Parsigecko ziaiei SAFAEI-MAHROO, GHAFFARI & ANDERSON, 2016

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Higher Taxa	Gekkonidae, Gekkota, Sauria, Squamata (lizards: geckos)
Subspecies
Common Names	English: Ziaie’s Pars-Gecko Persian: Gecko-ye Parsi-ye Ziaie
Synonym	Parsigecko ziaiei SAFAEI-MAHROO, GHAFFARI & ANDERSON 2016
Distribution	Iran (Hormozgan Province) Type locality: Koh-e Homag Protected Area (27°51.790’ N, 56°18.567’ E, elevation 1596 m), north of Zakin village, Hormozgan Province, southern Iran
Reproduction	oviparous
Types	Holotype: CAS 259180, gravid female collected by Barbod Safaei-Mahroo on 10 June 2015. Paratype: CAS 259181, gravid female collected by Barbod Safaei-Mahroo on 10 June 2015 within Koh-e Homag Protected Area (27°51.886’ N, 56°18.463’ E, elevation 1697 m), 300 meters from the holotype locality, north of Zakin village, Hormozgan Province, southern Iran (Figure 9A, C).
Diagnosis	Diagnosis (genus): The monotypic genus of family Gekkonidae is readily distinguished from all other genera of the family by a combination of the following characters: dorsal scales smooth, granular, subequal in size, not tuberculate and not imbricated, two strongly keeled scales on each side of each annulus of tail. Other characteristics of the new genus are given in the species description. This genus is distinguished from all other bent-toed geckos in lacking dorsal tubercles, and from Microgecko Nikolsky, 1907 in its enlarged lateral caudal scales and its single row of enlarged subcaudal scales. Additional details (1398 characters) are available for collaborators and contributors. Please contact us for details.
Comment	Phylogenetics: the authors did not provide a phylogenetic analysis of the new genus or species. Type species: Parsigecko ziaiei is the type species of the genus Parsigecko SAFAEI-MAHROO, GHAFFARI & ANDERSON 2016. Abundance: only known from its original description (Meiri et al. 2017).
Etymology	Named in honor of Hooshang Ziaie, lecturer at IAU University, North Tehran Branch, a distinguished Iranian ecologist and former head of three provincial (Fars, Khuzestan and Mazandaran) offices of the Department of Environment and advisor to Department of Environment of Iran, in recognition of his remarkable and outstanding efforts toward wildlife conservation in Iran. The genus nomen Parsigecko is derived from the word “Pars” which refers to an old name for Iran, the country where the new genus was found. Pars was the ancient seat of the Persian Empire which was centered in south-central Iran.
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 SAFAEI-MAHROO, BARBOD; HANYEH GHAFFARI, & STEVEN C. ANDERSON 2016. A new genus and species of gekkonid lizard (Squamata: Gekkota: Gekkonidae) from Hormozgan Province with a revised key to gekkonid genera of Iran. Zootaxa 4109 (4): 428–444 - get paper here
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