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Microgecko persicus (NIKOLSKY, 1903)

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Higher TaxaGekkonidae, Gekkota, Sauria, Squamata (lizards: geckos)
SubspeciesMicrogecko persicus bakhtiari MINTON, ANDERSON & ANDERSON 1970
Microgecko persicus euphorbiacola MINTON, ANDERSON & ANDERSON 1970
Microgecko persicus persicus (NIKOLSKY 1903) 
Common NamesE: Persia Sand Gecko, Persian Dwarf Gecko 
SynonymAlsophylax persicus NIKOLSKY 1903: 95
Alsophylax persicus — WERNER 1936
Cyrtodactylus persicus — WETTSTEIN 1960: 190
Bunopus persicus — ANDERSON 1963: 474
Tropiocolotes persicus — MINTON, ANDERSON & ANDERSON 1970
Microgecko persicus — KLUGE 1993
Tropiocolotes persicus — FRYNTA et al. 1997
Tropiocolotes (Microgecko) persicus — RÖSLER 2000: 119
Microgecko persicus — SINDACO & JEREMČENKO 2008
Microgecko persicus — BAUER et al. 2013

Tropiocolotes persicus persicus (NIKOLSKY 1903)
Alsophylax persicus NIKOLSKY 1903: 95
Tropiocolotes persicus persicus — MINTON, ANDERSON & ANDERSON 1970: 348
Tropiocolotes (Microgecko) persicus persicus — SZCZERBAK & GOLUBEV 1986
Bunopus persicus — ANDERSON 1963
Microgecko persicus persicus — KLUGE 1993
Tropiocolotes (Microgecko) persicus persicus — RÖSLER 2000: 119

Tropiocolotes persicus bakhtiari MINTON, ANDERSON & ANDERSON 1970
Tropiocolotes persicus bakhtiari MINTON, ANDERSON & ANDERSON 1970: 351
Tropiocolotes (Microgecko) persicus bakhtiari — SZCZERBAK & GOLUBEV 1986
Microgecko persicus bakhtiari — KLUGE 1993
Tropiocolotes (Microgecko) persicus bakhtiari — RÖSLER 2000: 119
Tropiocolotes persicus bakhtiari — KARAMIANI et al. 2013
Microgecko persicus bakhtiari —

Tropiocolotes persicus euphorbiacola MINTON, ANDERSON & ANDERSON 1970
Tropiocolotes persicus euphorbiacola MINTON, ANDERSON & ANDERSON 1970: 354
Tropiocolotes (Microgecko) persicus euphorbiacola — SZCZERBAK & GOLUBEV 1986
Microgecko persicus euphorbiacola — KLUGE 1993
Tropiocolotes (Microgecko) persicus euphorbiacola — RÖSLER 2000: 119
Tropiocolotes persicus euphorbicola [sic] — KHAN 2003: 41
Microgecko persicus euphorbiacola — AGARWAL et al. 2014 
DistributionIran, Pakistan (Bela through Haleji, Hab River Valley, Nabisar Thar Desert), India

bakhtiari: Iran (W Zagros Mountains)

euphorbiacola: S Pakistan, India; Type locality: lower Pab Hills, Hab Chowki, Las Bela District, west Pakistan.

Type locality: Vicus Degak in Terra Dizak, Persia orient. [= Dehak, Sistan and Baluchestan Province, Iran, 28.99
N 60.54 E]  
Reproductionoviparous 
TypesHolotype: ZISP (ZIL) 10005
Holotype: CAS 93939, adult male, paratypes: CAS, UMMZ [euphorbiacola]
Holotype: CAS 86408 [bakhtiari] 
DiagnosisDiagnosis (persicus): Two pairs of postmentals; dark transverse bars of body narrow, less than half width of interspaces, and with distinct light margins; tail bars narrower than interspaces (Anderson 1999: 195).


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CommentDistribution: See map in SMID et al. 2014 and GHOLAMIFARD et al 2019: 436 (Fig. 1) for distribution in Iran.

