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Cyrtopodion agamuroides (Nikolsky, 1900) LECTOTYPE. ZIL 9327, designated by Szczerbak & Golubev (1986). TYPE LOCALITY. Originally Neizar, Sistan, and Duz-Abad and Pendsch-Sara, Kerman Prov., Iran; restricted to Pensareh [= Pendsch-Sara], E Kerman Prov., Iran by Szczerbak & Golubev (1986). DISTRIBUTION. Iran, Afghanistan, Pakistan. DISTRIBUTION IN IRAN. Fig. 33. S Iran south of the 31.5° latitude. The record from Khorasan Razavi Prov. by Hosseinian Yousefkhani et al. (2012a) was a misidentified Tenuidactylus longipes (Rajabizadeh, in litt.). HABITAT. Known to climb ruins of earthen buildings in habitats with sandy and clayey soils; reported active also during the day (Szczerbak & Golubev 1996). REMARKS. Cyrtopodion agamuroides was found to be syntopic with ecologically similar C. sistanense (Nazarov & Rajabizadeh 2007). By the time of the phylogenetic analysis published by Červenka et al. (2008), C. agamuroides was paraphyletic with respect to C. gastropholis and might in fact be a complex of more species. Since then, two new species from to the agamuroides -group have been described (Nazarov et al. 2009; Ahmadzadeh et al. 2011). No additional phylogenetic study comprising these taxa was performed so the relationships of the above species remain unknown. REFERENCES. Szczerbak & Golubev (1986, 1996); Anderson (1999); Nazarov & Rajabizadeh (2007); Červenka et al. (2008, 2010); Ahmadzadeh et al. (2011)., Published as part of Šmíd, Jiří, Moravec, Jiří, Kodym, Petr, Kratochvíl, Lukáš, Yousefkhani, Seyyed Saeed Hosseinian, Rastegar-Pouyani, Eskandar & Frynta, Daniel, 2014, Annotated checklist and distribution of the lizards of Iran, pp. 1-97 in Zootaxa 3855 (1) on pages 16-17, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3855.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/4929701, {"references":["Nikolsky, A. M. (1900) Reptiles, amphibies et poissons, recueillis pendant le voyage de Mr. N. A. Zaroudny en 1898 dans la Perse. Annuaire Musee Zoologique de l'Academie Imperiale des Sciences de St. - Petersbourg, 4,375 - 417.","Szczerbak, N. N. & Golubev, M. L. (1986) The Gecko Fauna of the USSR and Adjacent Regions. Nauka Dymka, Kiev, 232 pp., 8 pls. [in Russian]","Hosseinian Yousefkhani, S. S., Rastegar-Pouyani, N. & Rastegar-Pouyani, E. (2012 a) First record of Cyrtopodion agamuroides (Nikolsky, 1900) (Sauria: Gekkonidae) from Khorasan Razavi province, north-eastern Iran. Herpetology Notes, 5, 93 - 94.","Szczerbak, N. N. & Golubev, M. L. (1996) Gecko fauna of the USSR and contiguous regions. Society for the Study of Amphibians and Reptiles, Oxfor, Ohio, 233 pp.","Nazarov, R. A. & Rajabizadeh, M. (2007) A new species of angular-toed gecko of the genus Cyrtopodion (Squamata: Sauria: Gekkonidae) from south-east Iran (Sistan-Baluchistan province). Russian Journal of Herpetology, 14, 137 - 144.","Cervenka, J., Kratochvil, L. & Frynta, D. (2008) Phylogeny and taxonomy of the Middle Eastern geckos of the genus Cyrtopodion and their selected relatives. Zootaxa, 1931, 25 - 36.","Nazarov, R. A., Ananjeva, N. & Radjabizadeh, M. (2009) Two new species of angular-toed geckoes (Squamata: Gekkonidae) from south Iran. Russian Journal of Herpetology, 16, 311 - 324.","Ahmadzadeh, F., Flecks, M., Torki, F. & Bohme, W. (2011) A new species of angular-toed gecko, genus Cyrtopodion (Squamata: Gekkonidae), from southern Iran. Zootaxa, 2924, 22 - 32.","Anderson, S. C. (1999) The lizards of Iran. Society for the Study of Amphibians and Reptiles, Oxford, Ohio, 442 pp."]}

Pseudoceramodactylus khobarensis Haas, 1957 HOLOTYPE. CAS 84458. TYPE LOCALITY. Al Khobar, Eastern Region, Saudi Arabia. DISTRIBUTION. Regions around the Persian Gulf (Kuwait, Saudi Arabia, Bahrain, UAE, Oman, Iran). DISTRIBUTION IN IRAN. Fig. 59. Qeshm Island in the Strait of Hormuz (Dakhteh et al. 2007). HABITAT. A typical flatland dweller living on sandy or compact saline soils with widely spaced bushes. REFERENCES. Haas (1957); Arnold (1980a); Dakhteh et al. (2007)., Published as part of Šmíd, Jiří, Moravec, Jiří, Kodym, Petr, Kratochvíl, Lukáš, Yousefkhani, Seyyed Saeed Hosseinian, Rastegar-Pouyani, Eskandar & Frynta, Daniel, 2014, Annotated checklist and distribution of the lizards of Iran, pp. 1-97 in Zootaxa 3855 (1) on page 24, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3855.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/4929701, {"references":["Haas, G. (1957) Some amphibians and reptiles from Arabia. Proceedings of the California Academy of Sciences, 29, 47 - 86.","Dakhteh, S. M. H., Kami, H. G. & Anderson, S. C. (2007) Stenodactylus khobarensis (Haas, 1957): an addition to the Iranian herpetofauna (Reptilia: Squamata: Gekkonidae). Russian Journal of Herpetology, 14, 229 - 231.","Arnold, E. N. (1980 a) Reptiles of Saudi Arabia. A review of the lizard genus Stenodactylus (Reptilia: Gekkonidae). Fauna of Saudi Arabia, 2, 368 - 404."]}

Microgecko Nikolsky, 1907 The genus Microgecko contains four species and is restricted to Iran, Pakistan, and India. Its former rank under Tropiocolotes has been intensely debated in the herpetological literature (Anderson 1961, 1999; Minton & Anderson 1965; Guibé 1966a; Minton et al. 1970; Kluge 1983; Leviton et al. 1992; Szczerbak & Golubev 1996), but recent phylogenetic studies clearly show the distinctness of these genera (Bauer et al. 2013; Pyron et al. 2013)., Published as part of Šmíd, Jiří, Moravec, Jiří, Kodym, Petr, Kratochvíl, Lukáš, Yousefkhani, Seyyed Saeed Hosseinian, Rastegar-Pouyani, Eskandar & Frynta, Daniel, 2014, Annotated checklist and distribution of the lizards of Iran, pp. 1-97 in Zootaxa 3855 (1) on page 23, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3855.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/4929701, {"references":["Nikolsky, A. M. (1907) Reptiles and Amphibians collected by N. A. Zarudny in Persia 1903 - 1904 [in Russian]. Annuaire Musee Zoologique de l'Academie Imperiale des Sciences de St. - Petersbourg, 10, 260 - 301.","Anderson, S. C. (1961) A note on the synonymy of Microgecko Nikolsky with Tropiocolotes Peters. The Wasmann Journal of Biology, 19, 287 - 289.","Anderson, S. C. (1999) The lizards of Iran. Society for the Study of Amphibians and Reptiles, Oxford, Ohio, 442 pp.","Minton, S. A. & Anderson, J. A. (1965) A new dwarf gecko (Tropiocolotes) from Baluchistan. Herpetologica, 21, 59 - 61.","Guibe, J. (1966 a) Contribution a l'etude des genres Microgecko Nikolsky et Tropiocolotes Peters. Bulletin du Museum national d'Histoire naturelle, Paris, 38, 337 - 346.","Minton, S. A., Anderson, S. C. & Anderson, J. A. (1970) Remarks on some geckos from southwest Asia, with descriptions of three new forms and a key to the genus Tropiocolotes. Proceedings of the California Academy of Sciences, 37, 333 - 362.","Kluge, A. G. (1983) Cladistic relationships among Gekkonid lizards. Copeia, 1983, 465 - 475. http: // dx. doi. org / 10.2307 / 1444392","Leviton, A. E., Anderson, S. C., Adler, K. & Minton, S. A. (1992) Handbook to Middle East Amphibians and Reptiles. Society for the Study of Amphibians and Reptiles, Oxford, Ohio, 252 pp. + 233 colour plates. http: // dx. doi. org / 10.1163 / 156853893 x 00372","Szczerbak, N. N. & Golubev, M. L. (1996) Gecko fauna of the USSR and contiguous regions. Society for the Study of Amphibians and Reptiles, Oxfor, Ohio, 233 pp.","Bauer, A. M., Masroor, R., Titus-Mcquillan, J., Heinicke, M. P., Daza, J. D. & Jackman, T. R. (2013) A preliminary phylogeny of the Palearctic naked-toed geckos (Reptilia: Squamata: Gekkonidae) with taxonomic implications. Zootaxa, 3599 (4), 301 - 324. http: // dx. doi. org / 10.11646 / zootaxa. 3599.4.1","Pyron, R., Burbrink, F. & Wiens, J. (2013) A phylogeny and revised classification of Squamata, including 4161 species of lizards and snakes. BMC Evolutionary Biology, 13, 93. http: // dx. doi. org / 10.1186 / 1471 - 2148 - 13 - 93"]}

Cyrtopodion Fitzinger, 1843 A relatively species-rich genus (26 species; Uetz 2013) that previously encompassed also members of Mediodactylus and Tenuidactylus, in some studies treated as subgenera but currently recognized as distinct (see below). The Iranian species of Cyrtopodion (sensu stricto) were on the basis of morphological differentiation divided into two groups: the agamuroides group and the scabrum group (Szczerbak & Golubev 1986; Anderson 1999). The agamuroides group currently contains five species: C. agamuroides, C. gastropholis, C. golubevi, C. kiabii, and C. persepolense; four species are known to belong to the scabrum group: C. brevipes, C. kachhense, C. scabrum, and C. sistanense (Nazarov & Rajabizadeh 2007; Bauer et al. 2013). Cyrtopodion hormozganum was recognized as an intermediate form between the two groups (Nazarov et al. 2012), and the assignment of C. kirmanense is unknown., Published as part of Šmíd, Jiří, Moravec, Jiří, Kodym, Petr, Kratochvíl, Lukáš, Yousefkhani, Seyyed Saeed Hosseinian, Rastegar-Pouyani, Eskandar & Frynta, Daniel, 2014, Annotated checklist and distribution of the lizards of Iran, pp. 1-97 in Zootaxa 3855 (1) on page 16, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3855.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/4929701, {"references":["Uetz, P. (2013) The Reptile database. Available from: http: // www. reptile-database. org / (accessed 8 July 2014)","Szczerbak, N. N. & Golubev, M. L. (1986) The Gecko Fauna of the USSR and Adjacent Regions. Nauka Dymka, Kiev, 232 pp., 8 pls. [in Russian]","Anderson, S. C. (1999) The lizards of Iran. Society for the Study of Amphibians and Reptiles, Oxford, Ohio, 442 pp.","Nazarov, R. A. & Rajabizadeh, M. (2007) A new species of angular-toed gecko of the genus Cyrtopodion (Squamata: Sauria: Gekkonidae) from south-east Iran (Sistan-Baluchistan province). Russian Journal of Herpetology, 14, 137 - 144.","Bauer, A. M., Masroor, R., Titus-Mcquillan, J., Heinicke, M. P., Daza, J. D. & Jackman, T. R. (2013) A preliminary phylogeny of the Palearctic naked-toed geckos (Reptilia: Squamata: Gekkonidae) with taxonomic implications. Zootaxa, 3599 (4), 301 - 324. http: // dx. doi. org / 10.11646 / zootaxa. 3599.4.1","Nazarov, R., Bondarenko, D. A. & Radjabizadeh, M. (2012) A new species of thin-toed geckos Cyrtopodion sensu lato (Squamata: Sauria: Gekkonidae) from Hormozgan province, South Iran. Russian Journal of Herpetology, 19, 292 - 298."]}

Cyrtopodion scabrum (Heyden, 1827) LECTOTYPE. SMF 8180, designated by Mertens (1967). TYPE LOCALITY. Tor, Sinai, Egypt and Abyssinian [= Eritrean] coast; restricted to Tor by Mertens (1967). DISTRIBUTION. West from Egypt along the Red Sea and the Gulf of Aden, Arabian Peninsula, Iraq, Syria, S Turkey, Iran, Afghanistan, Pakistan, NW India. DISTRIBUTION IN IRAN. Fig. 42. Most of Iran including the Mesopotamian Plain in the west through the Zagros and the central Plateau continuously to Afghanistan and Pakistan in the east. A recent record from the logistically important city of Rasht, Gilan Prov. could be explained as a range expansion facilitated by human mediated dispersal (Rastegar-Pouyani et al. 2010a). HABITAT. A typical synanthropic gecko with strong affinity to human habitations. In Iran found on walls of inhabited and abandoned buildings, brick fences, garden walls or in dumping grounds; also dry scrubland and stony hillsides where it seeks refuge in crevices and fissures (Anderson 1999; Khan 2006). REMARKS. Based on available phylogenetic studies there are apparently some yet undescribed species closely related to C. scabrum (Červenka et al. 2008; Bauer et al. 2013). REFERENCES. Anderson (1999); Červenka et al. (2008, 2010); Fathinia et al. (2009); Rastegar-Pouyani et al. (2010a); Bauer et al. (2013)., Published as part of Šmíd, Jiří, Moravec, Jiří, Kodym, Petr, Kratochvíl, Lukáš, Yousefkhani, Seyyed Saeed Hosseinian, Rastegar-Pouyani, Eskandar & Frynta, Daniel, 2014, Annotated checklist and distribution of the lizards of Iran, pp. 1-97 in Zootaxa 3855 (1) on pages 18-19, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3855.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/4929701, {"references":["Heyden, C. H. G. (1827) Reptilien. In: Ruppell, E. (Ed.), Atlas zu der Reise im nordlichen Africa von Eduard Ruppell. Heinrich Ludwig Bronner, Frankfurt am Main, pp. 1 - 24.","Mertens, R. (1967) Die herpetologische Sektion des Natur-Museums und Forschungs-Institutes Senckenberg in Frankfurt a. M. nebst einem Verzeichnis ihrer Typen. Senckenbergiana Biologica, 48, 1 - 106.","Rastegar-Pouyani, N., Khosravani, A. & Oraie, H. (2010 a) A new record of Cyrtopodion scabrum (Heyden, 1827) from the Caspian Sea Coastal Region, Guilan Province, Northern Iran. Herpetology Notes, 3, 61 - 63.","Anderson, S. C. (1999) The lizards of Iran. Society for the Study of Amphibians and Reptiles, Oxford, Ohio, 442 pp.","Khan, M. S. (2006) Amphibians and Reptiles of Pakistan. Krieger Publishing Company, Malabar, Florida, 311 pp.","Cervenka, J., Kratochvil, L. & Frynta, D. (2008) Phylogeny and taxonomy of the Middle Eastern geckos of the genus Cyrtopodion and their selected relatives. Zootaxa, 1931, 25 - 36.","Bauer, A. M., Masroor, R., Titus-Mcquillan, J., Heinicke, M. P., Daza, J. D. & Jackman, T. R. (2013) A preliminary phylogeny of the Palearctic naked-toed geckos (Reptilia: Squamata: Gekkonidae) with taxonomic implications. Zootaxa, 3599 (4), 301 - 324. http: // dx. doi. org / 10.11646 / zootaxa. 3599.4.1","Fathinia, B., Rastegar-Pouyani, N., Sampour, M., Bahrami, A. M. & Jaafari, G. (2009) The lizard fauna of the Ilam province, southwestern Iran. Iranian Journal of Animal Biosystematics, 5, 65 - 79."]}

