| Higher Taxa | Gekkonidae, Gekkota, Sauria, Squamata (lizards: geckos) |
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| Common Names | E: Iranian Gecko, Iranian Keel-Scaled Gecko |
| Synonym | Bunopus aspratilis ANDERSON 1973
Carinatogecko aspratilis — GOLUBEV & SZCZERBAK 1981
Carinatogecko aspratilis — RÖSLER 2000: 61
Mediodactylus aspratilis — ČERVENKA et al. 2010
Carinatogecko aspratilis — FATHINIA et al. 2011
Mediodactylus aspratilis — BAUER et al. 2013 |
| Distribution | SW Iran (Fars-Province: Zagros Mountains, Kohgiluyeh and Boyer Ahmad)
Type locality: Kohgiliye-va-Boyerahmad Province; “35 km E Gach Saran [30º20'N, 50º48'E], Fars Province, Iran” fide ANDERSON 1999. This locality is in Kohgiluyeh and Boyer Ahmad Province, fide Gholamifard 2011.
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| Reproduction | oviparous |
| Types | Holotype: USNM 193961 |
| Diagnosis | Diagnosis (genus Carinatogecko): All scales of the body, with exception of intermaxillaries, nasals, chin shields, and upper and lower labials, strongly keeled; three nasal scales contact nostril; digits weakly angularly bent, clawed, not dilated, not webbed, nor ornamented, with keeled transverse subdigital lamellae; dorsal pholidosis heterogeneous, small juxtaposed scales intermixed with tubercles; pupil vertical; tail segmented, caudal tubercles with bases in the middle of each segment, separated from posterior margin of segment by ring of scales (Fathinia et al. 2011); This diagnosis is based on Anderson 1999 and Szczerbak & Golubev (1986). |
| Comment | Type species: Bunopus aspratilis ANDERSON 1973 is the type species of the genus Carinatogecko GOLUBEV & SZCZERBAK 1981. ČERVENKA et al. (2010) and Bauer et al. 2013 showed that Carinatogecko nests within Mediodactylus (Type species: Gymnodactylus kotschyi STEINDACHNER 1870) and thus synonymized Carinatogecko with Mediodactylus. Torki 2020 argued that Carinatogecko is valid, based on morphological grounds.
Distribution: See map in SMID et al. 2014 for distribution in Iran. |
| Etymology | Named after Latin aspratilis with rough scales, from L. asper rough (Lewis, 1969). |
| References |
- Anderson, S. C. 1973. A new species of Bunopus (Reptilia: Gekkonidae) from Iran and a key to lizards of the genus Bunopus. Herpetologica 29: 355-358. - get paper here
- Anderson, Steven C 1999. The lizards of Iran. Contributions to Herpetology Volume 15, Society for the Study of Amphibians and Reptiles, Saint Louis, Missouri: i-vii, 1-442 [review in Copeia 2000 (4): 1144] - 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
- ČERVENKA, JAN; DANIEL FRYNTA & LUKÁŠ KRATOCHVÍL 2010. Phylogenetic relationships of the gecko genus Carinatogecko (Reptilia: Gekkonidae). Zootaxa 2636: 59–64 - get paper here
- Fathinia, Behzad; Rasoul Karamiani, Hamid Darvishnia, Naghi Heidari, and Nasrullah Rastegar-Pouyani. 2011. A new species of Carinatogecko (Sauria: Gekkonidae) from Ilam Province, western Iran. Amphibian & Reptile Conservation 5 (1): 61-74 - get paper here
- Gholamifard, A 2011. Endemism in the reptile fauna of Iran. Iranian Journal of Animal Biosystematics 7 (1) - get paper here
- Golubev, M. L., and N. N. Szczerbak 1981. Carinatogecko gen. n. (Reptilia, Gekkonidae) - a new genus from south-west Asia [in Russian]. Vestnik Zoologii, Kiev 1981 (5):34—41.
- Kamali, Kamran 2020. A Field Guide to the Reptiles and Amphibians of Iran. Edition Chimaira, Frankfurt am Main, Germany (www.chimaira.de). 574 pp.
- Kami, H. G. 1999. A new record of Carinatogecko aspratilis in Iran (Reptilia: Gekkonidae). Zoology in the Middle East 17: 15 - get paper here
- Karamiani, Rasoul and Nasrullah Rastegar-Pouyani. 2011. A new record of the keel-scaled geko, Carinatogecko aspratilis (Anderson, 1973) (Sauria: Gekkonidae) from western Iran. Herpetology Notes 4: 337-339 - get paper here
- Nazari-Serenjeh, F. & Torki, F. 2008. Einige ökologische Aspekte von Carinatogecko aspratilis (ANDERSON 1973) (Gekkonidae: Reptilia). Sauria 30 (2): 23-28 - get paper here
- RASTEGAR-POUYANI, NASRULLAH; HAJI GHOLI KAMI, MEHDI RAJABZADEH, SOHEILA SHAFIEI AND STEVEN CLEMENT ANDERSON 2008. Annotated Checklist of Amphibians and Reptiles of Iran. Iranian Journal of Animal Biosystematics 4 (1): 7-30
- Rösler, H. 2000. Kommentierte Liste der rezent, subrezent und fossil bekannten Geckotaxa (Reptilia: Gekkonomorpha). Gekkota 2: 28-153
- 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]
- Sindaco, R. & Jeremcenko, V.K. 2008. The reptiles of the Western Palearctic. Edizioni Belvedere, Latina (Italy), 579 pp. - 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. 2020. A new gecko genus from Zagros Mountains, Iran. Amphibian & Reptile Conservation 14(1) [General Section]: 55–62 (e223) - get paper here
- Torki, F. 2011. Description of a new species of Carinatogecko (Squamata: Gekkonidae) from Iran. Salamandra 47 (2): 103-111 - get paper here
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