Reference images: see Uetz et al. 2024 for high-resolution reference images for this species. 
EtymologyNamed after its distribution in Persia (now: Iran). 
References
  • Agarwal, I., Bauer, A.M., Jackman, T.R. & Karanth, P. 2014. Cryptic species and Miocene diversification of Palaearctic naked-toed geckos (Squamata: Gekkonidae) in the Indian dry zone. Zoologica Scripta DOI: 10.1111/zsc.12062 - get paper here
  • Agarwal, Ishan 2009. First Record of Tropiocolotes persicus euphorbiacola Minton, Anderson and Anderson 1970 (Sauria: Gekkonidae) from the Republic of India, with Notes on Its Habitat and Natural History. Russ. J. Herpetol. 16 (2): 83-87 - get paper here
  • ANANJEVA, NATALIA B.; KONSTANTIN D. MILTO, ANDREI V. BARABANOV, EVGENY A. GOLYNSKY 2020. An annotated type catalogue of amphibians and reptiles collected by Nikolay A. Zarudny in Iran and Middle Asia. Zootaxa 4722 (2): 101–128 - get paper here
  • Anderson, S.C. 1963. Amphibians and Reptiles from Iran. Proc. Cal. Acad. Sci. Ser. 4, 31(16): 417-498 - get paper here
  • Anderson, Steven C 1999. The lizards of Iran. Contributions to Herpetology Volume 15, Society for the Study of Amphibians and Reptiles, Saint Louis, Missouri: i-vii, 1-442 [review in Copeia 2000 (4): 1144] - 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
  • Frynta,D. et al. 1997. Results of the Czech biological expedition to Iran. Part 1. Notes on the distribution of amphibians and reptiles. Acta Soc. Zool. Bohem. 61: 3-17
  • GHOLAMIFARD, ALI; NASRULLAH RASTEGAR-POUYANI, ESKANDAR RASTEGAR-POUYANI 2019. A new species of the genus Microgecko Nikolsky, 1907 (Sauria: Gekkonidae) from the southern Zagros Mountains, Iran. Zootaxa 4648 (3): 435–454 - get paper here
  • GHOLAMIFARD, ALI; NASRULLAH RASTEGAR-POUYANI, ESKANDAR RASTEGAR-POUYANI, AZAR KHOSRAVANI, SEYYED SAEED HOSSEINIAN YOUSEFKHANI, HAMZEH ORAEI 2016. A new species of the genus Microgecko Nikolsky, 1907 (Sauria: Gekkonidae) from southern Iran. Zootaxa 4093 (1): 026–040 - get paper here
  • Kamali, Kamran 2020. A Field Guide to the Reptiles and Amphibians of Iran. Edition Chimaira, Frankfurt am Main, Germany (www.chimaira.de). 574 pp.
  • Karamiani, Rasoul; Ali Gholamifard, Nasrullah Rastegar-Pouyani 2013. Additional Specimens and Further Data on Bakhtiari Dwarf Gecko, Tropiocolotes persicus bakhtiari Minton, Anderson et Anderson, 1970 from Southwestern Iran. Russ. J. Herpetol. 20 (4): 271-275 - 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
  • Minton, S. A., Jr., S. C. Anderson, and J. A. Anderson. 1970. Remarks on some geckos from southwest Asia, with descriptions of three new forms and a key to the genus Tropiocolotes. Proc. Cal. Acad. Sci. 37: 333—362 - get paper here
  • Nikolsky, A. M. 1903. Sur trois nouvelles espèces de reptiles, recueillis par Mr. N. Zarudny dans la Perse orientale en 1901. [in Russian and Latin]. Annuaire Musée Zoologique de l’Académie Impériale des Sciences de St.-Pétersbourg, 8:95-98. - get paper here
  • Rajabizadeh, Mehdi; Nasrullah Rastegar-Pouyani, Hiva Faizi, Hamid Bostanchi 2010. New insights in the taxonomy of the Persian Sand Gecko, Tropiocolotes persicus (Nikolsky, 1903) (Sauria: Gekkonidae). Zoology in the Middle East 49: 55-62 - get paper here
  • RASTEGAR-POUYANI, NASRULLAH; HAJI GHOLI KAMI, MEHDI RAJABZADEH, SOHEILA SHAFIEI AND STEVEN CLEMENT ANDERSON 2008. Annotated Checklist of Amphibians and Reptiles of Iran. Iranian Journal of Animal Biosystematics 4 (1): 7-30
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  • ŠMÍD, JIŘÍ; JIŘÍ MORAVEC, PETR KODYM, LUKÁŠ KRATOCHVÍL, SEYYED SAEED HOSSEINIAN YOUSEFKHANI, ESKANDAR RASTEGAR-POUYANI & DANIEL FRYNTA 2014. Annotated checklist and distribution of the lizards of Iran. Zootaxa 3855 (1): 001–097 - get paper here
  • Torki F., Gharzi A., Nazari-Serenje F., Javanmardi S., Heidari N., Azizpourian A., Mahdavi S., and Mahdavi-Zarkhoni M. A. 2008. Geckos of the Genera Tropiocolotes and Asaccus in the Zagros Mountains, Iran. Gekko 5 (2): 31-43
  • TORKI, F 2010. Notes on the Taxonomy and Ecology of the Tropiocolotes persicus Complex (Reptilia: Gekkonidae) in Iran. [in German]. Sauria 32 (2): 42-48 - get paper here
  • Torki, F. 2020. A new species of dwarf gecko of the genus Microgecko (Squamata: Gekkonidae) from Iran. Sauria 42 (1): 41-54
  • Uetz, P.H.; Patel, M.; Gbadamosi, Z.; Nguyen, A.; Shoope, S. 2024. A Reference Database of Reptile Images. Taxonomy 4: 723–732 - get paper here
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