Cyrtopodion persepolense Nazarov, Ananjeva & Radjabizadeh, 2009 HOLOTYPE. ZMMU R-12626. TYPE LOCALITY. Takht-e-Jamshid [Persepolis], 60 km NE from Shiraz, Fars Prov., Iran. DISTRIBUTION. Endemic to Iran. DISTRIBUTION IN IRAN. Fig. 41. Known only from the type locality. HABITAT. Stony to rocky habitat where it inhabits vertical surfaces with a plenty of shelters (Nazarov et al. 2009). REFERENCES. Nazarov et al. (2009); Bauer et al. (2013)., Published as part of Šmíd, Jiří, Moravec, Jiří, Kodym, Petr, Kratochvíl, Lukáš, Yousefkhani, Seyyed Saeed Hosseinian, Rastegar-Pouyani, Eskandar & Frynta, Daniel, 2014, Annotated checklist and distribution of the lizards of Iran, pp. 1-97 in Zootaxa 3855 (1) on page 18, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3855.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/4929701, {"references":["Nazarov, R. A., Ananjeva, N. & Radjabizadeh, M. (2009) Two new species of angular-toed geckoes (Squamata: Gekkonidae) from south Iran. Russian Journal of Herpetology, 16, 311 - 324.","Bauer, A. M., Masroor, R., Titus-Mcquillan, J., Heinicke, M. P., Daza, J. D. & Jackman, T. R. (2013) A preliminary phylogeny of the Palearctic naked-toed geckos (Reptilia: Squamata: Gekkonidae) with taxonomic implications. Zootaxa, 3599 (4), 301 - 324. http: // dx. doi. org / 10.11646 / zootaxa. 3599.4.1"]}

Rhinogekko misonnei de Witte, 1973 HOLOTYPE. IRSNB 2514. TYPE LOCALITY. Dasht-e Lut (30° 13' N, 58° 47' E), Kerman Prov., Iran. DISTRIBUTION. Iran and Pakistan. DISTRIBUTION IN IRAN. Fig. 61. Known only from the Dasht-e Lut desert from South Khorasan and Kerman Prov. HABITAT. The types were caught in an area devoid of vegetation. Moradi et al. (2011) collected three specimens on gravel plains with sparse vegetation dominated by Seidlitzia rosmarinus and Tamarix sp. REMARKS. Anderson (1999) found R. misonnei doubtfully distinct from R. femoralis. REFERENCES. de Witte (1973, 1980); Anderson (1999); Moradi et al. (2011)., Published as part of Šmíd, Jiří, Moravec, Jiří, Kodym, Petr, Kratochvíl, Lukáš, Yousefkhani, Seyyed Saeed Hosseinian, Rastegar-Pouyani, Eskandar & Frynta, Daniel, 2014, Annotated checklist and distribution of the lizards of Iran, pp. 1-97 in Zootaxa 3855 (1) on page 25, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3855.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/4929701, {"references":["de Witte, G. F. (1973) Description d'un Gekkonidae nouveau de l'Iran. Bulletin de l'Institut Royale des Sciences naturelles de Belgique, 49, 1 - 6.","Anderson, S. C. (1999) The lizards of Iran. Society for the Study of Amphibians and Reptiles, Oxford, Ohio, 442 pp.","de Witte, G. F. (1980) Note relative a Rhinogekko misonnei de Witte et Agamura femoralis M. Smith: (Reptilia Sauria). Bulletin de l'Institut Royale des Sciences naturelles de Belgique, 52, 1 - 3."]}

Stenodactylus Fitzinger, 1826 Stenodactylus affinis (Murray, 1884) SYNTYPES. BMNH 1946.8.23.33 (ex. BMNH 84.7.25.1), BMNH 1946.8.23.60 (ex. BMNH 87.9.22.2). TYPE LOCALITY. Tanjistan, Persia [Tangestan, Bushehr Prov., Iran]. DISTRIBUTION. Iraq, Kuwait, Iran. DISTRIBUTION IN IRAN. Fig. 62. Restricted to the Mesopotamian Plain (Ilam, Khuzestan Prov.) and areas along the Persian Gulf coast (Bushehr and Hormozgan Prov.). HABITAT. The Iranian specimens were caught in “... a gravelled site on gypsum foothills with Alhagi camelorum vegetation” (Fathinia et al. 2009), under stones in a cultivated field and on an unpaved road (Anderson 1999). REMARKS. The closest relatives of S. affinis are S. grandiceps from the Levant and S. slevini from the Arabian Peninsula (Metallinou et al. 2012). REFERENCES. Arnold (1980a); Anderson (1999); Torki (2010d); Metallinou et al. (2012); Hosseinian Yousefkhani et al. (2013b); Kamali (2013a)., Published as part of Šmíd, Jiří, Moravec, Jiří, Kodym, Petr, Kratochvíl, Lukáš, Yousefkhani, Seyyed Saeed Hosseinian, Rastegar-Pouyani, Eskandar & Frynta, Daniel, 2014, Annotated checklist and distribution of the lizards of Iran, pp. 1-97 in Zootaxa 3855 (1) on page 25, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3855.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/4929701, {"references":["Murray, J. A. (1884) Addition to the present knowledge of the vertebrate zoology of Persia. Annals and Magazine of Natural History, 14, 97 - 106. http: // dx. doi. org / 10.1080 / 00222938409459776","Fathinia, B., Rastegar-Pouyani, N., Sampour, M., Bahrami, A. M. & Jaafari, G. (2009) The lizard fauna of the Ilam province, southwestern Iran. Iranian Journal of Animal Biosystematics, 5, 65 - 79.","Anderson, S. C. (1999) The lizards of Iran. Society for the Study of Amphibians and Reptiles, Oxford, Ohio, 442 pp.","Metallinou, M., Arnold, E. N., Crochet, P. A., Geniez, P., Brito, J. C., Lymberakis, P., Baha El Din, S., Sindaco, R., Robinson, M. & Carranza, S. (2012) Conquering the Sahara and Arabian deserts: systematics and biogeography of Stenodactylus geckos (Reptilia: Gekkonidae). BMC Evolutionary Biology, 12, 258. http: // dx. doi. org / 10.1186 / 1471 - 2148 - 12 - 258","Arnold, E. N. (1980 a) Reptiles of Saudi Arabia. A review of the lizard genus Stenodactylus (Reptilia: Gekkonidae). Fauna of Saudi Arabia, 2, 368 - 404.","Torki, F. (2010 d) Notes on sexual size dimorphism in the Iranian Short-fingered Gecko Stenodactylus affinis (Reptilia, Gekkonidae). Herpetological Bulletin, 113, 30 - 33.","Kamali, K. (2013 a) Geographic distribution: Stenodactylus affinis (Iranian Short-fingered Gecko). Herpetological Review, 44, 274."]}

Cyrtopodion brevipes (Blanford, 1874) HOLOTYPE. ZSI 3465. TYPE LOCALITY. Originally Gedrosia, Baluchistan; restricted to Aptan near Bampur, Persian Baluchistan [= Sistan and Baluchistan Prov.] by Annandale (1913). DISTRIBUTION. Endemic to Iran. DISTRIBUTION IN IRAN. Fig. 34. So far known with certainty only from the region of the type locality in Sistan and Baluchistan Prov. and eastern Hormozgan Prov. (CUP collection: CUP\REPT\IRA\875). Murray (1884) provided two localities from the vicinity of Bushehr, but Anderson (1999) was sceptical of Murray’s identifications and considered the presence of this species in Bushehr Prov. unlikely. HABITAT. Virtually nothing is known about this species’ preferred habitat. The only available information is from where the types were collected—an open sandy plain with scattered vegetation (Anderson 1999). REFERENCES. Murray (1884); Annandale (1913); Anderson (1999)., Published as part of Šmíd, Jiří, Moravec, Jiří, Kodym, Petr, Kratochvíl, Lukáš, Yousefkhani, Seyyed Saeed Hosseinian, Rastegar-Pouyani, Eskandar & Frynta, Daniel, 2014, Annotated checklist and distribution of the lizards of Iran, pp. 1-97 in Zootaxa 3855 (1) on page 17, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3855.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/4929701, {"references":["Annandale, N. (1913) The Indian geckos of the genus Gymnodactylus. Records of the Indian Museum, Calcutta, 9, 309 - 326.","Murray, J. A. (1884) Addition to the present knowledge of the vertebrate zoology of Persia. Annals and Magazine of Natural History, 14, 97 - 106. http: // dx. doi. org / 10.1080 / 00222938409459776","Anderson, S. C. (1999) The lizards of Iran. Society for the Study of Amphibians and Reptiles, Oxford, Ohio, 442 pp."]}

Cyrtopodion kiabii Ahmadzadeh, Flecks, Torki & Böhme, 2011 HOLOTYPE. ZFMK 91834. TYPE LOCALITY. 5 km SW of Nayband village at a distance of approx. 300 m to coast of Persian Gulf, Bushehr Prov., Iran. DISTRIBUTION. Endemic to Iran. DISTRIBUTION IN IRAN. Fig. 39. Coastal areas of Bushehr Prov. HABITAT. The types were found in two abandoned buildings in a cliffy area approximately 100 m from the Persian Gulf coast. REFERENCES. Ahmadzadeh et al. (2011).

Mediodactylus heteropholis (Minton, Anderson & Anderson, 1970) HOLOTYPE. FMNH 74549. TYPE LOCALITY. Pirman Hotel, Salahedin, Salahedin Nahiya, Erbil Governorate, Iraq. DISTRIBUTION. Iraq and Iran. DISTRIBUTION IN IRAN. Fig. 50. Only four known localities in Ilam, Kermanshah, and Lorestan Prov. HABITAT. In Iran collected in semihumid Zagrosian oak forest, the types from Iraq were collected on the floor of a hotel porch. REMARKS. Červenka et al. (2010) placed the genus Carinatogecko, which formerly contained C. aspratilis and C. heteropholis, in the synonymy of Mediodactylus. This taxonomic action, however, has not been accepted by many authors (Fathinia et al. 2011a, c; Karamiani & Rastegar-Pouyani 2011; Sadeghi & Torki 2011; Torki 2011, 2012). Torki (2011) suggested that the specimen included by Červenka et al. (2010) and determined as Carinatogecko cf. heteropholis might by a misidentified specimen of M. heterocercum. If Torki’s assumption is correct, the validity of Carinatogecko might be maintained at least until more species of this genus are sequenced. Nevertheless, here we agree with Bauer et al. (2013) and follow the concept of Červenka et al. (2010). REFERENCES. Anderson (1999); Červenka et al. (2010); Fathinia et al. (2011c); Torki (2011, 2012); Bauer et al. (2013)., Published as part of Šmíd, Jiří, Moravec, Jiří, Kodym, Petr, Kratochvíl, Lukáš, Yousefkhani, Seyyed Saeed Hosseinian, Rastegar-Pouyani, Eskandar & Frynta, Daniel, 2014, Annotated checklist and distribution of the lizards of Iran, pp. 1-97 in Zootaxa 3855 (1) on page 21, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3855.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/4929701, {"references":["Minton, S. A., Anderson, S. C. & Anderson, J. A. (1970) Remarks on some geckos from southwest Asia, with descriptions of three new forms and a key to the genus Tropiocolotes. Proceedings of the California Academy of Sciences, 37, 333 - 362.","Fathinia, B., Karamiani, R., Darvishnia, H., Heidari, N. & Rastegar-Pouyani, N. (2011 a) A new species of Carinatogecko (Sauria: Gekkonidae) from Ilam Province, western Iran. Amphibian and Reptile Conservation, 5, 61 - 74.","Rastegar-Pouyani, N., Karamiani, R., Oraei, H., Khosrawani, A. & Rastegar-Pouyani, E. (2011 b) A New Subspecies of Darevskia raddei (Boettger, 1892) (Sauria: Lacertidae) from the West Azerbaijan Province, Iran. Asian Herpetological Research, 2, 216 - 222. http: // dx. doi. org / 10.3724 / sp. j. 1245.2011.00216","Sadeghi, R. & Torki, F. (2011) Notes on the natural history and distribution of Carinatogecko stevenandersoni Torki, 2011. Amphibian and Reptile Conservation, 5, 34 - 36.","Bauer, A. M., Masroor, R., Titus-Mcquillan, J., Heinicke, M. P., Daza, J. D. & Jackman, T. R. (2013) A preliminary phylogeny of the Palearctic naked-toed geckos (Reptilia: Squamata: Gekkonidae) with taxonomic implications. Zootaxa, 3599 (4), 301 - 324. http: // dx. doi. org / 10.11646 / zootaxa. 3599.4.1","Anderson, S. C. (1999) The lizards of Iran. Society for the Study of Amphibians and Reptiles, Oxford, Ohio, 442 pp.","Fathinia, B., Rastegar-Pouyani, N. & Mohamadi, H. (2011 c) Sexual dimorphism in Carinatogecko heteropholis (Minton, Anderson, and Anderson, 1970) (Sauria: Gekkonidae) from Ilam Province, western Iran. Amphibian and Reptile Conservation, 5, 47 - 53."]}

Rhinogekko de Witte, 1973 A very little known genus containing only two species with the distribution restricted to Iran and Pakistan. Szczerbak & Golubev (1986) placed it in the synonymy of Agamura. Contrary to them, Anderson (1999) did not find any of the representatives closely related to A. persica and considered the genus Rhinogekko justified. Most authors misspell the genus name to Rhinogecko [sic] (Khan 2002, 2004; Rastegar-Pouyani et al. 2008; Sindaco & Jeremčenko 2008; Moradi et al. 2011; Masroor 2012; Bauer et al. 2013). Nevertheless, the name is derived from the etymon Gekko and must be spelled Rhinogekko as given in the original description., Published as part of Šmíd, Jiří, Moravec, Jiří, Kodym, Petr, Kratochvíl, Lukáš, Yousefkhani, Seyyed Saeed Hosseinian, Rastegar-Pouyani, Eskandar & Frynta, Daniel, 2014, Annotated checklist and distribution of the lizards of Iran, pp. 1-97 in Zootaxa 3855 (1) on page 24, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3855.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/4929701, {"references":["de Witte, G. F. (1973) Description d'un Gekkonidae nouveau de l'Iran. Bulletin de l'Institut Royale des Sciences naturelles de Belgique, 49, 1 - 6.","Szczerbak, N. N. & Golubev, M. L. (1986) The Gecko Fauna of the USSR and Adjacent Regions. Nauka Dymka, Kiev, 232 pp., 8 pls. [in Russian]","Anderson, S. C. (1999) The lizards of Iran. Society for the Study of Amphibians and Reptiles, Oxford, Ohio, 442 pp.","Khan, M. S. (2002) Key and checklist to the lizards of Pakistan. Herpetozoa, 15, 99 - 119.","Khan, M. S. (2004) Annotated checklist of Amphibians and Reptiles of Pakistan. Asiatic Herpetological Research, 10, 191 - 201.","Rastegar-Pouyani, N., Kami, H. G., Rajabzadeh, M., Shafiei, S. & Anderson, S. C. (2008) Annotated checklist of Amphibians and Reptiles of Iran. Iranian Journal of Animal Biosystematics, 4, 43 - 66.","Sindaco, R. & Jeremcenko, V. K. (2008) The reptiles of the Western Palearctic. 1. Annotated checklist and distributional atlas of the turtles, crocodiles, amphisbaenians and lizards of Europe, North Africa, Middle East and Central Asia. Monografie della Societas Herpetologica Italica, Edizioni Belvedere, 579 pp.","Masroor, R. (2012) A contribution to the Herpetology of Northern Pakistan. Society for the Study of Amphibians and Reptiles, Oxford, Ohio, 217 pp.","Bauer, A. M., Masroor, R., Titus-Mcquillan, J., Heinicke, M. P., Daza, J. D. & Jackman, T. R. (2013) A preliminary phylogeny of the Palearctic naked-toed geckos (Reptilia: Squamata: Gekkonidae) with taxonomic implications. Zootaxa, 3599 (4), 301 - 324. http: // dx. doi. org / 10.11646 / zootaxa. 3599.4.1"]}

