Altiphylax baturensis (KHAN & BAIG, 1992)
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Altiphylax baturensis
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| Higher Taxa | Gekkonidae, Gekkota, Sauria, Squamata (lizards: geckos) |
| Subspecies | |
| Common Names | E: Batura Glacier Gecko |
| Synonym | Tenuidactylus baturensis KHAN & BAIG 1992 Tenuidactylus baturensis — KLUGE 1993 Cyrtopodion (Tenuidactylus) baturensis — RÖSLER 2000: 68 Cyrtodactylus baturensis — KHAN 1999 Mesodactylus baturensis — KHAN 1999 Altigekko baturensis — KHAN 2003 Cyrtopodion baturense — FROST 2007 (pers. comm.) Altiphylax baturensis — SINDACO & JEREMČENKO 2008 Cyrtopodion baturense — AUFFENBERG et al. 2010 Altiphylax baturensis — BAUER et al. 2013 |
| Distribution | N Pakistan (NE Gilgit Agency, Federally Administered Northern Areas (FANA)), Hunza River; elevation 2,438–3,078 m Type locality: Pasu, Gilgit Agency N Pakistan (36° 20’ N, 74° 50’ E), elevation 8025 ft. |
| Reproduction | oviparous |
| Types | Holotype: BMNH 1990.3 |
| Diagnosis | Diagnosis (genus Altigekko, stoliczkai subroup) “Body and tail depressed, tail a little longer than body, segments marked by deep lateral lobulations along the anterior half of un regenerated tail. Tail fragile at its base; regenerated tail much swollen; caudal tubercles small, conical, protuberant, arising from the middle of segments, indistinct by midtail; subcaudals in several rows; postfemoral tubercles absent; dorsal granular scales convex, mostly juxtaposed, arranged in lateral transverse rows, interspersed with large (three times the size of granular scales), convex, smooth or feebly keeled oval tubercles arranged in more or less longitudinal rows, rare on head and limbs, no supracilliary spines on the posterior dorsal part of the upper eyelid; a distinct frontal and postnasal pit. Interorbital scales 16-20; scales across midabdomen 27-32, midventrals 117-150; preanal and femoral pores absent in both sexes.” (Gruber, 1981; Khan, 1992, Khan 2003) |
| Comment | Type Species: Tenuidactylus baturensis KHAN & BAIG 1992 is the type species of the genus Altigekko KHAN 2003. For a comparison of characters among Siwaligekko, Altigekko, Indogekko, and Cyrtopodion, see Khan 2009. C. baturense is similar to but immediately separable from C. stoliczkai by a number of characters, i.e. character 12 = number of large, lateral tubercles on each tail whorl, character 19 = number of scale rows per tail whorl, character 34 = medial subcaudals, character 35 = distal scale row of tail whorl. |
| Etymology | The new gecko is named after Batura Glacier which lies between Pasu (36° 20'N, 74° 50' E) and Khaiber (36° 35' N, 74° 47' E) the type localities, lying on the western bank of the Hunza River, Gilgit Agency. The genus Altigekko was named after its high altitude distribution in the Greater Himalayas (Karakorams), in northeastern Pakistan and India. |
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