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Asaccus barani TORKI, AHMADZADEH, ILGAZ, AVCI & KUMLUTAS, 2011

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Higher TaxaPhyllodactylidae, Gekkota, Sauria, Squamata (lizards: geckos)
Subspecies 
Common Names 
SynonymAsaccus barani TORKI, AHMADZADEH, ILGAZ, AVCI & KUMLUTAS 2011
Asaccus elisae — DIXON & ANDERSON 1973
Asacus [sic] elisae — BARAN & GRUBER 1982
Asaccus elisae — ARNOLD & GARDNER 1994
Asaccus elisae — TOK et al. 1997
Asaccus elisae — FRANZEN et al. 2002)
Asaccus elisae — TOK et al. 2002
Asaccus elisae — BARAN et al. 2003
Asaccus elisae — TORKI et al. 2008 
DistributionTurkey (SE Anatolia)

Type locality: Harran, Sanlıurfa, Southeastern Anatolia, Turkey, 36°51′N, 39° 00′ E, 380-390 m elevation.  
Reproductionoviparous (manual imputation, fide Zimin et al. 2022) 
TypesHolotype: ZDEU 70/2001-1, an adult male collected on 31 April 200 by I. Baran, Y. Kum-lutas ̧, Ç. Ilgaz and A. Avcı. 
DiagnosisDiagnosis: Medium size Asaccus (34-56 mm);the dorsal body is covered all over by tubercles; keeled trihedral dorsal tubercles are be-tween type a and b, simple and pointed tuber-cles are intermixed with keeled dorsal tubercles;dorsolateral tubercles are pointed or simple; tu-bercles present on occipital and especially neckshow considerable variation in size and type;several pointed or keeled tubercles are in frontof eyes; two small tubercles (one simple and onekeeled) are between ear-eye; several keeled orsimple tubercles are on the arm, some of themare similar to scales; elbow and knee scales aregenerally tubercular like (simple); forearm tu-bercles extend onto elbow in most the speci-mens; forearm tubercles also extend onto kneein some specimens; several keeled tubercles areon palm of hindlimbs, 1st, 2nd and 3rd digits;two large postmentals; interhindlimbs scales aresame size to ventrals but are mostly same shape to ventral of thigh; mental pentagonal; claves in from of the scansors [from TORKI et al. 2011].


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Comment 
EtymologyNamed after Professor Ibrahim Baran of the University of Dokuz Eylül, Izmir, to acknowledge his prolific and uninterrupted contribution to the herpetology of Turkey. 
References
  • Beolens, Bo; Michael Watkins, and Michael Grayson 2011. The Eponym Dictionary of Reptiles. Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore, USA - get paper here
  • Torki, F.; Ahmadzadeh, F.; Ilgaz, C.; Avci, A. & Kumlutas, Y. 2011. Description of four new Asaccus Dixon and Anderson, 1973 (Reptilia: Phyllodactylidae) from Iran and Turkey. Amphibia-Reptilia 32 (2): 185-202 - get paper here
  • Uca, Onur; Hüseyin Arikan, Kerim Cicek 2017. Blood cell morphology of Turkish gekkonid lizards (Squamata: Sauria: Gekkonidae, Phyllodactylidae). Herpetozoa 30 (1/2): 29 - 37 - get paper here
  • Zimin, A., Zimin, S. V., Shine, R., Avila, L., Bauer, A., Böhm, M., Brown, R., Barki, G., de Oliveira Caetano, G. H., Castro Herrera, F., Chapple, D. G., Chirio, L., Colli, G. R., Doan, T. M., Glaw, F., Grismer, L. L., Itescu, Y., Kraus, F., LeBreton 2022. A global analysis of viviparity in squamates highlights its prevalence in cold climates. Global Ecology and Biogeography, 00, 1–16 - get paper here
 
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