Mediodactylus amictopholis (HOOFIEN, 1967)

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Higher Taxa	Gekkonidae, Gekkota, Sauria, Squamata (lizards: geckos)
Subspecies
Common Names	E: Lebanese thin-toed gecko
Synonym	Cyrtodactylus amictopholis HOOFIEN 1967 Gymnodactylus (Mediodactylus) amictopholis — SZCZERBAK & GOLUBEV 1981 Tenuidactylus amictopholis — SZCZERBAK & GOLUBEV 1984 Cyrtopodion (Mediodactylus) amictopholis — BÖHME 1985: 96 Gymnodactylus amictopholis — WELCH Mediodactylus amictopholis — KLUGE 1993 Cyrtopodion (Mediodactylus) amictopholis — RÖSLER 1995: 112 Cyrtopodion amictophole — FROST 2007 (pers. comm.) Cyrtopodion amictopholis — HRAOUI-BLOQUET et al. 2002 Cyrtopodion (Mediodactylus) amictophole — SINDACO & JEREMČENKO 2008 Mediodactylus amictopholis — BAUER et al. 2013 Mediodactylus amictopholis — MEIRI et al. 2019
Distribution	Israel, Lebanon Type locality: “Mt. Hermon above Megdel Shams”, elevation about 2000 m.
Reproduction	oviparous
Types	Holotype: TAU 7072 (Tel Aviv University)
Diagnosis
Comment	Distribution: see Bar et al. 2021 for a map.
Etymology	after Greek “amictopholis”, meaning “a possessor or unmixed scales”.
References	Bar, A., Haimovitch, G. and Meiri, S. 2021. Field guide to the amphibians and reptiles of Israel. Edition Chimaira, Frankfurt Am Main. ISBN 9783-89973-120-0 - get paper here Bar, Aviad and Guy Haimovitch 2012. A Field Guide to Reptiles and Amphibians of Israel. Pazbar LTD, 246 pp. - get paper here BAUER, AARON M.; RAFAQAT MASROOR, JAMES TITUS-MCQUILLAN, MATTHEW P. HEINICKE,, JUAN D. DAZA & TODD R. JACKMAN 2013. A preliminary phylogeny of the Palearctic naked-toed geckos (Reptilia: Squamata: Gekkonidae) with taxonomic implications. Zootaxa 3599 (4): 301–324 - get paper here Boettger, O. [as O. Böttger] 1880. Die Reptilien und Amphibien von Syrien, Palaestina und Cypern. Ber. Senckenb. Naturforsch. Ges., Frankfurt/M., 1879-1880: 132-219 - get paper here Böhme, W. 1985. Zur Nomenklatur der paläarktischen Bogenfingergeckos, Gattung Tenuidactylus Szczerbak & Golubev 1984 (Reptilia: Gekkonidae). Bonner Zoologische Beiträge 36: 95-98 - get paper here Hoofien, J. H. 1967. Contributions to the herpetofauna of Mount Hermon No. I Cyrtodactylus amictopholis n. sp. (Sauna, Gekkonidae). Israel Journal of Zoology, 16:205—210. Hraoui-Bloquet, S.; Sadek, R.A.; Sindaco, R. & Venchi, A. 2002. The herpetofauna of Lebanon: new data on distribution. Zoology in the Middle East 27: 35-46 - get paper here Meiri, Shai; Amos Belmaker, Daniel Berkowic, Kesem Kazes, Erez Maza, Guy Bar-Oz and Roi Dor 2019. A checklist of Israeli land vertebrates. Israel Journal of Ecology and Evolution - get paper here Rösler, Herbert 1995. Geckos der Welt - Alle Gattungen. Urania, Leipzig, 256 pp. 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] Shcherbak, N. N. [= Szczerbak], and M. L. Golubev. 1981. Vestnik Zoologii, Kiev, 1981: 5 Shcherbak, N. N. [= Szczerbak], and M. L. Golubev. 1984. O rorowoj prinadleshnosti i wnutrirodowoj strukture palearktitscheskich goloralyx gekkonow (Reptilia, Gekkonidae, Tenuidactylus gen. nov.). Vestnik Zoologii, Kiev 1984 (2): 50-56 Shcherbak, N. N., and M. L. Golubev. 1977. Systematics of the Palearctic geckos (genera Gymnodactylus, Bunopus, Alsophylax) [in Russian]. Proceedings of the Zoological Institute, Academy of Sciences of the USSR, Herpetological Collected Papers, 74:120-133. Sindaco, R. & Jeremcenko, V.K. 2008. The reptiles of the Western Palearctic. Edizioni Belvedere, Latina (Italy), 579 pp. - get paper here
External links	IUCN Red List http://www.snakes.co.il/isralizard/isralizard.html http://herpetology.com/1phs31.html Google images

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