Hemidactylus robustus Heyden, 1827 LECTOTYPE. SMF 8720, designated by Mertens (1967). TYPE LOCALITY. Egypten, Arabien, und Abysinien [= Egypt, Arabia, Ethiopia]; restricted to Abyssinia by Mertens (1967). DISTRIBUTION. Arabian Peninsula, shores of the Red Sea, Ethiopia, Somalia, Kenya, Iraq, Iran, Pakistan. DISTRIBUTION IN IRAN. Fig. 46. Coastal areas by the Persian Gulf in Hormozgan and Sistan and Baluchistan Prov. including Qeshm and Larak islands; the Mesopotamian Plain and probably also Qazvin Prov. Its occurrence in Iran was first indicated by Moravec & Böhme (1997) and confirmed by Bauer et al. (2006). HABITAT. Usually found near human settlements, on walls of abandoned as well as inhabited buildings, under wooden and rocky debris. REMARKS. There has been an ongoing discrepancy regarding the presence of H. turcicus in Iran. Hemidactylus turcicus was for long believed to occupy large territory from the western Mediterranean across the Arabian Peninsula and Mesopotamian Plain to Iran and Pakistan, until H. robustus was revalidated as a full species (Lanza 1990; Moravec & Böhme 1997) and the eastern parts of the formerly large range were assigned to the latter species. Morphologically these two species are very similar and can be easily confused. However, they are not closely related. Hemidactylus robustus belongs to a species group with mostly S Arabian distribution whereas H. turcicus is a member of a species group of Levant origin (Moravec et al. 2011; Šmíd et al. 2013a). Based on the latest summarization of the distribution of both species (Sindaco & Jeremčenko 2008) we believe that the records of H. turcicus from Iran should be referred to as H. robustus, although we have not seen the material. Also, recent records of H. turcicus from Iran (Werner 2006; Gholamifard & Rastegar-Pouyani 2011) are more likely misidentified specimens of H. robustus (see Fig. 2 in Gholamifard & Rastegar-Pouyani, 2011). Therefore all specimens determined in the source reference as H. turcicus are depicted in the map of H. robustus in Fig. 46 as dubious records. A single remote record from Turkmenistan by Obst (1984) was rejected as an accidentally imported specimen or museum error (Szczerbak & Golubev 1996). Peculiar remain also two animals collected near Qazvin by Guibé (1957) which are, however, also considered only accidental introductions along caravan routes (Anderson 1999). REFERENCES. Moravec & Böhme (1997); Anderson (1999); Bauer et al. (2006); Gholamifard & Rastegar-Pouyani (2011); Šmíd et al. (2013a, b)., Published as part of Šmíd, Jiří, Moravec, Jiří, Kodym, Petr, Kratochvíl, Lukáš, Yousefkhani, Seyyed Saeed Hosseinian, Rastegar-Pouyani, Eskandar & Frynta, Daniel, 2014, Annotated checklist and distribution of the lizards of Iran, pp. 1-97 in Zootaxa 3855 (1) on page 20, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3855.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/4929701, {"references":["Heyden, C. H. G. (1827) Reptilien. In: Ruppell, E. (Ed.), Atlas zu der Reise im nordlichen Africa von Eduard Ruppell. Heinrich Ludwig Bronner, Frankfurt am Main, pp. 1 - 24.","Mertens, R. (1967) Die herpetologische Sektion des Natur-Museums und Forschungs-Institutes Senckenberg in Frankfurt a. M. nebst einem Verzeichnis ihrer Typen. Senckenbergiana Biologica, 48, 1 - 106.","Moravec, J. & Bohme, W. (1997) A new subspecies of the Mediterranean gecko, Hemidactylus turcicus from the Syrian lava desert. Herpetozoa, 10, 121 - 128.","Bauer, A. M., Jackman, T., Greenbaum, E. & Papenfuss, T. J. (2006) Confirmation of the occurrence of Hemidactylus robustus Heyden, 1827 (Reptilia: Gekkonidae) in Iran and Pakistan. Zoology in the Middle East, 39, 59 - 62. http: // dx. doi. org / 10.1080 / 09397140.2006.10638182","Lanza, B. (1990) Amphibians and reptiles of the Somali Democratic Republic: check list and biogeography. Biogeographia, 14, 407 - 465.","Moravec, J., Kratochvil, L., Amr, Z. S., Jandzik, D., Smid, J. & Gvozdik, V. (2011) High genetic differentiation within the Hemidactylus turcicus complex (Reptilia: Gekkonidae) in the Levant, with comments on the phylogeny and systematics of the genus. Zootaxa, 2894, 21 - 38.","Smid, J., Carranza, S., Kratochvil, L., Gvozdik, V., Nasher, A. K. & Moravec, J. (2013 a) Out of Arabia: A Complex Biogeographic History of Multiple Vicariance and Dispersal Events in the Gecko Genus Hemidactylus (Reptilia: Gekkonidae). PLoS ONE, 8, e 64018. http: // dx. doi. org / 10.1371 / journal. pone. 0064018","Sindaco, R. & Jeremcenko, V. K. (2008) The reptiles of the Western Palearctic. 1. Annotated checklist and distributional atlas of the turtles, crocodiles, amphisbaenians and lizards of Europe, North Africa, Middle East and Central Asia. Monografie della Societas Herpetologica Italica, Edizioni Belvedere, 579 pp.","Werner, Y. L. (2006) Retraction of Ptyodactylus Goldfuss from the fauna of Iran and its replacement by a new species of Asaccus Dixon and Anderson (Reptilia: Sauria: Gekkonidae). Hamadryad, 30, 135 - 140.","Gholamifard, A. & Rastegar-Pouyani, N. (2011) Distribution of Hemidactylus geckos (Reptilia: Gekkonidae) in Fars Province, Southern Iran. Amphibian and Reptile Conservation, 5, 1 - 5.","Obst, F. J. (1984) A record of the gecko Hemidactylus turcicus in Turkmenia [in Russian]. Trudy Zoologicheskogo Instituta, 124, 142 - 143.","Szczerbak, N. N. & Golubev, M. L. (1996) Gecko fauna of the USSR and contiguous regions. Society for the Study of Amphibians and Reptiles, Oxfor, Ohio, 233 pp.","Guibe, J. (1957) Reptiles d'Iran recoltes par M. Francis Petter. Description d'un viperide nouveau: Pseudocerastes latirostris, n. sp. Bulletin du Museum national d'Histoire naturelle, Paris, 29, 136 - 143.","Anderson, S. C. (1999) The lizards of Iran. Society for the Study of Amphibians and Reptiles, Oxford, Ohio, 442 pp."]}

Mediodactylus stevenandersoni (Torki, 2011) HOLOTYPE. ZFMK 91901. TYPE LOCALITY. Tang-e-Gavshomar region (Ganj-Dare), Delphan City, Lorestan Prov., Iran. DISTRIBUTION. Endemic to Iran. DISTRIBUTION IN IRAN. Fig. 55. The central Zagros Mountains (Lorestan and Markazi Prov.). HABITAT. Mountainous area with numerous rocks and stones which provide natural day shelters for the geckos. All localities from which M. stevenandersoni has been reported are covered with oak forest. REMARKS. Originally described under the genus Carinatogecko. REFERENCES. Sadeghi & Torki (2011); Torki (2011)., Published as part of Šmíd, Jiří, Moravec, Jiří, Kodym, Petr, Kratochvíl, Lukáš, Yousefkhani, Seyyed Saeed Hosseinian, Rastegar-Pouyani, Eskandar & Frynta, Daniel, 2014, Annotated checklist and distribution of the lizards of Iran, pp. 1-97 in Zootaxa 3855 (1) on page 23, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3855.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/4929701, {"references":["Sadeghi, R. & Torki, F. (2011) Notes on the natural history and distribution of Carinatogecko stevenandersoni Torki, 2011. Amphibian and Reptile Conservation, 5, 34 - 36."]}

Hemidactylus romeshkanicus Torki, Manthey & Barts, 2011 HOLOTYPE. ZMB 75020. TYPE LOCALITY. Western slope of the central Zagros Mountains, Romeshkan region, Lorestan Prov., Iran. DISTRIBUTION. Endemic to Iran. DISTRIBUTION IN IRAN. Fig. 47. Known only from the type locality in Lorestan Prov. HABITAT. The only available information says the habitat “...is mountainous and covered with scattered oak forest. The specimen... was found under a large stone.” (Torki et al. 2011a). REMARKS. The species is believed to be a member of the arid clade of Hemidactylus (Šmíd et al. 2013a). REFERENCES. Torki et al. (2011a)., Published as part of Šmíd, Jiří, Moravec, Jiří, Kodym, Petr, Kratochvíl, Lukáš, Yousefkhani, Seyyed Saeed Hosseinian, Rastegar-Pouyani, Eskandar & Frynta, Daniel, 2014, Annotated checklist and distribution of the lizards of Iran, pp. 1-97 in Zootaxa 3855 (1) on page 20, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3855.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/4929701, {"references":["Torki, F., Manthey, U. & Barts, M. (2011 a) A new Hemidactylus from Lorestan Province, western Iran, with notes on Hemidactylus robustus Heyden, 1827 (Reptilia: Squamata: Gekkonidae). Sauria, 33, 47 - 56.","Smid, J., Carranza, S., Kratochvil, L., Gvozdik, V., Nasher, A. K. & Moravec, J. (2013 a) Out of Arabia: A Complex Biogeographic History of Multiple Vicariance and Dispersal Events in the Gecko Genus Hemidactylus (Reptilia: Gekkonidae). PLoS ONE, 8, e 64018. http: // dx. doi. org / 10.1371 / journal. pone. 0064018"]}

Tenuidactylus turcmenicus (Szczerbak, 1978) HOLOTYPE. ZIK Re N o. 10. TYPE LOCALITY. Agashly near Kushka, Badghyz, Turkmenistan. DISTRIBUTION. Iran, Turkmenistan, Afghanistan. DISTRIBUTION IN IRAN. Fig. 67. Known only from an unverified record from Gorgan, Golestan Prov. (NHMW specimen), a locality remarkably distant from the rest of the species range in N Afghanistan. HABITAT. In Turkmenistan this gecko inhabits vertical limestone cliffs with predominantly southern exposure, it is absent from taluses and individual rocky boulders (Szczerbak & Golubev 1996). REMARKS. The actual occurrence of T. turcmenicus in Iran needs to be proven. REFERENCES. Szczerbak & Golubev (1996); Anderson (1999)., Published as part of Šmíd, Jiří, Moravec, Jiří, Kodym, Petr, Kratochvíl, Lukáš, Yousefkhani, Seyyed Saeed Hosseinian, Rastegar-Pouyani, Eskandar & Frynta, Daniel, 2014, Annotated checklist and distribution of the lizards of Iran, pp. 1-97 in Zootaxa 3855 (1) on pages 26-27, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3855.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/4929701, {"references":["Szczerbak, N. N. (1978) Gymnodactylus turcmenicus sp. n. (Reptilia, Sauria) - a new species of gecko from the southern Turkmenia. Vestnik Zoologii, 3, 39 - 44. [in Russian]","Szczerbak, N. N. & Golubev, M. L. (1996) Gecko fauna of the USSR and contiguous regions. Society for the Study of Amphibians and Reptiles, Oxfor, Ohio, 233 pp.","Anderson, S. C. (1999) The lizards of Iran. Society for the Study of Amphibians and Reptiles, Oxford, Ohio, 442 pp."]}

Cyrtopodion gastropholis (Werner, 1917) HOLOTYPE. ZFMK 27095 (Nr. 74 in the original description). TYPE LOCALITY. Fars Prov., Iran. DISTRIBUTION. Endemic to Iran. DISTRIBUTION IN IRAN. Fig. 35. Bushehr, Hormozgan, Fars, and Kohgiluyeh and Boyer Ahmad Prov. The distribution of C. gastropholis was reviewed by Ahmadzadeh et al. (2011). The authors doubt the record from Hormozgan Prov. (Červenka et al. 2008) to belong to this species. Nevertheless, the occurrence of C. gastropholis in central Hormozgan Prov. is independently confirmed by a CAS record from the vicinity of Bandar Abbas (CAS 86370). HABITAT. Anderson (1999) collected his specimen on a wall of a mud-brick building; otherwise there are no habitat-related data to this species. REMARKS. Assigned to the genus Agamura by Szczerbak & Golubev (1986). Ahmadzadeh et al. (2011) put right the problems associated with the spelling of the species epithet. The name “ gastropholis ” is a noun in apposition and must not be conjugated to “ gastrophole ”, as some authors do (Anderson 1999; Bauer et al. 2013). REFERENCES. Szczerbak & Golubev (1986, 1996); Anderson (1999); Červenka et al. (2008); Ahmadzadeh et al. (2011); Bauer et al. (2013)., Published as part of Šmíd, Jiří, Moravec, Jiří, Kodym, Petr, Kratochvíl, Lukáš, Yousefkhani, Seyyed Saeed Hosseinian, Rastegar-Pouyani, Eskandar & Frynta, Daniel, 2014, Annotated checklist and distribution of the lizards of Iran, pp. 1-97 in Zootaxa 3855 (1) on page 17, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3855.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/4929701, {"references":["Werner, F. (1917) Reptilien aus Persien (Provinz Fars). Verhandlungen der Zoologisch-Botanishen Gesellschaft in Wien, 67, 191 - 220.","Ahmadzadeh, F., Flecks, M., Torki, F. & Bohme, W. (2011) A new species of angular-toed gecko, genus Cyrtopodion (Squamata: Gekkonidae), from southern Iran. Zootaxa, 2924, 22 - 32.","Cervenka, J., Kratochvil, L. & Frynta, D. (2008) Phylogeny and taxonomy of the Middle Eastern geckos of the genus Cyrtopodion and their selected relatives. Zootaxa, 1931, 25 - 36.","Anderson, S. C. (1999) The lizards of Iran. Society for the Study of Amphibians and Reptiles, Oxford, Ohio, 442 pp.","Szczerbak, N. N. & Golubev, M. L. (1986) The Gecko Fauna of the USSR and Adjacent Regions. Nauka Dymka, Kiev, 232 pp., 8 pls. [in Russian]","Bauer, A. M., Masroor, R., Titus-Mcquillan, J., Heinicke, M. P., Daza, J. D. & Jackman, T. R. (2013) A preliminary phylogeny of the Palearctic naked-toed geckos (Reptilia: Squamata: Gekkonidae) with taxonomic implications. Zootaxa, 3599 (4), 301 - 324. http: // dx. doi. org / 10.11646 / zootaxa. 3599.4.1","Szczerbak, N. N. & Golubev, M. L. (1996) Gecko fauna of the USSR and contiguous regions. Society for the Study of Amphibians and Reptiles, Oxfor, Ohio, 233 pp."]}

Agamura persica (Duméril, 1856) SYNTYPES. MNHN 6761 (3 spec.) (Anderson 1999), although no such number in the MNHN catalogue. TYPE LOCALITY. Persia. DISTRIBUTION. Iran, Afghanistan, Pakistan. DISTRIBUTION IN IRAN. Fig. 29. Throughout most of the Iranian Plateau W of the Zagros and S of the Alborz and Kopet Dagh; apparently absent from the central desert system; isolated records from coastal Hormozgan Prov. HABITAT. Stony terrain, cliffs and rocky terraces, hillsides also barren plains and gravely alluvium with sparse shrubby vegetation (Minton 1966; Anderson 1999) REMARKS. Agamura is a monotypic genus phylogenetically close to Bunopus, Crossobamon, Cyrtopodion, and Tenuidactylus. Červenka et al. (2008) placed Agamura to a sister position with Cyrtopodion. Nevertheless, Bauer et al. (2013) recognized Bunopus and Crossobamon being closer to Agamura, and yet another study came up with Agamura as a sister genus to a clade consisting of all the other four above listed genera (Gamble et al. 2012). REFERENCES. Anderson (1999, 2000); Červenka et al. (2008); Gamble et al. (2012); Bauer et al. (2013)., Published as part of Šmíd, Jiří, Moravec, Jiří, Kodym, Petr, Kratochvíl, Lukáš, Yousefkhani, Seyyed Saeed Hosseinian, Rastegar-Pouyani, Eskandar & Frynta, Daniel, 2014, Annotated checklist and distribution of the lizards of Iran, pp. 1-97 in Zootaxa 3855 (1) on page 15, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3855.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/4929701, {"references":["Dumeril, A. H. A. (1856) Description des reptiles nouveaux ou imparfaitement connus de la collection du Museum d'Histoire Naturelle et remarques sur la classification et les characteres des reptiles. Archives du Museum d'Histoire Naturelle, Paris, 8, 438 - 588. http: // dx. doi. org / 10.5962 / bhl. title. 62017","Anderson, S. C. (1999) The lizards of Iran. Society for the Study of Amphibians and Reptiles, Oxford, Ohio, 442 pp.","Minton, S. A. (1966) A contribution to the herpetology of West Pakistan. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History, 134, 27 - 184. http: // hdl. handle. net / 2246 / 1129","Cervenka, J., Kratochvil, L. & Frynta, D. (2008) Phylogeny and taxonomy of the Middle Eastern geckos of the genus Cyrtopodion and their selected relatives. Zootaxa, 1931, 25 - 36.","Bauer, A. M., Masroor, R., Titus-Mcquillan, J., Heinicke, M. P., Daza, J. D. & Jackman, T. R. (2013) A preliminary phylogeny of the Palearctic naked-toed geckos (Reptilia: Squamata: Gekkonidae) with taxonomic implications. Zootaxa, 3599 (4), 301 - 324. http: // dx. doi. org / 10.11646 / zootaxa. 3599.4.1","Gamble, T., Greenbaum, E., Jackman, T. R., Russell, A. P. & Bauer, A. M. (2012) Repeated Origin and Loss of Adhesive Toepads in Geckos. PLoS ONE, 7, e 39429. http: // dx. doi. org / 10.1371 / journal. pone. 0039429","Anderson, S. C. (2000) Preliminary observations and comments on syntopic occurrence of lizards in Iran. Russian Journal of Herpetology, 7, 236 - 238."]}

