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Cyrtopodion watsoni (MURRAY, 1892)

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Higher TaxaGekkonidae, Gekkota, Sauria, Squamata (lizards: geckos)
Subspecies 
Common NamesE: Pakistani thin-toed gecko, Watson's Gecko, Northern Spotted Ground Gecko 
SynonymGymnodactylus watsoni MURRAY 1892: 68
Gymnodactylus ingoldby PROCTER 1923 (fide KLUGE 1993)
Gymnodactylus kachhensis watsoni — SMITH 1935: 44
Gymnodactylus kachhensis watsoni — WERMUTH 1965: 55
Cyrtodactylus watsoni — MINTON 1966: 79
Tenuidactylus (Mesodactylus) watsoni — SZCZERBAK & GOLUBEV 1984: 55
Cyrtopodion (Cyrtopodion) watsoni — BÖHME 1985: 96
Tenuidactylus watsoni — SZCZERBAK & GOLUBEV 1986: 188
Tenuidactylus watsoni — KHAN & TASNIM 1990
Cyrtopodion watsoni — KLUGE 1993
Cyrtopodion (Cyrtopodion) watsoni — RÖSLER 2000: 76
Cyrtopodion watsoni — NAZAROV & RAJABIZADEH 2007
Cyrtopodion (Cyrtopodion) watsoni — SINDACO & JEREMČENKO 2008 
DistributionPakistan, Afghanistan (Quetta)

Type locality: “Quetta”, West Pakistan  
Reproductionoviparous 
TypesHolotype: unknown (fide SZCZERBAK & GOLUBEV 1996). 
Diagnosis 
CommentDistribution: Does probably not occur in India (I. DAS, pers. comm.) 
EtymologyNamed after the collector of the types, “Lieut. E. Y. Watson, of H. M.’s 47th Regiment.” 
References
  • Anderson, S. C. & A. E. Leviton 1969. Amphibians and reptiles collected by the Street expedition to Afghanistan, 1965. Proc. Cal. Acad. Sci. (4) 37: 25-56 - 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
  • Beolens, Bo; Michael Watkins, and Michael Grayson 2011. The Eponym Dictionary of Reptiles. Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore, USA - 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
  • Jablonski D, Regan JM, Holzheuser C, Farooqi J, Basit A, Masroor R 2019. Additional data to the herpetofauna of Afghanistan. Herpetozoa 32: 177-193 - get paper here
  • Khan M S; Tasnim R 1990. A new gecko of the genus Tenuidactylus from northeastern Punjab, Pakistan, and southwestern Azad Kashmir. Herpetologica 46 (2) 1990: 142-148 - get paper here
  • Khan, M.S. 2003. Anmerkungen zur Morphologie, Verbreitung und den Habitatpräferenzen einiger pakistanischer Geckos. Sauria 25 (3): 35-47 [erratum in 25 (4): 27] - get paper here
  • Khan, M.S. 2003. CHECKLIST AND KEY TO THE LIZARDS OF PAKISTAN. Pakistan J. Zool. Suppl. Ser. (1): 1-25 - get paper here
  • Khan, M.S. 2008. Review of the morphology, ecology, and distribution of geckos of the genus Cyrtopodion, with a note on generic placement of Cyrtopodion brachykolon Krysko et. al., 2007. Caspian Journal of Environmental Sciences 6: 79–86
  • Khan, Muhammad Sharif 2005. An Overview of the Angular-toed Geckos of Pakistan (Squamata: Gekkonidae). Gekko 4 (2): 20-30
  • Krysko, K. L.; Rehman, H. & Auffenberg, K. 2007. A new species of Cyrtopodion (Gekkonidae: Gekkoninae) from Pakistan. Herpetologica 63 (1): 100-113 - get paper here
  • Masroor, R. 2008. A new species of Cyrtopodion (Sauria: Gekkonidae) from the northern areas of Pakistan. Zootaxa 1857: 33-43 - get paper here
  • 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
  • Minton, S. A. Jr. 1966. A contribution to the herpetology of West Pakistan. Bull. Amer. Mus. Nat. Hist., 134: 29-184. - get paper here
  • Murray, J. A. 1892. The zoology of Beloochistan and southern Afghanistan. (Reptiles and Batrachia). Bombay, Pp. 66—73.
  • 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.;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
  • Procter, J. B. 1923. Lacertilia. Pp. 120-127. In Ingoldby, C. M., and J. B. Proctor. Notes on a collection of Reptilia from Waziristan and the adjoining portion of the N. W. Frontier Province. J. Bombay Nat. Hist. Soc. 29:117-130. - get paper here
  • Rösler, H. 2000. Kommentierte Liste der rezent, subrezent und fossil bekannten Geckotaxa (Reptilia: Gekkonomorpha). Gekkota 2: 28-153
  • Rösler, Herbert and Frank Glaw. 2009. Morphologische Variation von Cyrtopodion kachhense (Stoliczka, 1872), C. scabrum (Heyden, 1827) und C. watsoni (Murray, 1892) (Reptilia: Sauria: Gekkonidae) aus Belutschistan (Pakistan). Sauria 30 (4):11-18 [2008] - get paper here
  • Shcherbak, N. N. [= Szczerbak], and M. L. Golubev 1996. Gecko fauna of the USSR and contiguous regions. SSAR [Russian original published in 1986]. [book review in Salamandra 36 (2): 138]
  • Shcherbak, N. N. [= Szczerbak], and M. L. Golubev. 1984. O rorowoj prinadleshnosti i wnutrirodowoj strukture palearktitscheskich goloralyx gekkonow (Reptilia, Gekkonidae, Tenuidactylus gen. nov.). Vestnik Zoologii, Kiev 1984 (2): 50-56
  • Sindaco, R. & Jeremcenko, V.K. 2008. The reptiles of the Western Palearctic. Edizioni Belvedere, Latina (Italy), 579 pp. - get paper here
  • Smith, M.A. 1935. The fauna of British India, including Ceylon and Burma. Reptiles and Amphibia, Vol. II. Sauria. Taylor and Francis, London, 440 pp.
 
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