Hemidactylus dawudazraqi MORAVEC, KRATOCHVÍL, AMR, JANDZIK, ŠMÍD & GVOŽDÍK, 2011
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Hemidactylus dawudazraqi
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| Higher Taxa | Gekkonidae, Gekkota, Sauria, Squamata (lizards: geckos) |
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| Synonym | Hemidactylus dawudazraqi MORAVEC, KRATOCHVÍL, AMR, JANDZIK, ŠMÍD & GVOŽDÍK 2011 Hemidactylus turcica — FLOWER 1933 Hemidactylus turcicus turcicus — WERNER 1971 Hemidactylus turcicus turcicus — DISI 1996, 2002 Hemidactylus turcicus turcicus — MORAVEC & BÖHME 1997 Hemidactylus turcicus turcicus — DISI & AMR 1998 Hemidactylus turcicus turcicus — DISI et al. 1999, 2001, 2004 Hemidactylus turcicus turcicus — CARRANZA & ARNOLD 2006 Hemidactylus turcicus turcicus — AMR et al. 2007 Hemidactylus turcicus lavadeserticus — CARRANZA & ARNOLD 2006 Hemidactylus cf. dawudazraqi — SINDACO et al. 2014 |
| Distribution | Jordan, Syria Type locality: Azraq, 31°49.770’N, 36°48.433’E, ca. 515 m elevation, Jordan. |
| Reproduction | oviparous (not imputed, fide Zimin et al. 2022) |
| Types | Holotype: NMP P6V 74134/1, adult male, collected on 1–2 July 2006 by L. Kratochvíl, GenBank Acc. No. HQ833753 (Cytb). |
| Diagnosis | Diagnosis: A species of the Arid species group of Hemidactylus as revealed from mtDNA analyses, which can be distinguished by the following molecular and morphological characters: (1) diagnostic nucleotide substitutions in Cytb, from all other Levantine taxa in positions 28 A (adenine) → G (guanine), 29 T (thymine) → C (cytosine), 175 A → G, 176 C → A, 246 T → C, 426 C → A, 531 C → T, 564 T → C, 663 A → C, 792 C → A, 985 G → T (GenBank Acc. Nos. HQ833749–HQ833758); (2) small size, SVL 40.1–47.8 mm in males, 41.4–49.9 mm in females; (3) robust head, head depth 44.9–56.4 % of head length, head width 74.3–90.7 % of head length; (4) long tail, tail length 119.8–140.9 % of SVL; (5) nasals separated by a small scale in 92 % of individuals; (6) large ante- rior postmentals in contact with 1st and less frequently also with the 2nd lower labials, both postmentals in contact with the 2nd lower labials in 8 %; (7) 8–11 upper labials; (8) 6-8 lower labials; (9) 12–15 rows of large, round, conical, slightly keeled, dorsal tubercles; (10) 6–7 lamellae under the 1st toe and 9–12 lamellae under the 4th toe; (11) 5–8 tail segments bearing 6 tubercles; (12) 6–8 preanal pores in males; (13) in life, dorsum pinkish or yellowish white to yellowish orange with a pattern of irregular light brown to orange brown crossbars, head with dark lon- gitudinal streak in loreal and postocular area, tail with a conspicuous pattern of 9–11 dark brown to black transverse bands on yellowish white to white background. |
| Comment | Synonymy: after MORAVEC et al. 2011. Distribution: see map in Pola et al. 2023: 4 (Fig. 1). |
| Etymology | The specific name is a patronym for our colleague and friend David Modrý in recognition of his important contributions to the knowledge of the Jordanian herpetofauna. The name is used in its Arabic form as a compound of Arabic Dawud (David) and Azraq (the name of the type locality meaning “Blue” in English and “Modrý” in Czech). |
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