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Teratoscincus rustamowi SZCZERBAK, 1979

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Higher TaxaSphaerodactylidae, Gekkota, Sauria, Squamata (lizards: geckos)
Subspecies 
Common Names 
SynonymTeratoscincus scincus rustamowi SZCZERBAK 1979: 137
Teratoscincus scincus rustamowi — KLUGE 1993
Teratoscincus scincus rustamowi — SZCZERBAK & GOLUBEV 1996: 38
Teratoscincus rustamowi — DE LISLE et al. 2013: 263
Teratoscincus rustamowi — NAZAROV et al. 2017
Teratoscincus scincus rustamowi — BONDARENKO 2020 
DistributionUzbekistan (Fergana Valley, the deserts of the former USSR];

Type locality: Uzbekistan, Ferghana Valley, central Ferghana [Fergana] sand dunes, between Quqand and Djumashuyi.  
Reproductionoviparous 
TypesHolotype: NMNHU (formerly ZIK) Re No. 9, collected on June 8, 1976, by N. N. Shcherbak (= Szczerbak), M. N. Golubev and E. M. Pisanets 
DiagnosisDiagnosis (rustamowi): Medium-sized gecko with SVLmax up to 81 mm (less than SVLmax of T. scincus sensu stricto — 90.2 mm). Dorsal surface of body covered by rows of enlarged imbricate juxtaposed scales, in 26 – 36 longitudinal rows around the midbody and 32 – 41 transverse rows counted along the body. Enlarged scales reach occipital region. Head large and well-defined from body, covered by small granular scales.
Nostril in contact with rostral, enlarged supranasal, two large nasals and first supralabial. Usually no additional subnasal scales between supralabial and naris; if such supernumerary scales present their diameter less or equal to half of naris diameter (vs. additional subnasal scales always present, their diameter about the same size as naris in T. scincus sensu stricto). Fingers and toes with fringed edges formed by large elongated triangle scales. Claws strongly compressed laterally. Small imbricate scales covering the lower surface of digits, with only a few transversely widened scales at the distal part of fingers and toes. Ventral scales of approximately the same size as dorsals. No precloacal and femoral pores. Moderate hemipenial swellings; single precloacal spur on the each side at the tail basis. Tail rounded in cross section (SVLGTailL ratio about 1.55 in T. rustamowi vs. 1.4 for T. scincus sensu stricto), tail dorsal surface covered by 11 – 18 enlarged nail-shaped scales. We failed to find any significant differences between males and females of T. rustamowi in all examined metric and meristic characters (vs. pronounced sexual dimorphism revealed for the several morphological characters in T. scincus sensu stricto: HES; OrbD; LS; FemurL; LD4A; LD4P and SVLGHES ratio) [from Nazarov et al. 2017]


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EtymologyNamed after “famous [Russian ?] zoologist A.K. Rustamov.” 
References
  • Bondarenko D. A. 2020. Community of Reptiles in the Sandy Habitats of the Ferghana Valley (Uzbekistan) and the Endemic Species Conservation Problem. Current Studies in Herpetology 20 (1-2): 3 - get paper here
  • Kluge A G 1993. Gekkonoid Lizard Taxonomy. International Gecko Society, San Diego, 245 pp.
  • Lisle, H.F. de; Nazarov, R.A.; Raw, L.R.G. & Grathwohl, J. 2013. Gekkota: a catalogue of recent species. [type catalogue] Privately published, 387 pp.
  • Nazarov, Roman A.;Mehdi Radjabizadeh,Nikolay A. Poyarkov, Jr.,Natalia B. Ananjeva,Daniel A. Melnikov,Eskandar Rastegar-Pouyani 2017. A New Species of Frog-Eyed Gecko, Genus Teratoscincus Strauch, 1863 (Squamata: Sauria: Sphaerodactylidae), from Central Iran. Russ. J. Herpetol. 24 (4): 291-310 - 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]
  • Szczerbak, N.N. 1979. A new subspecies of plate-tailed gecko (Teratoscincus scincus rustamowi ssp. n., Sauria, Reptilia) from Uzbekistan and systematics of the species. [in Russian] Protection of Turkmenistan Nature, 1979:129-138 - get paper here
  • Zokirova, G. M., & Yuldashev, S. B. 2024. SPECIES COMPOSITION OF REPTILIA IN FERGANA VALLEY IN NEED OF PROTECTION. European Journal of Agricultural and Rural Education - get paper here
 
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