Mediodactylus russowii (Strauch, 1887) LECTOTYPE. ZIL 3658; Lectotype ZIL 9334a (M. r. zarudnyi), both designated by Szczerbak & Golubev (1986). TYPE LOCALITY. Originally Novo-Aleksandorvsk, Chodschent, Mangyschlak, Murza-Robat, Mohal-tau, Tschimkent, Tschinaz, des. Golodnaja, Utsch-Kurgan ad Naryn, Chark-Ukjur (ex. Nikolsky (1915)). Restricted to Nowo-Aleksandrowsk by Mertens & Wermuth (1960); further restricted to “ruins of old fortress at Novo-Aleksandrovskoye” by Szczerbak & Golubev (1986) who also provide a detailed discussion on the type locality. DISTRIBUTION. S Russia, Kazakhstan, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Afghanistan, NE Iran, China. DISTRIBUTION IN IRAN. Fig. 52. Eastern and northeastern Iran; new localities were recently published by Mahroo et al. (2013). HABITAT. Restricted to flatland desert and semidesert areas where it lives on tree trunks, cliffs in river and ravine plains, under rocks and on walls of ruined and inhabited buildings made of clay and stone. REMARKS. Eastern Iran is inhabited by the subspecies M. r. zarudnyi (Nikolsky). According to the latest phylogenetic studies (Gamble et al. 2012; Pyron et al. 2013), M. russowii together with its sister species, M. spinicauda, form a group isolated from other Mediodactylus and nested closer to a clade of Pseudoceramodactylus, Tropiocolotes, and Stenodactylus thus rendering the genus Mediodactylus paraphyletic. REFERENCES. Szczerbak & Golubev (1986, 1996); Anderson (1999); Gamble et al. (2012); Bauer et al. (2013); Mahroo et al. (2013)., Published as part of Šmíd, Jiří, Moravec, Jiří, Kodym, Petr, Kratochvíl, Lukáš, Yousefkhani, Seyyed Saeed Hosseinian, Rastegar-Pouyani, Eskandar & Frynta, Daniel, 2014, Annotated checklist and distribution of the lizards of Iran, pp. 1-97 in Zootaxa 3855 (1) on page 22, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3855.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/4929701, {"references":["Strauch, A. (1887) Bemerkungen uber die Geckoniden-Sammlung im zoologischen Museum der kaiserlichen Akademie der Wissenschaften zu St. Petersburg. Memoires de l'Academie imperiale des sciences de St. Petersbourg, Series 7, 35, 1 - 72. http: // dx. doi. org / 10.5962 / bhl. title. 11977","Szczerbak, N. N. & Golubev, M. L. (1986) The Gecko Fauna of the USSR and Adjacent Regions. Nauka Dymka, Kiev, 232 pp., 8 pls. [in Russian]","Nikolsky, A. M. (1915) Fauna of Russia and adjacent countries. Reptiles. Vol. I. Chelonia and Sauria. Israel Program for Scientific Translations, Jerusalem 1963, 352 pp.","Mertens, R. & Wermuth, H. (1960) Die Amphibien und Reptilien Europas. Frankfurt am Main, Waldemar Kramer, 264 pp.","Mahroo, B. S., Ghaffari, H., Panah, A. S., Fahimi, H., Naderi, A. & Bromand, S. (2013) New geographic distribution records of Zarudny's bent-toed gecko, Mediodactylus russowii zarudnyi Nikolsky, 1899 (Sauria: Gekkonidae) from Iran. Russian Journal of Herpetology, 20, 73 - 78.","Gamble, T., Greenbaum, E., Jackman, T. R., Russell, A. P. & Bauer, A. M. (2012) Repeated Origin and Loss of Adhesive Toepads in Geckos. PLoS ONE, 7, e 39429. http: // dx. doi. org / 10.1371 / journal. pone. 0039429","Pyron, R., Burbrink, F. & Wiens, J. (2013) A phylogeny and revised classification of Squamata, including 4161 species of lizards and snakes. BMC Evolutionary Biology, 13, 93. http: // dx. doi. org / 10.1186 / 1471 - 2148 - 13 - 93","Szczerbak, N. N. & Golubev, M. L. (1996) Gecko fauna of the USSR and contiguous regions. Society for the Study of Amphibians and Reptiles, Oxfor, Ohio, 233 pp.","Anderson, S. C. (1999) The lizards of Iran. Society for the Study of Amphibians and Reptiles, Oxford, Ohio, 442 pp.","Bauer, A. M., Masroor, R., Titus-Mcquillan, J., Heinicke, M. P., Daza, J. D. & Jackman, T. R. (2013) A preliminary phylogeny of the Palearctic naked-toed geckos (Reptilia: Squamata: Gekkonidae) with taxonomic implications. Zootaxa, 3599 (4), 301 - 324. http: // dx. doi. org / 10.11646 / zootaxa. 3599.4.1"]}

Cyrtopodion kirmanense (Nikolsky, 1900) LECTOTYPE. ZIL 9330, designated by Szczerbak & Golubev (1986). TYPE LOCALITY. Kuh-e Taftan, Sargad, Sistan and Baluchistan Prov., Iran; restricted to Kuh-e Taftan by Szczerbak & Golubev (1986). DISTRIBUTION. Endemic to Iran. DISTRIBUTION IN IRAN. Fig. 40. Sistan and Baluchistan Prov. There are uncertain records from Kerman, Kerman Prov. (NHMW specimen) and Persepolis, Fars Prov., reported by Schmidt (1939) which lack any details concerning the specimens determination. HABITAT. “... sheer rocky cliffs in the mountains, river banks and dry channels; shady terraces, cracks, niches; occasionally, on loose fragments of rock boulders. It is most frequently found on granites and, less often, on conglomerates and other rocks.” (Szczerbak & Golubev 1996). REFERENCES. Szczerbak & Golubev (1986, 1996); Anderson (1999)., Published as part of Šmíd, Jiří, Moravec, Jiří, Kodym, Petr, Kratochvíl, Lukáš, Yousefkhani, Seyyed Saeed Hosseinian, Rastegar-Pouyani, Eskandar & Frynta, Daniel, 2014, Annotated checklist and distribution of the lizards of Iran, pp. 1-97 in Zootaxa 3855 (1) on page 18, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3855.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/4929701, {"references":["Nikolsky, A. M. (1900) Reptiles, amphibies et poissons, recueillis pendant le voyage de Mr. N. A. Zaroudny en 1898 dans la Perse. Annuaire Musee Zoologique de l'Academie Imperiale des Sciences de St. - Petersbourg, 4,375 - 417.","Szczerbak, N. N. & Golubev, M. L. (1986) The Gecko Fauna of the USSR and Adjacent Regions. Nauka Dymka, Kiev, 232 pp., 8 pls. [in Russian]","Schmidt, K. P. (1939) Reptiles and Amphibians from Southwestern Asia. Zoological Series of Field Museum of Natural History, 24, 49 - 92.","Szczerbak, N. N. & Golubev, M. L. (1996) Gecko fauna of the USSR and contiguous regions. Society for the Study of Amphibians and Reptiles, Oxfor, Ohio, 233 pp.","Anderson, S. C. (1999) The lizards of Iran. Society for the Study of Amphibians and Reptiles, Oxford, Ohio, 442 pp."]}

Cyrtopodion golubevi Nazarov, Ananjeva & Radjabizadeh, 2009 HOLOTYPE. ZMMU R-12624. TYPE LOCALITY. 100 km NW from Iranshehr [= Iranshahr], near Bazman, Sistan and Baluchistan Prov., Iran. DISTRIBUTION. Endemic to Iran, but likely to be also found in the bordering regions of Pakistan (Nazarov et al. 2009). DISTRIBUTION IN IRAN. Fig. 36. Known only from the type locality and the locality of the paratypes, about 1 km apart. HABITAT. The type locality is a humid canyon with dense vegetation in the otherwise dry clayey foothills with a poor shrubby cover. REFERENCES. Nazarov et al. (2009)., Published as part of Šmíd, Jiří, Moravec, Jiří, Kodym, Petr, Kratochvíl, Lukáš, Yousefkhani, Seyyed Saeed Hosseinian, Rastegar-Pouyani, Eskandar & Frynta, Daniel, 2014, Annotated checklist and distribution of the lizards of Iran, pp. 1-97 in Zootaxa 3855 (1) on page 17, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3855.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/4929701, {"references":["Nazarov, R. A., Ananjeva, N. & Radjabizadeh, M. (2009) Two new species of angular-toed geckoes (Squamata: Gekkonidae) from south Iran. Russian Journal of Herpetology, 16, 311 - 324."]}

Mediodactylus spinicauda (Strauch, 1887) HOLOTYPE. ZIL 4047. TYPE LOCALITY. Shahrud, Semnan Prov., Iran. DISTRIBUTION. Iran, Turkmenistan, Afghanistan. DISTRIBUTION IN IRAN. Fig. 54. N and NE parts of the country, reported from Tehran, Semnan, Khorasan Razavi and South Khorasan Prov. HABITAT. The only information available from Iran is by Nazarov (2005), who found M. spinicauda in an intermontane argillaceous rubble plain with sparse vegetation consisting of wormwood and some species of saltwort and subshrub, which is in agreement with data from the Kopet Dagh piedmont in Turkmenistan (Szczerbak & Golubev 1996). REMARKS. A sister species to M. russowii (Macey et al. 2000b; Pyron et al. 2013). For discussion on the phylogenetic relationships among Mediodactylus and the paraphyly of the genus see remarks by M. russowii above. REFERENCES. Szczerbak & Golubev (1996); Anderson (1999); Nazarov (2005); Gamble et al. (2012); Bauer et al. (2013)., Published as part of Šmíd, Jiří, Moravec, Jiří, Kodym, Petr, Kratochvíl, Lukáš, Yousefkhani, Seyyed Saeed Hosseinian, Rastegar-Pouyani, Eskandar & Frynta, Daniel, 2014, Annotated checklist and distribution of the lizards of Iran, pp. 1-97 in Zootaxa 3855 (1) on pages 22-23, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3855.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/4929701, {"references":["Strauch, A. (1887) Bemerkungen uber die Geckoniden-Sammlung im zoologischen Museum der kaiserlichen Akademie der Wissenschaften zu St. Petersburg. Memoires de l'Academie imperiale des sciences de St. Petersbourg, Series 7, 35, 1 - 72. http: // dx. doi. org / 10.5962 / bhl. title. 11977","Nazarov, R. A. (2005) The new record of spiny-tailed thin-toed gecko Mediodactylus spinicauda (Strauch, 1887), (Reptilia, Gekkonidae) in East Iran. Russian Journal of Herpetology, 12, 124.","Szczerbak, N. N. & Golubev, M. L. (1996) Gecko fauna of the USSR and contiguous regions. Society for the Study of Amphibians and Reptiles, Oxfor, Ohio, 233 pp.","Macey, J. R., Ananjeva, N. B., Wang, Y. & Papenfuss, T. J. (2000 b) Phylogenetic relationships among Asian Gekkonid lizards formerly of the genus Cyrtodactylus based on cladistic analyses of allozymic data: monophyly of Cyrtopodion and Mediodactylus. Journal of Herpetology, 34, 258 - 265. http: // dx. doi. org / 10.2307 / 1565422","Pyron, R., Burbrink, F. & Wiens, J. (2013) A phylogeny and revised classification of Squamata, including 4161 species of lizards and snakes. BMC Evolutionary Biology, 13, 93. http: // dx. doi. org / 10.1186 / 1471 - 2148 - 13 - 93","Anderson, S. C. (1999) The lizards of Iran. Society for the Study of Amphibians and Reptiles, Oxford, Ohio, 442 pp.","Gamble, T., Greenbaum, E., Jackman, T. R., Russell, A. P. & Bauer, A. M. (2012) Repeated Origin and Loss of Adhesive Toepads in Geckos. PLoS ONE, 7, e 39429. http: // dx. doi. org / 10.1371 / journal. pone. 0039429","Bauer, A. M., Masroor, R., Titus-Mcquillan, J., Heinicke, M. P., Daza, J. D. & Jackman, T. R. (2013) A preliminary phylogeny of the Palearctic naked-toed geckos (Reptilia: Squamata: Gekkonidae) with taxonomic implications. Zootaxa, 3599 (4), 301 - 324. http: // dx. doi. org / 10.11646 / zootaxa. 3599.4.1"]}

Microgecko persicus (Nikolsky, 1903) HOLOTYPE. ZIL 10005; Holotype CAS 86408 (M. p. bakhtiari). TYPE LOCALITY. Vicus Degak in terra Dizak, Persia orient. [= Dehak, Sistan and Baluchistan Prov., Iran]. DISTRIBUTION. Iran, Pakistan, India. DISTRIBUTION IN IRAN. Fig. 58. S Iran from Khuzestan to Sistan and Baluchistan Prov. in a belt of about 300 km along the Persian Gulf shores. HABITAT. Found in various types of habitats from mountain or hilly regions with various degree of forestation to sand dunes on sedimentary plains. Karamiani et al. (2013) collected specimens of M. p. bakhtiari Minton, Anderson & Anderson on gypsum foothills with scarce vegetation. REMARKS. There are two subspecies occurring in Iran: the nominotypical one in the east of the country and M. p. bakhtiari in Khuzestan and Bushehr Prov. The two subspecies can be distinguished on the basis of different dorsal colour pattern, M. p. bakhtiari having dark crossbars broader than interspaces while the pattern in M. p. persicus is the opposite. However, Rajabizadeh et al. (2010a) found varying dorsal pattern among specimens from a locality in Hormozgan Prov. and assumed that there is a clinal variation in the width of dorsal bands across Iran. There is a single specimen in the MCZ collection (MCZ R-127395) from “ 35 km E of Gach Saran ”, Fars Prov., supposedly belonging to M. p. euphorbiacola Minton, Anderson & Anderson, a subspecies distributed in S Pakistan and NW India, which we consider wrongly determined based on its location, but closer examination of the specimen is needed. REFERENCES. Minton et al. (1970); Anderson (1999); Rajabizadeh et al. (2010a); Torki (2010c); Karamiani et al. (2013)., Published as part of Šmíd, Jiří, Moravec, Jiří, Kodym, Petr, Kratochvíl, Lukáš, Yousefkhani, Seyyed Saeed Hosseinian, Rastegar-Pouyani, Eskandar & Frynta, Daniel, 2014, Annotated checklist and distribution of the lizards of Iran, pp. 1-97 in Zootaxa 3855 (1) on page 24, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3855.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/4929701, {"references":["Nikolsky, A. M. (1903) On the species of reptiles collected by N. A. Zarudny in Eastern Persia in 1901 [in Russian]. Annuaire Musee Zoologique de l'Academie Imperiale des Sciences de St. - Petersbourg, 8, 95 - 98.","Karamiani, R., Gholamifard, A. & Rastegar-Pouyani, N. (2013) Additional specimens and further data on Bakhtiari dwarf gecko, Tropiocolotes persicus bakhtiari Minton, Anderson et Anderson, 1970 from southwestern Iran. Russian Journal of Herpetology, 20, 271 - 275.","Rajabizadeh, M., Rastegar-Pouyani, N., Faizi, H. & Bostanchi, H. (2010 a) New insights in the taxonomy of the Persian Sand Gecko, Tropiocolotes persicus (Nikolsky, 1903). Zoology in the Middle East, 49, 55 - 62. http: // dx. doi. org / 10.1080 / 09397140.2010.10638390","Minton, S. A., Anderson, S. C. & Anderson, J. A. (1970) Remarks on some geckos from southwest Asia, with descriptions of three new forms and a key to the genus Tropiocolotes. Proceedings of the California Academy of Sciences, 37, 333 - 362.","Anderson, S. C. (1999) The lizards of Iran. Society for the Study of Amphibians and Reptiles, Oxford, Ohio, 442 pp.","Torki, F. (2010 c) Bemerkungen zur Taxonomie und Okologie des Tropiocolotes persicus - Komplexes (Reptilia: Gekkonidae) im Iran. Sauria, 32, 43 - 48."]}

