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Microgecko depressus (MINTON & ANDERSON, 1965)

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Higher TaxaGekkonidae, Gekkota, Sauria, Squamata (lizards: geckos)
Subspecies 
Common NamesE: Low Lying Gecko 
SynonymTropiocolotes depressus MINTON & ANDERSON 1965: 59
Tropiocolotes depressus — LEVITON & ANDERSON 1972
Tropiocolotes depressus — MINTON 1966
Tropiocolotes depressus — MINTON, ANDERSON & ANDERSON 1970
Tropiocolotes (Asiocolotes) depressus — GOLUBEV 1984
Tropiocolotes (Asiocolotes) depressus — SZCZERBAK & GOLUBEV 1986 (1996)
Asiocolotes depressus — KLUGE 1993
Tropiocolotes (Asiocolotes) depressus — RÖSLER 2000: 118
Tropiocolotes depressus — KHAN 2003
Microgecko depressus — SINDACO & JEREMČENKO 2008
Microgecko depressus — BAUER et al. 2013 
DistributionW Pakistan (Quetta, N Belutschistan = Baluchistan)

Type locality: “Kach (Quetta Division), West Pakistan on the abandoned rail line between Ziarat and Quetta at an altitude of about 6,500 feet”.  
Reproductionoviparous 
TypesHolotype: AMNH 93003, juvenile female, paratype: NMSZ 1964.58.1, adult male 
DiagnosisDiagnosis: Differs from all other members of the genus (1) in the presence of a pair of preanal pores in the adult male, (2) in a pattern of strongly defined dark bands without light edges and without tendency to blend into the ground color, and (3) in absence or marked reduction of postmentals. In all other members of the genus, males lack preanal pores; dorsal dark bands are absent, or tend to fade into the ground color or are margined by narrow light bands; a large pair of anterior postmentals is always present and a smaller posterior pair is nearly always present. Differs from helenae and allied forms in the absence of enlarged internasal and postrostral scales. The decided flattening of the head, body, and tail in depressus is evident when live or carefully fixed and stored specimens are compared. Unfortunately many museum specimens of these tiny, delicate lizards are shrunken or distorted, and the value of this character is vitiated (Minton & Anderson 1965). 
Comment 
References
  • 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
  • Golubev, M. L. 1984. The structure of the genus Tropiocolotes (Reptilia:, Gekkonidae). [In Russian]. Vestnik Zoologii, Kiev 1984 (6): 12
  • 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. 2003. Anmerkungen zur Morphologie, Verbreitung und den Habitatpräferenzen einiger pakistanischer Geckos. Sauria 25 (3): 35-47 [erratum in 25 (4): 27] - get paper here
  • Leviton, A. E., and S. C. Anderson. 1972. Description of a new species of Tropiocolotes (Reptilia: Gekkonidae) with a revised key to the genus. Occ. Pap. Cal. Acad. Sci. (96):1—7 - 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
  • Minton, S. A., Jr., and J. A. Anderson. 1965. A new dwarf gecko (Tropiocolotes) from Baluchistan. Herpetologica 21: 59—61 - 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
  • Rösler, H. 2000. Kommentierte Liste der rezent, subrezent und fossil bekannten Geckotaxa (Reptilia: Gekkonomorpha). Gekkota 2: 28-153
  • 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]
  • Sindaco, R. & Jeremcenko, V.K. 2008. The reptiles of the Western Palearctic. Edizioni Belvedere, Latina (Italy), 579 pp. - 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
 
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