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Tenuidactylus turcmenicus (SZCZERBAK, 1978)

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Higher TaxaGekkonidae, Gekkota, Sauria, Squamata (lizards: geckos)
Subspecies 
Common NamesE: Turkmenian Thin-Toed Gecko 
SynonymGymnodactylus turcmenicus SZCZERBAK 1978
Tenuidactylus turcmenicus — SZCZERBAK & GOLUBEV 1984: 55
Cyrtopodion (Tenuidactylus) turcmenicus — BÖHME 1985: 96
Tenuidactylus turcmenicus — KHAN & TASNIM 1990
Cyrtodactylus turcmenicus — OTA, HIKIDA, MATSUI & MORI 1992: 44
Tenuidactylus turcmenicus — KLUGE 1993
Cyrtopodion turcmenicum — ANDERSON 1999: 170
Cyrtopodion (Tenuidactylus) turcmenicus — RÖSLER 2000: 76
Tenuidactylus turcmenicus — SZCZERBAK 2003
Cyrtopodion turcmenicum — FROST 2007 (pers. comm.)
Cyrtopodion (Tenuidactylus) turcmenicum — SINDACO & JEREMČENKO 2008
Tenuidactylus turcmenicus — BAUER et al. 2013 
Distributionformer USSR, S Turkmenistan, N Afghanistan, N Iran

Type locality: near Kushka, Badghyz, S Turkmenistan  
Reproductionoviparous 
TypesHolotype: NMNHU (formerly ZIK) Re No. 10, adult male 
DiagnosisDiagnosis: Both femoral and preanal pores present; one to six subfemoral tubercles present; 30 or more preanal-femoral pores in males; usually more than 115 (up to 133) ventral scales from postmentals to vent; 25-32 ventral scales across midbody; 8-12 scales across head; dorsal tubercles triangular roundish or trihedral, usually large, 26-30 in paravertebral row from occiput to level of vent, usually one to three additional tubercles present; 2-3 (usually 3) pairs of postmentals, the scales of first pair broadly in contact; usually two rows
of scales between row of femoral pores and vent; finger tips of adpressed forelimb reach tip of snout; length of forelimb 33-38% of body length). (Szczerbak and Golubev, 1986:141 [1996:138], Anderson 1999: 170). 
CommentDistribution: See map in SMID et al. 2014 for distribution in Iran. 
EtymologyNamed after the type locality. 
References
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  • 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
  • Böhme, W. 1985. Zur Nomenklatur der paläarktischen Bogenfingergeckos, Gattung Tenuidactylus Szczerbak & Golubev 1984 (Reptilia: Gekkonidae). Bonner Zoologische Beiträge 36: 95-98 - get paper here
  • Jablonski D, Urošević A, Andjelković M, Džukić G 2019. An unknown collection of lizards from Afghanistan. ZooKeys 843: 129-147 - get paper here
  • Jablonski, Daniel; Sjoerd van Bemmel, Rafaqat Masroor 2021. Notes on the herpetofauna of Kunduz Province, northeastern Afghanistan, with the first record of Varanus griseus caspius (Eichwald, 1831). Herpetology Notes 14: 63-66 - get paper here
  • Joisten, F. 2013. Amphibien und Reptilien in Nord-Afghanistan. Reptilia (Münster) 18 (103): 86-93 - get paper here
  • Kamali, Kamran 2020. A Field Guide to the Reptiles and Amphibians of Iran. Edition Chimaira, Frankfurt am Main, Germany (www.chimaira.de). 574 pp.
  • Khan M S 1991. A new Tenuidactylus gecko from the Sulaiman Range, Punjab, Pakistan. Journal of Herpetology 25 (2): 199-204 - get paper here
  • Khan M S; Tasnim R 1990. A new gecko of the genus Tenuidactylus from northeastern Punjab, Pakistan, and southwestern Azad Kashmir. Herpetologica 46 (2) 1990: 142-148 - get paper here
  • Khan, M.S. 2008. Review of the morphology, ecology, and distribution of geckos of the genus Cyrtopodion, with a note on generic placement of Cyrtopodion brachykolon Krysko et. al., 2007. Caspian Journal of Environmental Sciences 6: 79–86
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  • Ota, H.;Hikida, T.;Matsui, M.;Mori, A. 1992. Karyotypes of two species of the genus Cyrtodactylus (Squamata: Gekkonidae) from Sarawak, Malaysia. Caryologia 45: 43-49 - get paper here
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