Rhinogekko femoralis (Smith, 1933) HOLOTYPE. BMNH 1946.8.20.48 (ex. BMNH 12.3.26.12). TYPE LOCALITY. Kharan, Baluchistan, Pakistan. DISTRIBUTION. Iran and Pakistan. DISTRIBUTION IN IRAN. Fig. 60. Extreme eastern Sistan and Baluchistan Prov. HABITAT. The only available information is from Pakistan by Minton (1966) who collected his specimens near rocky outcrops in sandy habitats. REMARKS. The two Iranian localities of R. femoralis mentioned by Szczerbak & Golubev (1986; Koh-i Taftan and Mirjawe [Meer Jawe]), are doubted to be situated in Iran by Anderson (1999). The species is also not listed in the last country checklist (Rastegar-Pouyani et al. 2008). The Koh-i Taftan specimens were apparently collected at Taftan, a railway station in Pakistan about 2 km east of the border. Also de Witte (1980), who studied the material, states that all specimens were from W Pakistan. However, Mirjawe is a city in Iran about 2 km west of the Pakistani border and because precise location of the specimens cannot be specified, and the Iranian Mirjawe cannot be ruled out, we tentatively include this locality here as the only place in Iran this species is known from. REFERENCES. Minton (1966); de Witte (1980); Szczerbak & Golubev (1996); Anderson (1999)., Published as part of Šmíd, Jiří, Moravec, Jiří, Kodym, Petr, Kratochvíl, Lukáš, Yousefkhani, Seyyed Saeed Hosseinian, Rastegar-Pouyani, Eskandar & Frynta, Daniel, 2014, Annotated checklist and distribution of the lizards of Iran, pp. 1-97 in Zootaxa 3855 (1) on pages 24-25, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3855.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/4929701, {"references":["Smith, M. A. (1933) Remarks on some old world geckoes. Records of the Indian Museum, 35, 9 - 19.","Minton, S. A. (1966) A contribution to the herpetology of West Pakistan. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History, 134, 27 - 184. http: // hdl. handle. net / 2246 / 1129","Szczerbak, N. N. & Golubev, M. L. (1986) The Gecko Fauna of the USSR and Adjacent Regions. Nauka Dymka, Kiev, 232 pp., 8 pls. [in Russian]","Anderson, S. C. (1999) The lizards of Iran. Society for the Study of Amphibians and Reptiles, Oxford, Ohio, 442 pp.","Rastegar-Pouyani, N., Kami, H. G., Rajabzadeh, M., Shafiei, S. & Anderson, S. C. (2008) Annotated checklist of Amphibians and Reptiles of Iran. Iranian Journal of Animal Biosystematics, 4, 43 - 66.","de Witte, G. F. (1980) Note relative a Rhinogekko misonnei de Witte et Agamura femoralis M. Smith: (Reptilia Sauria). Bulletin de l'Institut Royale des Sciences naturelles de Belgique, 52, 1 - 3.","Szczerbak, N. N. & Golubev, M. L. (1996) Gecko fauna of the USSR and contiguous regions. Society for the Study of Amphibians and Reptiles, Oxfor, Ohio, 233 pp."]}

Microgecko latifi (Leviton & Anderson, 1972) HOLOTYPE. CAS 134365. TYPE LOCALITY. Kerman, Kerman Prov., Iran. DISTRIBUTION. Endemic to Iran. DISTRIBUTION IN IRAN. Fig. 57. The central Iranian Plateau and the eastern and southern Zagros foothills. HABITAT. Specimens reported by Moravec & Černý (1994) were found under stones on the shore of a small stream, in a wadi and on a mountain ridge. Animals in Mahan, Kerman Prov. were found under large dirt boulders near cultivated gardens (pers. obs.). REFERENCES. Moravec & Černý (1994); Kami & Vakilpoure (1996); Anderson (1999); Rastegar-Pouyani et al. (2009b); Mirghazanfari (2013)., Published as part of Šmíd, Jiří, Moravec, Jiří, Kodym, Petr, Kratochvíl, Lukáš, Yousefkhani, Seyyed Saeed Hosseinian, Rastegar-Pouyani, Eskandar & Frynta, Daniel, 2014, Annotated checklist and distribution of the lizards of Iran, pp. 1-97 in Zootaxa 3855 (1) on pages 23-24, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3855.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/4929701, {"references":["Leviton, A. E. & Anderson, S. C. (1972) Description of a new species of Tropiocolotes with a revised key to the genus. Occasional Papers of the California Academy of Sciences, 96, 1 - 7.","Moravec, J. & Cerny, M. (1994) Second finding of the Iranian gecko Tropiocolotes latifi. Journal of the National Museum (Prague), Natural History Series, 163, 88.","Kami, H. G. & Vakilpoure, E. (1996) Geographic distribution: Tropiocolotes latifi. Herpetological Review, 27, 153.","Anderson, S. C. (1999) The lizards of Iran. Society for the Study of Amphibians and Reptiles, Oxford, Ohio, 442 pp.","Rastegar-Pouyani, N., Oraei, H. & Johari, M. (2009 b) A new record of the gekkonid lizard Tropiocolotes latifi Leviton & Anderson, 1972 from Iran (Sauria: Gekkonidae). Zoology in the Middle East, 47, 105 - 107. http: // dx. doi. org / 10.1080 / 09397140.2009. 10638352","Mirghazanfari, S. M. (2013) Geographic distribution: Tropiocolotes latifi (Latifi's Dwarf Gecko). Herpetological Review, 44, 274."]}

Tenuidactylus caspius (Eichwald, 1831) LECTOTYPE. ZIL 3182, designated by Szczerbak & Golubev (1986). TYPE LOCALITY. Baku, Azerbaijan. DISTRIBUTION. Transcaucasia, S Russia, Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, N Afghanistan, and N and E Iran. DISTRIBUTION IN IRAN. Fig. 65. W of the Caspian Sea, the eastern Alborz and Kopet Dagh ranges, along the Afghan border to the Zabol region in Sistan and Baluchistan Prov. Two isolated and dubious records from Kermanshah and Fars Prov. require further confirmation (Szczerbak & Golubev 1996). HABITAT. Vertical cliffs and rocky faces; also found in anthropogenic habitats on brick walls, stone fences, and other abandoned structures as well as on inhabited buildings. REFERENCES. Szczerbak & Golubev (1986, 1996); Kami (2005a); Červenka et al. (2008); Ahmadzadeh et al. (2008, 2010); Bauer et al. (2013); Hojati et al. (2013)., Published as part of Šmíd, Jiří, Moravec, Jiří, Kodym, Petr, Kratochvíl, Lukáš, Yousefkhani, Seyyed Saeed Hosseinian, Rastegar-Pouyani, Eskandar & Frynta, Daniel, 2014, Annotated checklist and distribution of the lizards of Iran, pp. 1-97 in Zootaxa 3855 (1) on page 26, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3855.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/4929701, {"references":["Eichwald, K. E. I. (1831) Zoologia specialis quam exposites animalibus tum vivis, tum fossilibus potissimum Rossiae in universum, et Poloniae in specie. Vol. 3. Typis Josephi Zawadzki, Vilna, 404 pp.","Szczerbak, N. N. & Golubev, M. L. (1986) The Gecko Fauna of the USSR and Adjacent Regions. Nauka Dymka, Kiev, 232 pp., 8 pls. [in Russian]","Szczerbak, N. N. & Golubev, M. L. (1996) Gecko fauna of the USSR and contiguous regions. Society for the Study of Amphibians and Reptiles, Oxfor, Ohio, 233 pp.","Kami, H. G. (2005 a) Geographic Distribution: Cyrtopodion caspium caspium (Caspian Bent-toed Gecko, or Caspian Thin-toed Gecko). Herpetological Review, 36, 79.","Cervenka, J., Kratochvil, L. & Frynta, D. (2008) Phylogeny and taxonomy of the Middle Eastern geckos of the genus Cyrtopodion and their selected relatives. Zootaxa, 1931, 25 - 36.","Ahmadzadeh, F., Kiabi, B. H., Kami, H. G. & Hojjati, V. (2008) A preliminary study of the lizard fauna and their habitats in northwestern Iran. Asiatic Herpetological Research, 11, 1 - 9.","Bauer, A. M., Masroor, R., Titus-Mcquillan, J., Heinicke, M. P., Daza, J. D. & Jackman, T. R. (2013) A preliminary phylogeny of the Palearctic naked-toed geckos (Reptilia: Squamata: Gekkonidae) with taxonomic implications. Zootaxa, 3599 (4), 301 - 324. http: // dx. doi. org / 10.11646 / zootaxa. 3599.4.1","Hojati, V., Parivar, K., Rastegar-Pouyani, E. & Shiravi, A. (2013) The oogenic cycle of the Caspian bent-toed gecko, Cyrtopodion caspium (Squamata: Gekkonidae) in Iran. Acta Herpetologica, 8, 1 - 8. http: // dx. doi. org / 10.13128 / Acta _ Herpetol- 11096"]}

Cyrtopodion hormozganum Nazarov, Bondarenko & Radjabizadeh 2012 HOLOTYPE. ICSTZ M6H1290. TYPE LOCALITY. 27 km NW from Minab, Hormozgan Prov., Iran. DISTRIBUTION. Endemic to Iran. DISTRIBUTION IN IRAN. Fig. 37. Known only from the type locality. HABITAT. Reported by Nazarov et al. (2012) as “...desert plateau with isolated low-mountains and ranges which can be considered as a transitional zone from the coastal plains of Garmsir on the Persian Gulf up the East Iranian Mts. Gecko habitats are located in low mountains dissected by dry riverbeds (wadi) and almost devoid of vegetation at an altitude of 77–90 m a.s.l. Sparse vegetation consists of rare ephemeral grasses (genus Poa) and xerophytic shrubs (Astragalus, Convolvulus, Gailonia, Hammada, Salsola), growing in the intermountain sites and along wadi.” REFERENCES. Nazarov et al. (2012)., Published as part of Šmíd, Jiří, Moravec, Jiří, Kodym, Petr, Kratochvíl, Lukáš, Yousefkhani, Seyyed Saeed Hosseinian, Rastegar-Pouyani, Eskandar & Frynta, Daniel, 2014, Annotated checklist and distribution of the lizards of Iran, pp. 1-97 in Zootaxa 3855 (1) on pages 17-18, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3855.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/4929701, {"references":["Nazarov, R., Bondarenko, D. A. & Radjabizadeh, M. (2012) A new species of thin-toed geckos Cyrtopodion sensu lato (Squamata: Sauria: Gekkonidae) from Hormozgan province, South Iran. Russian Journal of Herpetology, 19, 292 - 298."]}

Tenuidactylus Szczerbak & Golubev, 1984 Although described as a separate genus, it was for long treated as a subgenus of Cyrtopodion (Böhme 1985; Anderson 1999; Sindaco & Jeremčenko 2008). Recent phylogenetic studies show the distinctness of Tenuidactylus and prove its genus level is justified (Gamble et al. 2012; Bauer et al. 2013). However, its phylogenetic position with respect to Cyrtopodion has not been satisfactorily resolved. Červenka et al. (2008) and Pyron et al. (2013) placed it between the agamuroides and scabrum groups of Cyrtopodion, thus rendering Cyrtopodion paraphyletic., Published as part of Šmíd, Jiří, Moravec, Jiří, Kodym, Petr, Kratochvíl, Lukáš, Yousefkhani, Seyyed Saeed Hosseinian, Rastegar-Pouyani, Eskandar & Frynta, Daniel, 2014, Annotated checklist and distribution of the lizards of Iran, pp. 1-97 in Zootaxa 3855 (1) on page 26, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3855.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/4929701, {"references":["Bohme, W. (1985) Zur Nomenklatur der palaarktischen Bogenfingergeckos, Gattung Tenuidactylus Scerbak & Golubew, 1984. Bonner zoologische Beitrage, 36, 95 - 98.","Anderson, S. C. (1999) The lizards of Iran. Society for the Study of Amphibians and Reptiles, Oxford, Ohio, 442 pp.","Sindaco, R. & Jeremcenko, V. K. (2008) The reptiles of the Western Palearctic. 1. Annotated checklist and distributional atlas of the turtles, crocodiles, amphisbaenians and lizards of Europe, North Africa, Middle East and Central Asia. Monografie della Societas Herpetologica Italica, Edizioni Belvedere, 579 pp.","Gamble, T., Greenbaum, E., Jackman, T. R., Russell, A. P. & Bauer, A. M. (2012) Repeated Origin and Loss of Adhesive Toepads in Geckos. PLoS ONE, 7, e 39429. http: // dx. doi. org / 10.1371 / journal. pone. 0039429","Bauer, A. M., Masroor, R., Titus-Mcquillan, J., Heinicke, M. P., Daza, J. D. & Jackman, T. R. (2013) A preliminary phylogeny of the Palearctic naked-toed geckos (Reptilia: Squamata: Gekkonidae) with taxonomic implications. Zootaxa, 3599 (4), 301 - 324. http: // dx. doi. org / 10.11646 / zootaxa. 3599.4.1","Cervenka, J., Kratochvil, L. & Frynta, D. (2008) Phylogeny and taxonomy of the Middle Eastern geckos of the genus Cyrtopodion and their selected relatives. Zootaxa, 1931, 25 - 36.","Pyron, R., Burbrink, F. & Wiens, J. (2013) A phylogeny and revised classification of Squamata, including 4161 species of lizards and snakes. BMC Evolutionary Biology, 13, 93. http: // dx. doi. org / 10.1186 / 1471 - 2148 - 13 - 93"]}

Hemidactylus Oken, 1817 The genus Hemidactylus is divided into four genetically distinct and geographically almost exclusive clades (Carranza & Arnold 2006). The species living in Iran belong to the arid clade (H. persicus, H. robustus, H. turcicus, and probably also H. romeshkanicus) and to the tropical Asian clade (H. flaviviridis)., Published as part of Šmíd, Jiří, Moravec, Jiří, Kodym, Petr, Kratochvíl, Lukáš, Yousefkhani, Seyyed Saeed Hosseinian, Rastegar-Pouyani, Eskandar & Frynta, Daniel, 2014, Annotated checklist and distribution of the lizards of Iran, pp. 1-97 in Zootaxa 3855 (1) on page 19, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3855.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/4929701, {"references":["Carranza, S. & Arnold, E. N. (2006) Systematics, biogeography and evolution of Hemidactylus geckos (Reptilia: Gekkonidae) elucidated using mitochondrial DNA sequences. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution, 38, 531 - 545. http: // dx. doi. org / 10.1016 / j. ympev. 2005.07.012"]}

