Cyrtopodion nasrullahi NAZAROV, NABIZADEH, RAJABIZADEH, MOADDAB, NIKOLAEV, SOLOVYEVA, MELNIKOV, ANANJEVA, POYARKOV & RATSEGAR-POUYANI, 2026
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Cyrtopodion nasrullahi
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| Higher Taxa | Gekkonidae, Gekkota, Sauria, Squamata (lizards: geckos) |
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| Synonym | Cyrtopodion nasrullahi NAZAROV, NABIZADEH, RAJABIZADEH, MOADDAB, NIKOLAEV, SOLOVYEVA, MELNIKOV, ANANJEVA, POYARKOV & RATSEGAR-POUYANI 2026: 124 |
| Distribution | Iran (Hormozgan) Type locality: Iran, Hormozgan Prov., 25 km N from Jask (25.800001° N 57.816668° E; elevation 74 m a.s.l.), |
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| Types | Holotype. ZMMU R-15966 (RAN 3376). Adult male collected 25.04.2018 by Roman Nazarov, Daniel Melnikov, and Hossain Nabizadeh. Paratypes. Total 19 specimens 12 adult males and 7 adult females: six males ZMMU R-15967 (RAN 3374), R-15968 (RAN 3380), 15969 (RAN 3381), R-15970 (RAN 3382), R-15971 (RAN 3385), R-16001 (RAN 3373) and three females R-15972 (RAN 3375), R-15973 (RAN 3377), R-15974 (RAN 3378); two males ZIPS 30419 (RAN 3386) and one female ZISP 30420 (RAN 3387), ZISP 30421 (RAN 3379); four males and three females deposited in the National Museum of Natural History (MMTT) in Tehran with the numbers MMTT. Z. REP1581 (RAN 3388), MMTT.Z.REP.1582 (RAN 3389), MMTT.Z.REP.1583 (RAN 3390), MMTT.Z. REP.1584 (RAN 3391), MMTT.Z.REP.1585 (RAN 3383), MMTT.Z.REP.1586 (RAN 3384), MMTT.Z.REP. 1587 (RAN 3392). All members of the type series of new species were collected at the same locality (Fig. 17). |
| Diagnosis | Diagnosis (n=19). SVLmax known for adult male 46.3 mm and for female 46.4 mm, original tail about 1.1 – 1.2 times longer than body (52 – 61 mm); rounded snout with relatively short rostrum (HeadLGSnEye 2.81); eye large (HeadLGOrbD 3.9); smooth round dorsal tubercles organized in 8 – 10 rows across the middorsum, 21 – 26 tubercles in paravertebral row; enlarged tubercles weakly distinguished on the dorsal surface of hind limbs and forearm and absent on shoulders; tail segments formed by enlarged, strongly-keeled elongate tubercles on the basal third of the tail, distal part of the tail smooth; subcaudals in single median row of transversely enlarged plates, bifurcate at the tip of original tail; 18 – 24 abdominal scales across middle of belly, 82 – 108 midventral scales along body. Males usually have 6 precloacal pores, located in a continuous row of scales. No enlarged femoral scales or femoral pores; 8 – 10 infralabial scales, 11 – 14 supralabials; large triangular mental plate, three pairs of postmentals, first pair in the broad contact. Limbs and tail are thin and elongate. Dorsal pattern poorly defined, not contrasting and formed by small, dark, irregular rounded spots. Sometimes dark spots form transverse patterns of 6 – 7 dorsal bands. On the tail 7 – 9 dark, wide transverse bands with whitish tip without pattern. The ventral surface of the body is white, ventral surface of the tail with poorly defined dark wide bands. (Nazarov et al. 2026) Unfortunately we had to temporarily remove additional information as this was scraped by multiple AI companies who sell that data. However, these details, e.g. detailed descriptions (about less than half a page) are available for collaborators and contributors. Please contact us if you need any of this material. |
| Comment | Status: this species should be considered as preliminary, given that the authors only used a COI fragment for sequencing and did not compare it to all Iranian species (which are also not all shown on the map). |
| Etymology | Named after Iranian herpetologist Dr. Nasrulla Rastegar-Pouyani, who discovered numerous species new to science and made an invaluable contribution to the study of the herpetofauna of Iran. |
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