 17356, 23 paralectotypes in NHMW (Tiedemann et al. 1994: 30); paralectotype: NMP P6V-005300, unsexed specimen, collected by V. Pietschmann in May–June 1931 in “Egerdir” [= Lake Eğirdir], Isparta Province, Turkey; exact locality unknown [steindachneri] 
DiagnosisAdditional details, e.g. a detailed description or comparisons (1460 characters), are available for collaborators and contributors. Please contact us for details. 
CommentSee also M. kotschyi.

Synonymy: mostly after BARAN & GRUBER 1982. 
EtymologyNamed after “Hr. Danilewsky”, the collector of the type. 
References
  • Baran, I., and U. Gruber. 1982. Taxonomische Untersuchungen an türkischen Gekkoniden. Spixiana 5 (2): 109-138 - get paper here
  • Bülbül, U., Zaman, E., Özkan, H., & Koç-Gür, H. 2023. New Records of the Bulgarian Bent-toed Gecko Mediodactylus danilewskii (Strauch, 1887)(Reptilia: Gekkonidae) from Turkey. Acta Zool. Bulg. - get paper here
  • Derjugin,K. 1901. Matériaux pour l'herpétologie du sud-ouest du Transcaucase et des environs de Trapézonde. [in Russian] Ann. Mus. Zool. St. Pétersbourg 6: 84-111. - get paper here
  • Gemel, R.; G. Gassner & S. Schweiger 2019. Katalog der Typen der Herpetologischen Sammlung des Naturhistorischen Museums Wien – 2018. Ann. Naturhist. Mus. Wien, B 121: 33–248 - get paper here
  • Kluge, A.G. 1991. Checklist of gekkonoid lizards. Smithsonian Herp. Inf. Serv. (85): 35 pp. - get paper here
  • Kotsakiozi, P., Jablonski, D., Ilgaz, Ç., Kumlutaş, Y., Avcı, A., Meiri, S., Poulakakis, N. 2018. Multilocus phylogeny and coalescent species delimitation in Kotschy’s gecko, Mediodactylus kotschyi: hidden diversity and cryptic species. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 125: 177-187 - get paper here
  • KOYNOVA, T., DOICHEV, D., & NATCHEV, N. 2020. New data on the distribution of the Bulgarian Bent-toed Gecko (Mediodactylus danilewskii Strauch, 1887) in Shumen town (NE Bulgaria). BIHAREAN BIOLOGIST, 14: 2 - get paper here
  • Koynova, T., Marinova, P., Nikolov, N., Kaschieva, M., Chernikov, C., Velkova, V., & Natchev, N. 2021. Citizen Science Assisted Monitoring Provides New Data Concerning the Distribution of the Bulgarian Bent-toed Gecko, Mediodactylus danilewskii (Gekkonidae, Squamata), in North-East Bulgaria. Zoodiversity, 55(5)
  • Kukushkin O. V. 2018. On Anomalies of the Caudal Regeneration and Autotomy in Mediodactylus danilewskii (Reptilia: Sauria: Gekkonidae). Current Studies in Herpetology 18 (3–4): 180 - get paper here
  • Kukushkin O. V., Silkin M. Y. 2020. Bioacoustic Characteristics of the Crimean Gecko Mediodactylus danilewskii (Strauch, 1887) (Reptilia: Sauria: Gekkonidae) Current Studies in Herpetology 20 (3–4): 128 - get paper here
  • Mertens, R. 1952. Türkiye amfibi ve reptilleri hakkinda. Amphibien und Reptilien aus der Türkei. Rev. Istanbul Üniversitesi fen Fakültesi Mecmuasi, 17:41-75. - get paper here
  • Mertens, R., and L. Müller. 1940. Liste der Amphibien und Reptilien Europas. Abhandlungen der Senckenbergischen Naturforschenden Gesellschaft. Frankfurt am Main. 451: 1-62 - get paper here
  • Mlíkovský, Jiří; Petr Benda, Jiří Moravec & Radek Šanda 2011. Type specimens of recent vertebrates in the collections of the National Museum, Prague, Czech Republic. Journal of the National Museum (Prague), Natural History Series 180 (10): 133-164
  • Mollov, Ivelin A. 2016. The Herpetological Collection of the Department of Ecology and Environmental Conservation, Faculty of Biology, University of Plovdiv (Bulgaria). Bull. Nat. Hist. Mus. Plovdiv 1: 1-10 - get paper here
  • Schlüter, U. 2005. Die Herpetofauna der bulgarischen Schwarzmeerküste - Teil 2: Echsen. Elaphe 13 (4): 52-58
  • Shcherbak, N. N. [= Szczerbak], and M. L. Golubev 1996. Gecko fauna of the USSR and contiguous regions. SSAR [Russian original published in 1986]. [book review in Salamandra 36 (2): 138]
  • Speybroeck, Jeroen; Wouter Beukema, Christophe Dufresnes, Uwe Fritz, Daniel Jablonski, Petros Lymberakis, Iñigo Martínez-Solano, Edoardo Razzetti, Melita Vamberger, Miguel Vences, Judit Vörös0, Pierre-André Crochet 2020. Species list of the European herpetofauna – 2020 update by the Taxonomic Committee of the Societas Europaea Herpetologica.. Amphibia-Reptilia 41: 139-189 - get paper here
  • Stèpànek, O. 1937. Gymnodactylus kotschyi Steindachner und sein Rassenkreis. Archiv für Naturgeschichte, Zeitschrift für Systematische Zoologie, Leipzig, 6:258—280.
  • Stoev, Pavel 2000. On the distribution, biology and ecology of amphibians and reptiles in the Derventski Heights and the Sakar Mountain, South-East Bulgaria Hist. Nat. Bulgarica 12: 59–69 - get paper here
  • Strauch, A. A. 1887. Bemerkungen über die Geckoniden-Sammlung im zoologischen Museum der kaiserlichen Akademie der Wissenschaften zu St. Petersburg. Mém. Acad. Impér. Sci. St.-Pétersbourg, ser. 7, 35 (2): 1-72 - get paper here
  • Thieme, U. 1985. Die Amphibien - und Reptilienfauna der südost - bulgarischen Küste, Teil 2: Reptilien 1. Sauria 7 (3): 3-6 - get paper here
  • Turbanov, Ilya S.; Oleg Vitaljevich Kukushkin, Robert S. Vargovitsh 2019. Amphibians and Reptiles in the Subterranean Cavities of the Crimean Mountains. Russ. J. Herpetol. 26 (1): 29-53 - get paper here
 
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