Stenodactylus arabicus (Haas, 1957) HOLOTYPE. CAS 84321. TYPE LOCALITY. Abqaiq, Eastern Region, Saudi Arabia. DISTRIBUTION. The southeastern Arabian Peninsula (Yemen, Saudi Arabia, Oman, UAE, Qatar, Kuwait, Iran). DISTRIBUTION IN IRAN. Fig 63. Known only from one recently recorded locality in Khuzestan Prov. (Fathinia et al. 2014). HABITAT. Areas of windblown sand and sand dunes with sparse shrubby vegetation. REMARKS. A sister species to S. sharqiyahensis Metallinou & Carranza from eastern Oman (Metallinou & Carranza 2013). REFERENCES. Arnold (1980a); Metallinou et al. (2012); Metallinou & Carranza (2013); Fathinia et al. (2014)., Published as part of Šmíd, Jiří, Moravec, Jiří, Kodym, Petr, Kratochvíl, Lukáš, Yousefkhani, Seyyed Saeed Hosseinian, Rastegar-Pouyani, Eskandar & Frynta, Daniel, 2014, Annotated checklist and distribution of the lizards of Iran, pp. 1-97 in Zootaxa 3855 (1) on page 25, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3855.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/4929701, {"references":["Haas, G. (1957) Some amphibians and reptiles from Arabia. Proceedings of the California Academy of Sciences, 29, 47 - 86.","Fathinia, B., Gholamifard, A. & Rastegar-Pouyani, N. (2014) First record of Stenodactylus arabicus (Haas, 1957) from Iran. Herpetozoa, 26, 169 - 173.","Metallinou, M. & Carranza, S. (2013) New species of Stenodactylus (Squamata: Gekkonidae) from the Sharqiyah Sands in northeastern Oman. Zootaxa, 3745 (4), 449 - 468. http: // dx. doi. org / 10.11646 / zootaxa. 3745.4.3","Arnold, E. N. (1980 a) Reptiles of Saudi Arabia. A review of the lizard genus Stenodactylus (Reptilia: Gekkonidae). Fauna of Saudi Arabia, 2, 368 - 404.","Metallinou, M., Arnold, E. N., Crochet, P. A., Geniez, P., Brito, J. C., Lymberakis, P., Baha El Din, S., Sindaco, R., Robinson, M. & Carranza, S. (2012) Conquering the Sahara and Arabian deserts: systematics and biogeography of Stenodactylus geckos (Reptilia: Gekkonidae). BMC Evolutionary Biology, 12, 258. http: // dx. doi. org / 10.1186 / 1471 - 2148 - 12 - 258"]}

Crossobamon eversmanni (Wiegmann, 1834) HOLOTYPE. ZMB 435. TYPE LOCALITY. Agytme, Kyzyl-Kum Desert, Uzbekistan. DISTRIBUTION. Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Turkmenistan, Tajikistan, Afghanistan, NE Iran, W Pakistan. DISTRIBUTION IN IRAN. Fig. 32. The easternmost provinces by the Afghan borders (Khorasan Razavi, South Khorasan, Sistan and Baluchistan Prov.). HABITAT. A psammophilous species bound to sandy habitats, even sand dunes but stabilized with shrubby vegetation (Convolvulus, Haloxylon, Salivornia) (Szczerbak & Golubev 1996). REMARKS. There are disputes concerning the validity of the taxon lumsdenii (Boulenger) from northern Baluchistan. Anderson (1999) places it in the synonymy of Bunopus tuberculatus whereas Szczerbak & Golubev (1986, 1996) consider it a subspecies of C. eversmanni. In addition, the latter authors place (without examining the types) an Afghan taxon C. maynardi Smith in the synonymy of C. eversmanni. Recent authors follow Szczerbak & Golubev’s taxonomy and use the trinomen C. e. lumsdenii (Bauer et al. 2013; Khani et al. 2013). REFERENCES. Szczerbak & Golubev (1996); Anderson (1999); Bauer et al. (2013); Khani et al. (2013)., Published as part of Šmíd, Jiří, Moravec, Jiří, Kodym, Petr, Kratochvíl, Lukáš, Yousefkhani, Seyyed Saeed Hosseinian, Rastegar-Pouyani, Eskandar & Frynta, Daniel, 2014, Annotated checklist and distribution of the lizards of Iran, pp. 1-97 in Zootaxa 3855 (1) on page 16, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3855.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/4929701, {"references":["Wiegmann, A. F. A. (1834) Herpetologia Mexicana, seu descriptio amphibiorum novae hispaniae, quae itineribus comitis de Sack, Ferdinandi Deppe et Chr. Guil. Schiede im Museum Zoologicum Berolinense Pervenerunt. Pars prima, saurorum species. Luderitz, Berlin, iv + 54 pp.","Szczerbak, N. N. & Golubev, M. L. (1996) Gecko fauna of the USSR and contiguous regions. Society for the Study of Amphibians and Reptiles, Oxfor, Ohio, 233 pp.","Anderson, S. C. (1999) The lizards of Iran. Society for the Study of Amphibians and Reptiles, Oxford, Ohio, 442 pp.","Szczerbak, N. N. & Golubev, M. L. (1986) The Gecko Fauna of the USSR and Adjacent Regions. Nauka Dymka, Kiev, 232 pp., 8 pls. [in Russian]","Bauer, A. M., Masroor, R., Titus-Mcquillan, J., Heinicke, M. P., Daza, J. D. & Jackman, T. R. (2013) A preliminary phylogeny of the Palearctic naked-toed geckos (Reptilia: Squamata: Gekkonidae) with taxonomic implications. Zootaxa, 3599 (4), 301 - 324. http: // dx. doi. org / 10.11646 / zootaxa. 3599.4.1","Khani, A., Yousefi, M., Sheykhi, S., Sheykhi, A., Hosseinian Yousefkhani, S. S. & Rastegar-Pouyani, E. (2013) New record of the gecko Crossobamon eversmanni lumsdeni (Boulenger, 1887) from Parvand Protected Area, Khorasan Razavi province, in eastern Iran. Herpetology Notes, 6, 101 - 102."]}

Tenuidactylus longipes (Nikolsky, 1896) LECTOTYPE. ZIL 8810, designated by Szczerbak & Golubev (1986). TYPE LOCALITY. Neh [Nehbandan], South Khorasan Prov., Iran. DISTRIBUTION. Turkmenistan, E Iran, W Afghanistan. DISTRIBUTION IN IRAN. Fig. 66. Border region by Afghanistan and Pakistan (Khorasan Razavi, South Khorasan, Sistan and Baluchistan Prov.); two records from the central deserts (extreme eastern Yazd and Khorasan Razavi Prov.). HABITAT. Iranian specimens were collected on walls of mud-brick buildings and between rocks on bare, rocky hills in dry, open country (Anderson 1999). REMARKS. The Iranian populations are assigned to the subspecies T. l. longipes. Tenuidactylus voraginosus (Leviton & Anderson), an Afghan species previously considered a subspecies of T. longipes, is now regarded a full species (Bauer et al. 2013). REFERENCES. Leviton & Anderson (1984); Szczerbak & Golubev (1986, 1996); Anderson (1999); Bauer et al. (2013)., Published as part of Šmíd, Jiří, Moravec, Jiří, Kodym, Petr, Kratochvíl, Lukáš, Yousefkhani, Seyyed Saeed Hosseinian, Rastegar-Pouyani, Eskandar & Frynta, Daniel, 2014, Annotated checklist and distribution of the lizards of Iran, pp. 1-97 in Zootaxa 3855 (1) on page 26, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3855.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/4929701, {"references":["Nikolsky, A. M. (1896) Diagnoses Reptilium et Amphibiorum novorum in Persia orientali a N. Zarudny collectorum. Annuaire Musee Zoologique de l'Academie Imperiale des Sciences de St. - Petersbourg, 1, 369 - 372.","Szczerbak, N. N. & Golubev, M. L. (1986) The Gecko Fauna of the USSR and Adjacent Regions. Nauka Dymka, Kiev, 232 pp., 8 pls. [in Russian]","Anderson, S. C. (1999) The lizards of Iran. Society for the Study of Amphibians and Reptiles, Oxford, Ohio, 442 pp.","Bauer, A. M., Masroor, R., Titus-Mcquillan, J., Heinicke, M. P., Daza, J. D. & Jackman, T. R. (2013) A preliminary phylogeny of the Palearctic naked-toed geckos (Reptilia: Squamata: Gekkonidae) with taxonomic implications. Zootaxa, 3599 (4), 301 - 324. http: // dx. doi. org / 10.11646 / zootaxa. 3599.4.1","Leviton, A. E. & Anderson, S. C. (1984) Description of a new species of Cyrtodactylus from Afghanistan with remarks on the status of Gymnodactylus longipes and Cyrtodactylus fedtschenkoi. Journal of Herpetology, 18, 270 - 276. http: // dx. doi. org / 10.2307 / 1564080","Szczerbak, N. N. & Golubev, M. L. (1996) Gecko fauna of the USSR and contiguous regions. Society for the Study of Amphibians and Reptiles, Oxfor, Ohio, 233 pp."]}

Mediodactylus heterocercum (Blanford, 1874) LECTOTYPE. TZM R2532, designated by Szczerbak & Golubev (1986). TYPE LOCALITY. “ Hamadán in Persia occidentali” [= Hamadan, Hamadan Prov., Iran]. DISTRIBUTION. Turkey, Syria, Iraq, Iran. DISTRIBUTION IN IRAN. Fig. 49. West of the Zagros, most records are from Ilam, Lorestan, Kermanshah, and Hamadan Prov. There is an isolated record from Persepolis (Fars Prov.) doubted by many authors (Szczerbak & Golubev 1996; Anderson 1999; Sindaco & Jeremčenko 2008), but latest findings confirm the presence of M. heterocercum also in Esfahan Prov. (Rastegar-Pouyani et al. 2009a) and make this record more plausible. The Iranian part of the species range is occupied by the nominotypical subspecies; Turkey, Syria, and Iraq are inhabited by M. h. mardinensis Mertens. HABITAT. Occurs on boulders or under stones in rocky areas but also on walls of both abandoned and inhabited buildings. REFERENCES. Szczerbak & Golubev (1986, 1996); Anderson (1999); Fathinia et al. (2009); Rastegar-Pouyani et al. (2009a); Rösler et al. (2012)., Published as part of Šmíd, Jiří, Moravec, Jiří, Kodym, Petr, Kratochvíl, Lukáš, Yousefkhani, Seyyed Saeed Hosseinian, Rastegar-Pouyani, Eskandar & Frynta, Daniel, 2014, Annotated checklist and distribution of the lizards of Iran, pp. 1-97 in Zootaxa 3855 (1) on page 21, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3855.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/4929701, {"references":["Szczerbak, N. N. & Golubev, M. L. (1986) The Gecko Fauna of the USSR and Adjacent Regions. Nauka Dymka, Kiev, 232 pp., 8 pls. [in Russian]","Szczerbak, N. N. & Golubev, M. L. (1996) Gecko fauna of the USSR and contiguous regions. Society for the Study of Amphibians and Reptiles, Oxfor, Ohio, 233 pp.","Anderson, S. C. (1999) The lizards of Iran. Society for the Study of Amphibians and Reptiles, Oxford, Ohio, 442 pp.","Sindaco, R. & Jeremcenko, V. K. (2008) The reptiles of the Western Palearctic. 1. Annotated checklist and distributional atlas of the turtles, crocodiles, amphisbaenians and lizards of Europe, North Africa, Middle East and Central Asia. Monografie della Societas Herpetologica Italica, Edizioni Belvedere, 579 pp.","Rastegar-Pouyani, N., Oraei, H. & Johari, M. (2009 a) New records of the geckonid lizard, Cyrtopodion heterocercum heterocercum (Sauria: Gekkonidae) from Isfahan Province, Central Iran, with an extended descritpion and notes on distribution. Russian Journal of Herpetology, 16, 220 - 228.","Fathinia, B., Rastegar-Pouyani, N., Sampour, M., Bahrami, A. M. & Jaafari, G. (2009) The lizard fauna of the Ilam province, southwestern Iran. Iranian Journal of Animal Biosystematics, 5, 65 - 79.","Rosler, H., Schmidtler, J. F. & Moravec, J. (2012) Bemerkungen zu einigen Unterarten von Mediodactylus kotschyi (Steindachner, 1870) und Mediodactylus heterocercus mardinensis (Mertens, 1924) in der sudlichen Turkei und in angrenzenden Gebieten (Squamata: Sauria: Gekkonidae). Herpetozoa, 25, 25 - 46."]}

Pseudoceramodactylus Haas, 1957 Pseudoceramodactylus is a monotypic genus. Kluge (1967) synonymized it with Stenodactylus, but Fujita and Papenfuss (2011) based on molecular data resurrected the original genus name which is in agreement with the latest phylogenetic studies (Metallinou et al. 2012; Pyron et al. 2013)., Published as part of Šmíd, Jiří, Moravec, Jiří, Kodym, Petr, Kratochvíl, Lukáš, Yousefkhani, Seyyed Saeed Hosseinian, Rastegar-Pouyani, Eskandar & Frynta, Daniel, 2014, Annotated checklist and distribution of the lizards of Iran, pp. 1-97 in Zootaxa 3855 (1) on page 24, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3855.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/4929701, {"references":["Haas, G. (1957) Some amphibians and reptiles from Arabia. Proceedings of the California Academy of Sciences, 29, 47 - 86.","Kluge, A. G. (1967) Higher taxonomic categories of Gekkonid lizards and their evolution. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History, 135, 1 - 60.","Fujita, M. K. & Papenfuss, T. J. (2011) Molecular systematics of Stenodactylus (Gekkonidae), an Afro-Arabian gecko species complex. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution, 58, 71 - 75. http: // dx. doi. org / 10.1016 / j. ympev. 2010.10.014","Metallinou, M., Arnold, E. N., Crochet, P. A., Geniez, P., Brito, J. C., Lymberakis, P., Baha El Din, S., Sindaco, R., Robinson, M. & Carranza, S. (2012) Conquering the Sahara and Arabian deserts: systematics and biogeography of Stenodactylus geckos (Reptilia: Gekkonidae). BMC Evolutionary Biology, 12, 258. http: // dx. doi. org / 10.1186 / 1471 - 2148 - 12 - 258","Pyron, R., Burbrink, F. & Wiens, J. (2013) A phylogeny and revised classification of Squamata, including 4161 species of lizards and snakes. BMC Evolutionary Biology, 13, 93. http: // dx. doi. org / 10.1186 / 1471 - 2148 - 13 - 93"]}

Mediodactylus ilamensis (Fathinia, Karamiani, Darvishnia, Heidari & Rastegar-Pouyani, 2011) HOLOTYPE. RUZM-GC120.1. TYPE LOCALITY. Zarin-Abad region, Dehloran Township, Ilam Prov., Iran. DISTRIBUTION. Endemic to Iran. DISTRIBUTION IN IRAN. Fig. 51. Known only from two specimens from the type locality. HABITAT. The type locality lies in an area of gypsum and lime deposits and is covered with different vegetation types mainly including grasses, bushes and shrubs (Capparidaceae: Capparis spinosa, Cleome oxypetala; Caryophyllaceae: Gypsophyla linearifolia, G. pallida; Chenopodiaceae: Halocharis sulphurea, Noaea mucronata, Salsola imbricate; Compositae: Achillea conferta; Rosaceae: Amygdalus arabica), and sparse trees (Pistachia atlantica and Quercus brantii). The specimens were collected on foothills heavily grazed by sheep and goats. REMARKS. Originally described under the genus Carinatogecko. For discussion on synonymization with Mediodactylus see Bauer et al. (2013) and remarks by M. heteropholis above. REFERENCES. Fathinia et al. (2011a); Bauer et al. (2013)., Published as part of Šmíd, Jiří, Moravec, Jiří, Kodym, Petr, Kratochvíl, Lukáš, Yousefkhani, Seyyed Saeed Hosseinian, Rastegar-Pouyani, Eskandar & Frynta, Daniel, 2014, Annotated checklist and distribution of the lizards of Iran, pp. 1-97 in Zootaxa 3855 (1) on pages 21-22, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3855.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/4929701, {"references":["Fathinia, B., Karamiani, R., Darvishnia, H., Heidari, N. & Rastegar-Pouyani, N. (2011 a) A new species of Carinatogecko (Sauria: Gekkonidae) from Ilam Province, western Iran. Amphibian and Reptile Conservation, 5, 61 - 74.","Bauer, A. M., Masroor, R., Titus-Mcquillan, J., Heinicke, M. P., Daza, J. D. & Jackman, T. R. (2013) A preliminary phylogeny of the Palearctic naked-toed geckos (Reptilia: Squamata: Gekkonidae) with taxonomic implications. Zootaxa, 3599 (4), 301 - 324. http: // dx. doi. org / 10.11646 / zootaxa. 3599.4.1"]}

