Hemidactylus romeshkanicus TORKI, MANTHEY & BARTS, 2011
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Hemidactylus romeshkanicus
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| Higher Taxa | Gekkonidae, Gekkota, Sauria, Squamata (lizards: geckos) |
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| Synonym | Hemidactylus romeshkanicus TORKI, MANTHEY & BARTS 2011 Hemidactylus romeshkanicus — SAFAEI-MAHROO et al. 2015 Hemidactylus kurdicus SAFAEI-MAHROO, GHAFFARI, GHAFOOR & AMINI 2017 |
| Distribution | Iran (Lorestan: Zagros Mountains) Type locality: Western slope of the central Zagros Mountains, Romeshkan region, Lorestan Province, W Iran, elevation 1100 m (33° 16’ N, 47° 35’ E). kurdicus: NE Iraq (Sulaimani Province: Qara Dagh Mountain);Type locality: Qara-Dagh Mountains (35°14.057’ N, 45°22.871’ E, elevation 1139 m), south west of Qara Dagh village, Sulaimani Province, Northeastern Iraq |
| Reproduction | oviparous (manual imputation, fide Zimin et al. 2022) |
| Types | Holotype: ZMB 75020 Holotype: CAS 262258 (MorphoBank M452298-M452302), collected by Barbod Safaei-Mahroo on 05 September 2016 at 20h45. Paratypes: CAS 262259, MorphoBank M452303-M452307) and (CAS 262260, MorphoBank M452308-M452312), were collected by Barbod Safaei-Mahroo on 05 and 06 September 2016 from 23h30 to 01h00 in the Qara-Dagh Mountains (35°14.588’ N, 45°22.644’ E, elevation 1293 m), south west of Qara Dagh village, Sulaimani Province, Northeastern Iraq [kurdicus] |
| Diagnosis | Diagnosis: A medium-sized Hemidactylus with a snout-vent length of at least 70 mm; tubercles on all dorsal faces except of the upper arm; back with large, trihedral, sharply keeled tubercles with vertically striated surfaces; tubercles on limbs, neck, head and in the ventrolateral region small to moderately large, conical to keeled; precloacal pores in a chevron-shaped arrangement; no femoral pores; subcaudals enlarged; ventral scales imbricate and denticulate; enlarged scansors beneath fingers and toes, incompletely to fully divided save for the terminal scansor, which is entire. |
| Comment | Synonymy: this is indistinguishable from and likely a synonym of H. persicus (Hosseinzadeh et al. 2014). Hosseinzadeh et al. 2018 also synonymized H. kurdicus with H. romeshkanicus. Distribution: See map in SMID et al. 2014 for distribution in Iran. Not listed for Iraq by Mohammed et al. 2017 (RJH 24: 193). Abundance: only known from the type specimen (Meiri et al. 2017). Habitat (kurdicus): oak woodlands covered with grass, hiding inside cracks in the ground or moving among boulders. |
| Etymology | The name kurdicus is derived from the word “Kurd” which refers to the name for the Kurdish nation (Kurdistan Region), the location where the new species was found. |
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