| Diagnosis | Diagnosis: A medium sized gecko (≤55.7 mm from snout to vent), with four pairs of postmentals bordered by 21-24 granules; mental scale large and bell-shaped and wider than long; rostral scale more than twice as wide as high, entire, without median depression; two large internasals in broad contact behind the rostral, with a convex profile and shallow depression between them; gular scales smooth and granular, 57-58 gulars in a longitudinal row between postmental and gular line; dorsal tubercles round, oval and mainly smooth with tubercles weakly pointed and keeled separated by 4-6 scales; ventral scales cycloid-hexagonal, smooth, larger than dorsal granules; tail tubercles arranged in whorls, each whorl consisting of six large, trihedral and keeled tubercles (Rastegar-Pouyani, 1996; Anderson, 1999; Rastegar-Pouyani et al., 2007). [Parsa et al. 2009]
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