Cyrtopodion kachhense (Stoliczka, 1872) LECTOTYPE. ZSI 5162, designated by Annandale (1913). TYPE LOCALITY. Kachh Prov., South-east of Sind, between the eastern branches of the Indus and Kathíwár [S Pakistan or NW India].The lectotype designated by Annandale (1913) remains valid despite the later lectotype designation made by Szczerbak & Golubev (1986). DISTRIBUTION. Pakistan, India, Iran. DISTRIBUTION IN IRAN. Fig. 38. The only known record from Bushehr is considered doubtful by many authors (Anderson 1999; Rastegar-Pouyani et al. 2008; Sindaco & Jeremčenko 2008). The species has never been confirmed from Iran again and is claimed that it might have been introduced there. HABITAT. No information for the Iranian specimen available. In Pakistan reported from hard rocky terrain where it lives in cracks and holes in the ground and also colonizes nearby houses (Khan 2006). REFERENCES. Annandale (1913); Szczerbak & Golubev (1986, 1996); Anderson (1999)., Published as part of Šmíd, Jiří, Moravec, Jiří, Kodym, Petr, Kratochvíl, Lukáš, Yousefkhani, Seyyed Saeed Hosseinian, Rastegar-Pouyani, Eskandar & Frynta, Daniel, 2014, Annotated checklist and distribution of the lizards of Iran, pp. 1-97 in Zootaxa 3855 (1) on page 18, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3855.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/4929701, {"references":["Annandale, N. (1913) The Indian geckos of the genus Gymnodactylus. Records of the Indian Museum, Calcutta, 9, 309 - 326.","Szczerbak, N. N. & Golubev, M. L. (1986) The Gecko Fauna of the USSR and Adjacent Regions. Nauka Dymka, Kiev, 232 pp., 8 pls. [in Russian]","Anderson, S. C. (1999) The lizards of Iran. Society for the Study of Amphibians and Reptiles, Oxford, Ohio, 442 pp.","Rastegar-Pouyani, N., Kami, H. G., Rajabzadeh, M., Shafiei, S. & Anderson, S. C. (2008) Annotated checklist of Amphibians and Reptiles of Iran. Iranian Journal of Animal Biosystematics, 4, 43 - 66.","Sindaco, R. & Jeremcenko, V. K. (2008) The reptiles of the Western Palearctic. 1. Annotated checklist and distributional atlas of the turtles, crocodiles, amphisbaenians and lizards of Europe, North Africa, Middle East and Central Asia. Monografie della Societas Herpetologica Italica, Edizioni Belvedere, 579 pp.","Khan, M. S. (2006) Amphibians and Reptiles of Pakistan. Krieger Publishing Company, Malabar, Florida, 311 pp.","Szczerbak, N. N. & Golubev, M. L. (1996) Gecko fauna of the USSR and contiguous regions. Society for the Study of Amphibians and Reptiles, Oxfor, Ohio, 233 pp."]}

Microgecko helenae Nikolsky, 1907 LECTOTYPE. ZIL 10242, designated by Szczerbak & Golubev (1986); Holotype ZSM 501 /68 (M. h. fasciatus). TYPE LOCALITY. Syntypes collected at Alchorschir [Alkhorshid], Aguljaschker [Ab-e Lashkar? (locality position based on map by Szczerbak & Golubev (1996), Fig. 52)], Isfagan [Esfahan], and Bidezar [Bid Zard]; restricted to Bid Zard by Schmidtler & Schmidtler (1972) who, however, did not designate any lectotype, and again to Alkhorshid by Szczerbak & Golubev (1986) by lectotype designation. Therefore the restriction made by Szczerbak & Golubev is valid. DISTRIBUTION. Endemic to Iran. DISTRIBUTION IN IRAN. Fig. 56. The Mesopotamian Plain and western foothills of the Zagros (Kermanshah, Ilam, Lorestan, Markazi, Khuzestan, Esfahan, Kohgiluyeh and Boyer Ahmad, and Fars Prov.). A single record (SUHC collection) from Sistan and Baluchistan Prov. is dubious. HABITAT. Collected in an area characterized by rolling hills with limestone and gypsum outcroppings, ground with flat stones and vegetation consisting of scattered grasses, mosses, thorny shrubs, euphorbs, and scattered oaks. REMARKS. Microgecko h. fasciatus (Schmidtler & Schmidtler) (type locality Dize [Sorkheh Dizeh], Kermanshah Prov.) occurs in the NW portion of the species range. However, it overlaps with the nominotypical subspecies in Lorestan Prov. Two records from the CUP collection from the central and southern part of the distribution have a high number of dorsal scales (character of M. h. fasciatus), indicating that this trait characterizes more intraspecific individual variability and that the subspecies M. h. fasciatus may not be valid, as also stated by Szczerbak & Golubev (1996). REFERENCES. Tuck (1971b); Schmidtler & Schmidtler (1972); Szczerbak & Golubev (1986, 1996); Anderson (1999); Torki (2007b); Torki & Gharzi (2008); Karamiani & Rastegar-Pouyani (2012)., Published as part of Šmíd, Jiří, Moravec, Jiří, Kodym, Petr, Kratochvíl, Lukáš, Yousefkhani, Seyyed Saeed Hosseinian, Rastegar-Pouyani, Eskandar & Frynta, Daniel, 2014, Annotated checklist and distribution of the lizards of Iran, pp. 1-97 in Zootaxa 3855 (1) on page 23, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3855.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/4929701, {"references":["Nikolsky, A. M. (1907) Reptiles and Amphibians collected by N. A. Zarudny in Persia 1903 - 1904 [in Russian]. Annuaire Musee Zoologique de l'Academie Imperiale des Sciences de St. - Petersbourg, 10, 260 - 301.","Szczerbak, N. N. & Golubev, M. L. (1986) The Gecko Fauna of the USSR and Adjacent Regions. Nauka Dymka, Kiev, 232 pp., 8 pls. [in Russian]","Szczerbak, N. N. & Golubev, M. L. (1996) Gecko fauna of the USSR and contiguous regions. Society for the Study of Amphibians and Reptiles, Oxfor, Ohio, 233 pp.","Schmidtler, J. J. & Schmidtler, J. F. (1972) Zwergekkos aus dem Zagros-Gebirge (Iran). Salamandra, 8, 59 - 66.","Tuck, R. G. (1971 b) Rediscovery and redescription of the Khuzistan dwarf gecko, Microgecko helenae Nikolsky. Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington, 83, 477 - 482.","Anderson, S. C. (1999) The lizards of Iran. Society for the Study of Amphibians and Reptiles, Oxford, Ohio, 442 pp.","Torki, F. (2007 b) Sexual dimorphism in the banded dwarf gecko Tropiocolotes helenae fasciatus (Gekkonidae) on the western Iranian plateau. Zoology in the Middle East, 40, 33 - 38. http: // dx. doi. org / 10.1080 / 09397140.2007.10638201","Torki, F. & Gharzi, A. (2008) Morphologische und okologische Aspekte von Tropiocolotes helenae (Nikolsky, 1907) (Reptilia: Gekkonidae). Sauria, 30, 13 - 20.","Karamiani, R. & Rastegar-Pouyani, N. (2012) Westernmost record of Khuzestan dwarf gecko Tropiocolotes helenae helenae (Nikolsky, 1907) (Sauria: Gekkonidae) from Kermanshah Province, western Iran. Russian Journal of Herpetology, 19, 212 - 216."]}

Mediodactylus Szczerbak & Golubev, 1977 Mediodactylus aspratilis (Anderson, 1973) HOLOTYPE. USNM 193961. TYPE LOCALITY. 35 km E Gach Saran, Fars Prov., Iran. DISTRIBUTION. Endemic to Iran. DISTRIBUTION IN IRAN. Fig. 48. SW Iran W of the Zagros. This gecko was for long thought to be distributed only in Fars and Kohgiluyeh and Boyer Ahmad Prov. (Anderson 1999; Sindaco & Jeremčenko 2008), but recent extensive field work in western Iran resulted in numerous new records from Kermanshah, Hamadan, and Lorestan Prov. (Kami 1999; Nazari-Serenjeh & Torki 2008a; Torki 2010b; Karamiani & Rastegar-Pouyani 2011). HABITAT. Rocky Zagros foothill regions with sparse vegetation where the geckos seek for shelter in rock crevices and between boulders; also found on a wall of a residential building (Kami 1999; Karamiani & Rastegar-Pouyani 2011). REMARKS. Originally described as Bunopus, but later on reassigned to the genus Carinatogecko (Golubev & Szczerbak 1981), which has been, in turn, synonymized with Mediodactylus by Červenka et al. (2010). However, many authors do not accept this later synonymization and consider Carinatogecko a valid genus (see comments by Torki (2011)), but without any support from phylogenetic analyses. Based on a distribution of key characters among examined specimens, Červenka et al. (2010) also tentatively concluded that M. aspratilis might be a junior synonym of M. heteropholis. REFERENCES. Anderson (1973, 1999); Golubev & Szczerbak (1981); Kami (1999); Nazari-Serenjeh & Torki (2008a); Červenka et al. (2010); Karamiani & Rastegar-Pouyani (2011)., Published as part of Šmíd, Jiří, Moravec, Jiří, Kodym, Petr, Kratochvíl, Lukáš, Yousefkhani, Seyyed Saeed Hosseinian, Rastegar-Pouyani, Eskandar & Frynta, Daniel, 2014, Annotated checklist and distribution of the lizards of Iran, pp. 1-97 in Zootaxa 3855 (1) on pages 20-21, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3855.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/4929701, {"references":["Anderson, S. C. (1973) A new species of Bunopus from Iran and a key to lizards of the genus Bunopus. Herpetologica, 29, 355 - 358.","Anderson, S. C. (1999) The lizards of Iran. Society for the Study of Amphibians and Reptiles, Oxford, Ohio, 442 pp.","Sindaco, R. & Jeremcenko, V. K. (2008) The reptiles of the Western Palearctic. 1. Annotated checklist and distributional atlas of the turtles, crocodiles, amphisbaenians and lizards of Europe, North Africa, Middle East and Central Asia. Monografie della Societas Herpetologica Italica, Edizioni Belvedere, 579 pp.","Kami, H. G. (1999) A new record of Carinatogecko aspratilis in Iran. Zoology in the Middle East, 17, 15 - 20. http: // dx. doi. org / 10.1080 / 09397140.1999.10637766","Nazari-Serenjeh, F. & Torki, F. (2008 a) Einige okologische Aspekte von Carinatogecko aspratilis (Anderson, 1973) (Gekkonidae: Reptilia). Sauria, 30, 23 - 28.","Torki, F. (2010 b) Die Andreas-Zornatter Hierophis andreanus (Werner, 1917) im Westen des Iran. Sauria, 32, 27 - 32.","Rastegar-Pouyani, N., Karamiani, R., Oraei, H., Khosrawani, A. & Rastegar-Pouyani, E. (2011 b) A New Subspecies of Darevskia raddei (Boettger, 1892) (Sauria: Lacertidae) from the West Azerbaijan Province, Iran. Asian Herpetological Research, 2, 216 - 222. http: // dx. doi. org / 10.3724 / sp. j. 1245.2011.00216","Golubev, M. L. & Szczerbak, N. N. (1981) Carinatogecko gen. n. (Reptilia, Gekkonidae) - a new gecko genus from southwestern Asia. Vestnik Zoologii, 1981, 34 - 41. [in Russian]"]}

Hemidactylus persicus Anderson, 1872 HOLOTYPE. ZSI 5961. TYPE LOCALITY. Originally Persia; restricted to Shiraz, Fars Prov. by Smith (1935). DISTRIBUTION. Countries by the Persian Gulf—from Iraq, Kuwait, Saudi Arabia, UAE, Oman, Iran to Pakistan and India. DISTRIBUTION IN IRAN. Fig. 45. About 300 km wide belt along the Persian Gulf coast in Ilam, Lorestan, Khuzestan, Fars, Bushehr, Hormozgan, and Sistan and Baluchistan Prov. HABITAT. Inhabits trees, rocks and building wall in xerophytic areas. Anderson (1999) collected his specimens at night on surfaced roads. In Qatar found on the ground under wood, rocks and dry leaves (Castilla et al. 2013). REMARKS. Deep intraspecific diversification within Iranian specimens of H. persicus (Šmíd et al. 2013a) and its close relation with an unidentified species from NW India (Bauer et al. 2010) indicate that H. persicus forms a complex of several cryptic species that needs to be revised with material from other parts of the species’ distribution. REFERENCES. Anderson (1999); Gholamifard & Rastegar-Pouyani (2011); Heidari et al. (2011); Šmíd et al. (2013a)., Published as part of Šmíd, Jiří, Moravec, Jiří, Kodym, Petr, Kratochvíl, Lukáš, Yousefkhani, Seyyed Saeed Hosseinian, Rastegar-Pouyani, Eskandar & Frynta, Daniel, 2014, Annotated checklist and distribution of the lizards of Iran, pp. 1-97 in Zootaxa 3855 (1) on pages 19-20, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3855.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/4929701, {"references":["Anderson, J. (1872) On some Persian, Himalayan, and other reptiles. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London, 2, 371 - 404.","Smith, M. A. (1935) The fauna of British India, including Ceylon and Burma. Reptilia and Amphibia. Vol. II. Sauria. Taylor and Francis, Ltd., Red Lion Court, Fleet Street, London, 440 pp. [Reprint Edition 1974, Today and Tomorrow's Printers and Publishers]","Anderson, S. C. (1999) The lizards of Iran. Society for the Study of Amphibians and Reptiles, Oxford, Ohio, 442 pp.","Castilla, A. M., Valdeon, A., Cogalniceanu, D., Gosa, A., Alkuwary, A., Saifelnasr, E. O. H., Al Naimi, S. & Al-Hemaidi, A. A. M. (2013) First record of a gecko species to the fauna of Qatar: Hemidactylus persicus Anderson, 1872 (Gekkonidae). QScience Connect, 2013, 28. http: // dx. doi. org / 10.5339 / connect. 2013.28","Smid, J., Carranza, S., Kratochvil, L., Gvozdik, V., Nasher, A. K. & Moravec, J. (2013 a) Out of Arabia: A Complex Biogeographic History of Multiple Vicariance and Dispersal Events in the Gecko Genus Hemidactylus (Reptilia: Gekkonidae). PLoS ONE, 8, e 64018. http: // dx. doi. org / 10.1371 / journal. pone. 0064018","Bauer, A. M., Jackman, T. R., Greenbaum, E., Giri, V. B. & de Silva, A. (2010) South Asia supports a major endemic radiation of Hemidactylus geckos. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution, 57, 343 - 352. http: // dx. doi. org / 10.1016 / j. ympev. 2010.06.014","Gholamifard, A. & Rastegar-Pouyani, N. (2011) Distribution of Hemidactylus geckos (Reptilia: Gekkonidae) in Fars Province, Southern Iran. Amphibian and Reptile Conservation, 5, 1 - 5.","Heidari, N., Faizi, H. & Rastegar-Pouyani, N. (2011) Sexual dimorphism in the Persian Gecko, Hemidactylus persicus Anderson, 1872, in Hormozgan Province, Southern Iran. Zoology in the Middle East, 53, 35 - 40. http: // dx. doi. org / 10.1080 / 09397140.2011.10648860"]}

