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Mediodactylus sagittifer (NIKOLSKY, 1900)

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Higher TaxaGekkonidae, Gekkota, Sauria, Squamata (lizards: geckos)
Subspecies 
Common NamesE: Jaz Murian Bent-Toed Gecko, Bampur Thin-Toed Gecko 
SynonymGymnodactylus sagittifer NIKOLSKY 1900: 379
Gymnodactylus heterocercus heterocercus — WETTSTEIN & LÖFFLER 1951: 432
Cyrtodactylus saggitifer — ANDERSON 1974: 33 (in error)
Tenuidactylus sagittifer — SZCZERBAK & GOLUBEV 1984: 54
Cyrtopodion (Mediodactylus) sagittifer — BÖHME 1985: 96
Mediodactylus sagittifer — KLUGE 1993
Cyrtopodion sagittifer — ANDERSON 199: 166
Cyrtopodion (Mediodactylus) sagittifer — RÖSLER 2000: 75
Cyrtopodion sagittiferum — FROST 2007 (pers. comm.)
Cyrtopodion sagittifer — NAZAROV & RAJABIZADEH 2007
Cyrtopodion (Mediodactylus) sagittifer — SINDACO & JEREMČENKO 2008
Mediodactylus sagittifer — ČERVENKA & KRATOCHVÍL 2010
Mediodactylus sagittifer — BAUER et al. 2013 
DistributionSE Iran (Sistan and Baluchistan), Pakistan

Type locality: “Kirmano in Persia orientali”. “Bampur and Farra, south-eastern Iran” fide ANDERSON 1999, [restricted to Bampur by SZCZERBAK & GOLUBEV 1986:180]  
Reproductionoviparous 
TypesLectotype: ZISP (also as ZIL) 9331, designated by SZCZERBAK & GOLUBEV 1986:180; paralectotypes: ZISP (ZIL) 9332-9333 
DiagnosisDIAGNOSIS. Dorsal tubercles oval, keeled; diameter of ear opening smaller than half of longitudinal diameter of eye ; no more than 90 GVA; scales and plates of tail as well as scales of upper front surfaces of limbs with distinct keels. (SZCZERBAK & GOLUBEV 1996: 176)


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CommentSynonymy: Cyrtopodion dehakroense is conspecific with Mediodactylus sagittifer fide ČERVENKA & KRATOCHVIL 2010, NAZAROV et al 2012. NAZAROV et al 2012: 298 also say (a bit confusingly) that dehakroense is a junior synonym of C. brevipes. Masroor et al. 2025 resurrected dehakroense from the synonymy of sagittifer.

Habitat: trees.

Distribution: See map in SMID et al. 2014 for distribution in Iran. 
EtymologyNamed after Latin sagittifer, arrow-bearing; armed with arrows, apparently for the arrow shaped dorsal pattern. 
References
  • ANANJEVA, NATALIA B.; KONSTANTIN D. MILTO, ANDREI V. BARABANOV, EVGENY A. GOLYNSKY 2020. An annotated type catalogue of amphibians and reptiles collected by Nikolay A. Zarudny in Iran and Middle Asia. Zootaxa 4722 (2): 101–128 - 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
  • Anderson,S.C. 1974. Preliminary key to the turtles, lizards, and amphisbaenians of Iran. Fieldiana: Zoology 65: 27-44 - 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
  • Böhme, W. 1985. Zur Nomenklatur der paläarktischen Bogenfingergeckos, Gattung Tenuidactylus Szczerbak & Golubev 1984 (Reptilia: Gekkonidae). Bonner Zoologische Beiträge 36: 95-98 - get paper here
  • Červenka, Jan and Lukáš Kratochvíl 2010. Generic reassignment and validity of the recently described species Cyrtopodion dehakroense. Herpetology Notes 3: 135-137
  • Kamali, Kamran 2020. A Field Guide to the Reptiles and Amphibians of Iran. Edition Chimaira, Frankfurt am Main, Germany (www.chimaira.de). 574 pp.
  • Masroor, R. 2009. A new arboreal species of Cyrtopodion (Squamata: Gekkonidae) from Deh Akro-II Wetlands Complex, Sindh, Pakistan. Zootaxa 2243: 57-67 [erratum in Zootaxa 2307: 68] - get paper here
  • MASROOR, R., AMIR, S. A., & JABLONSKI, D. 2025. Resurrection of the dead: on the validity of the micro-endemic lizard Mediodactylus dehakroensis (Masroor, 2009) from Pakistan. Zootaxa 5647(1), 96-100 - get paper here
  • Nazarov, Roman A. and Mehdi Rajabizadeh 2007. A new species of angular-goed gecko of the genus Cyrtopodion (Squamata: Sauria: Gekkonidae) from south-east Iran (Sistan-Baluchistan province). Russ. J. Herpetol. 14 (2):137-144 - get paper here
  • Nazarov, Roman A., Natalia B. Ananjeva and J. Theodore Papenfuss. 2011. A new species of thin-toes geckos Cyrtopodion sensu lato (Squamata: Sauria: Gekkonidae) from Balochistan Province, South Pakistan. Russ. J. Herpetol. 18 (2): 130-137 - get paper here
  • Nazarov, Roman A.;Dmitry А. Bondarenko, Mehdi Radjabizadeh 2012. A New Species of Thin-Toed Geckos Cyrtopodion sensu lato (Squamata: Sauria: Gekkonidae) from Hormozgan Province, South Iran. Russ. J. Herpetol. 19 (4): 292-298 - get paper here
  • Nazarov, Roman; Natalia Ananjeva, and Mehdi Radjabizadeh 2010. Two New Species of Angular-Toed Geckoes (Squamata: Gekkonidae) from South Iran. Russ. J. Herpetol. 16 (4): 311-324 [2009] - get paper here
  • Nikolsky, A. M. 1900. Reptiles, amphibies et poissons, recueillis pendant le voyage de Mr. N. A. Zaroudny en 1898 dans la Perse [in Russian] Annuaire Musée Zoologique de l’Académie Impériale des Sciences de St.-Pétersbourg, 4 [1899]: 375-417. - 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
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