Bunopus tuberculatus Blanford, 1874 LECTOTYPE. BMNH 1946.8.22.84 (ex. BMNH 74.11.23.85), designated by Szczerbak & Golubev (1986). TYPE LOCALITY. Originally “Gedrosia Persiaque meridionali” (Blanford 1874), restricted to Baluchistan by Smith (1935); further restricted to “near Bampur, Baluchistan ” by Szczerbak & Golubev (1986). DISTRIBUTION. The whole of the Arabian Peninsula, Levant, Iraq, Iran, SW Afghanistan, Pakistan. DISTRIBUTION IN IRAN. Fig. 31. From the Mesopotamian plain in Khuzestan to Bushehr Prov.; the Iranian Plateau from S of the Kopet Dagh to the coastal areas around the Strait of Hormuz and Gulf of Oman. Absent from the Zagros mountain range. HABITAT. Usually sandy habitats from blowing sand dunes to sand mixed with gravel or pastures, associated with desert and steppe vegetation such as Tamarix (Anderson 1999). REMARKS. There are large genetic distances between populations from central and SE Iran, the latter being closely related to the populations from Syria and Kuwait (Červenka et al. 2008). This intraspecific diversification which is similar to that between B. tuberculatus and B. crassicauda suggests a cryptic diversity of Bunopus geckos with potentially undescribed species in the central part of its range. REFERENCES. Szczerbak & Golubev (1986, 1996); Anderson (1999); Červenka et al. (2008); Bauer et al. (2013); Kamali & Mozaffari (2013)., Published as part of Šmíd, Jiří, Moravec, Jiří, Kodym, Petr, Kratochvíl, Lukáš, Yousefkhani, Seyyed Saeed Hosseinian, Rastegar-Pouyani, Eskandar & Frynta, Daniel, 2014, Annotated checklist and distribution of the lizards of Iran, pp. 1-97 in Zootaxa 3855 (1) on pages 15-16, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3855.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/4929701, {"references":["Szczerbak, N. N. & Golubev, M. L. (1986) The Gecko Fauna of the USSR and Adjacent Regions. Nauka Dymka, Kiev, 232 pp., 8 pls. [in Russian]","Smith, M. A. (1935) The fauna of British India, including Ceylon and Burma. Reptilia and Amphibia. Vol. II. Sauria. Taylor and Francis, Ltd., Red Lion Court, Fleet Street, London, 440 pp. [Reprint Edition 1974, Today and Tomorrow's Printers and Publishers]","Anderson, S. C. (1999) The lizards of Iran. Society for the Study of Amphibians and Reptiles, Oxford, Ohio, 442 pp.","Cervenka, J., Kratochvil, L. & Frynta, D. (2008) Phylogeny and taxonomy of the Middle Eastern geckos of the genus Cyrtopodion and their selected relatives. Zootaxa, 1931, 25 - 36.","Szczerbak, N. N. & Golubev, M. L. (1996) Gecko fauna of the USSR and contiguous regions. Society for the Study of Amphibians and Reptiles, Oxfor, Ohio, 233 pp.","Bauer, A. M., Masroor, R., Titus-Mcquillan, J., Heinicke, M. P., Daza, J. D. & Jackman, T. R. (2013) A preliminary phylogeny of the Palearctic naked-toed geckos (Reptilia: Squamata: Gekkonidae) with taxonomic implications. Zootaxa, 3599 (4), 301 - 324. http: // dx. doi. org / 10.11646 / zootaxa. 3599.4.1","Kamali, K. & Mozaffari, O. (2013) New data on the distribution of thick-tailed tuberculate gecko, Bunopus crassicauda (Sauria: Gekkonidae) in Iran. Herpetology Notes, 6, 281 - 283."]}

Hemidactylus romeshkanicus Torki, Manthey & Barts, 2011 HOLOTYPE. ZMB 75020. TYPE LOCALITY. Western slope of the central Zagros Mountains, Romeshkan region, Lorestan Prov., Iran. DISTRIBUTION. Endemic to Iran. DISTRIBUTION IN IRAN. Fig. 47. Known only from the type locality in Lorestan Prov. HABITAT. The only available information says the habitat “...is mountainous and covered with scattered oak forest. The specimen... was found under a large stone.” (Torki et al. 2011a). REMARKS. The species is believed to be a member of the arid clade of Hemidactylus (Šmíd et al. 2013a). REFERENCES. Torki et al. (2011a).

Tropiocolotes sp. DISTRIBUTION. Known only from S Iran. DISTRIBUTION IN IRAN. Fig. 69. Fars, Bushehr, and Hormozgan Prov. including Qeshm Island. HABITAT. Mainland Iranian localities are situated in coastal sedimentary steppe between the Zagros and the sea. The inland localities reported by Rajabizadeh et al. (2010b) were of various vegetation and soil type, a steep flood plain with sandy soil admixed with sandstone and sparse vegetation dominated by Acacia and Ziziphus trees, a salty clayey valley with a sparsely scattered Tamarix, and a highly eroded mountain side plain characterized by sandy to clayey soil and sparse vegetation comprising Halocnemum, Salsola, and Salsoletum shrubs and Acacia, Calotropis, Prosopsis, and Ziziphus trees. REMARKS. This species has been referred to as T. cf. steudneri in previous studies. After the populations from the central Saudi Arabia were recognized as a separate species, T. wolfgangboehmei Wilms, Shobrak & Wagner, and the distribution of T. steudneri (Peters) was confined to Africa (Wilms et al. 2010; Sindaco et al. 2013) it became obvious that it is zoogeographically extremely unlikely that the Iranian populations belong to T. steudneri. Moreover, recent morphological analysis recovered this species very distinct from T. steudneri, being closer to T. wolfgangboehmei and T. bisharicus (Krause et al. 2013). Based on this evidence we therefore do not consider this species even closely related to T. steudneri. It still awaits its description. REFERENCES. Guibé (1966b); Anderson (1999); Kamali & Dakhteh (2006); Gholamifard et al. (2010); Rajabizadeh et al. (2010b); Wilms et al. (2010); Krause et al. (2013)., Published as part of Šmíd, Jiří, Moravec, Jiří, Kodym, Petr, Kratochvíl, Lukáš, Yousefkhani, Seyyed Saeed Hosseinian, Rastegar-Pouyani, Eskandar & Frynta, Daniel, 2014, Annotated checklist and distribution of the lizards of Iran, pp. 1-97 in Zootaxa 3855 (1) on page 27, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3855.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/4929701, {"references":["Rajabizadeh, M., Ghasemi, M., Faizi, H. & Rastegar-Pouyani, N. (2010 b) New data on Tropiocolotes cf. steudneri (Peters, 1869), (Sauria: Gekkonidae) in southern Iran. Russian Journal of Herpetology, 17, 214 - 218.","Wilms, T. M., Shobrak, M. & Wagner, P. (2010) A new species of the genus Tropiocolotes from Central Saudi Arabia (Reptilia: Sauria: Gekkonidae). Bonn zoological Bulletin, 57, 275 - 280.","Sindaco, R., Venchi, A. & Grieco, C. (2013) The Reptiles of the western Palearctic. 2. Annotated checklist and distributional atlas of the snakes of Europe, North Africa, Middle East and Central Asia, with an update to the Vol. 1. Monografie della Societas Herpetologica Italica, Edizioni Belvedere, 543 pp.","Krause, V., Ahmadzadeh, F., Moazeni, M., Wagner, P. & Wilms, T. M. (2013) A new species of the genus Tropiocolotes Peters, 1880 from western Iran (Squamata: Sauria: Gekkonidae). Zootaxa, 3716 (1), 22 - 038. http: // dx. doi. org / 10.11646 / zootaxa. 3716.1.2","Guibe, J. (1966 b) Reptiles et Amphibiens recoltes par la Mission Franco-Iranienne. Bulletin du Museum national d'Histoire naturelle, Paris, 38, 97 - 98.","Anderson, S. C. (1999) The lizards of Iran. Society for the Study of Amphibians and Reptiles, Oxford, Ohio, 442 pp.","Kamali, K. & Dakhteh, M. (2006) Tropiocolotes steudneri (Steudner's dwarf gecko). Herpetological Review, 37, 241 - 242.","Gholamifard, A., Gholamhosseini, A., Rastegar-Pouyani, N., Esmaeili, H. R. & Kami, H. G. (2010) First Records of Tropiocolotes steudneri Peters, 1869 and Hemidactylus flaviviridis Ruppell, 1840 (Sauria: Gekkonidae) from Fars Province, Iran. Asian Herpetological Research, 1, 61 - 63."]}

Cyrtopodion kiabii Ahmadzadeh, Flecks, Torki & Böhme, 2011 HOLOTYPE. ZFMK 91834. TYPE LOCALITY. 5 km SW of Nayband village at a distance of approx. 300 m to coast of Persian Gulf, Bushehr Prov., Iran. DISTRIBUTION. Endemic to Iran. DISTRIBUTION IN IRAN. Fig. 39. Coastal areas of Bushehr Prov. HABITAT. The types were found in two abandoned buildings in a cliffy area approximately 100 m from the Persian Gulf coast. REFERENCES. Ahmadzadeh et al. (2011)., Published as part of Šmíd, Jiří, Moravec, Jiří, Kodym, Petr, Kratochvíl, Lukáš, Yousefkhani, Seyyed Saeed Hosseinian, Rastegar-Pouyani, Eskandar & Frynta, Daniel, 2014, Annotated checklist and distribution of the lizards of Iran, pp. 1-97 in Zootaxa 3855 (1) on page 18, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3855.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/4929701, {"references":["Ahmadzadeh, F., Flecks, M., Torki, F. & Bohme, W. (2011) A new species of angular-toed gecko, genus Cyrtopodion (Squamata: Gekkonidae), from southern Iran. Zootaxa, 2924, 22 - 32."]}

Mediodactylus sagittifer (Nikolsky, 1900) LECTOTYPE. ZIL 9331, designated by Szczerbak & Golubev (1986). TYPE LOCALITY. Originally Bampur and Farra, SE Iran; restricted to Bampur, Sistan and Baluchistan Prov., Iran by Szczerbak & Golubev (1986). DISTRIBUTION. Iran and Pakistan. DISTRIBUTION IN IRAN. Fig. 53. Hormozgan and Sistan and Baluchistan Prov. HABITAT. Specimens were caught on tree trunks in an acacia forest and on a wall of a subterranean house (Szczerbak & Golubev 1996). REMARKS. Mediodactylus sagittifer is considered a younger synonym of Cyrtopodion brevipes by Nazarov et al. (2012). It was recovered as closely related to M. kotschyi (Červenka et al. 2008). REFERENCES. Szczerbak & Golubev (1986, 1996); Anderson (1999); Červenka et al. (2008); Červenka & Kratochvíl (2010)., Published as part of Šmíd, Jiří, Moravec, Jiří, Kodym, Petr, Kratochvíl, Lukáš, Yousefkhani, Seyyed Saeed Hosseinian, Rastegar-Pouyani, Eskandar & Frynta, Daniel, 2014, Annotated checklist and distribution of the lizards of Iran, pp. 1-97 in Zootaxa 3855 (1) on page 22, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3855.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/4929701, {"references":["Nikolsky, A. M. (1900) Reptiles, amphibies et poissons, recueillis pendant le voyage de Mr. N. A. Zaroudny en 1898 dans la Perse. Annuaire Musee Zoologique de l'Academie Imperiale des Sciences de St. - Petersbourg, 4,375 - 417.","Szczerbak, N. N. & Golubev, M. L. (1986) The Gecko Fauna of the USSR and Adjacent Regions. Nauka Dymka, Kiev, 232 pp., 8 pls. [in Russian]","Szczerbak, N. N. & Golubev, M. L. (1996) Gecko fauna of the USSR and contiguous regions. Society for the Study of Amphibians and Reptiles, Oxfor, Ohio, 233 pp.","Nazarov, R., Bondarenko, D. A. & Radjabizadeh, M. (2012) A new species of thin-toed geckos Cyrtopodion sensu lato (Squamata: Sauria: Gekkonidae) from Hormozgan province, South Iran. Russian Journal of Herpetology, 19, 292 - 298.","Cervenka, J., Kratochvil, L. & Frynta, D. (2008) Phylogeny and taxonomy of the Middle Eastern geckos of the genus Cyrtopodion and their selected relatives. Zootaxa, 1931, 25 - 36.","Anderson, S. C. (1999) The lizards of Iran. Society for the Study of Amphibians and Reptiles, Oxford, Ohio, 442 pp.","Cervenka, J. & Kratochvil, L. (2010) Generic reassignment and validity of the recently described species Cyrtopodion dehakroense. Herpetology Notes, 3, 135 - 137."]}

Bunopus crassicauda Nikolsky, 1907 LECTOTYPE. ZIL 10233, designated by Szczerbak & Golubev (1986). TYPE LOCALITY. Restricted to Khara-Magommed-Abad by lectotype designation by Szczerbak & Golubev (1986); originally Kum [= Qom], Maljat-Abad and Khara-Magommed-Abad, Irak-Adschemi Prov. [today Esfahan Prov.], Iran (Nikolsky 1907). DISTRIBUTION. Endemic to Iran. DISTRIBUTION IN IRAN. Fig. 30. Central Iranian Plateau in the area around Tehran, Qom, Esfahan, Yazd, and Kerman; also S of the Kopet Dagh. HABITAT. Cultivated alluvial plains, gravely and sandy areas with vegetation containing Alhagi, Artemisiam, Prosopis, and Tamarix (Mozaffari et al. 2011a). REMARKS. Bunopus crassicauda was confirmed to occur syntopically with B. tuberculatus in NE Iran (Kamali & Mozaffari 2013). REFERENCES. Szczerbak & Golubev (1986, 1996); Anderson (1999); Kamali & Mozaffari (2013)., Published as part of Šmíd, Jiří, Moravec, Jiří, Kodym, Petr, Kratochvíl, Lukáš, Yousefkhani, Seyyed Saeed Hosseinian, Rastegar-Pouyani, Eskandar & Frynta, Daniel, 2014, Annotated checklist and distribution of the lizards of Iran, pp. 1-97 in Zootaxa 3855 (1) on page 15, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3855.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/4929701, {"references":["Nikolsky, A. M. (1907) Reptiles and Amphibians collected by N. A. Zarudny in Persia 1903 - 1904 [in Russian]. Annuaire Musee Zoologique de l'Academie Imperiale des Sciences de St. - Petersbourg, 10, 260 - 301.","Szczerbak, N. N. & Golubev, M. L. (1986) The Gecko Fauna of the USSR and Adjacent Regions. Nauka Dymka, Kiev, 232 pp., 8 pls. [in Russian]","Mozaffari, O., Ghaffari, H., Kamali, K. & Safaei, B. (2011 a) New record of plateau snake skink, Ophiomorus nuchalis (Squamata: Scincidae), from Iran. Russian Journal of Herpetology, 18, 36 - 38.","Kamali, K. & Mozaffari, O. (2013) New data on the distribution of thick-tailed tuberculate gecko, Bunopus crassicauda (Sauria: Gekkonidae) in Iran. Herpetology Notes, 6, 281 - 283.","Szczerbak, N. N. & Golubev, M. L. (1996) Gecko fauna of the USSR and contiguous regions. Society for the Study of Amphibians and Reptiles, Oxfor, Ohio, 233 pp.","Anderson, S. C. (1999) The lizards of Iran. Society for the Study of Amphibians and Reptiles, Oxford, Ohio, 442 pp."]}

Tropiocolotes Peters, 1880 Tropiocolotes naybandensis Krause, Ahmadzadeh, Moazeni, Wagner & Wilms, 2013 HOLOTYPE. ZFMK 92344. TYPE LOCALITY. Nayband, Asalouyeh, Bushehr Prov., Iran. DISTRIBUTION. Endemic to Iran. DISTRIBUTION IN IRAN. Fig. 68. Known with certainty only from Bushehr and Fars Prov. HABITAT. The types were collected under stones in a semi desert habitat vegetated with Calotropis procera, Ficus religiosa, Lycium edgewothii, Prosopis cineraria, P. juliflor, Ziziphus spina-christi, and Zygophyllum atriplicoides. Another specimen from Fars Prov. was collected on a hillside amongst sparse xerophytic vegetation (Gholamifard et al. 2010). REMARKS. Tropiocolotes naybandensis is a member of the T. steudneri / nattereri species group with the centre of distribution in NW Africa (Egypt, Sudan) and the Levant (Krause et al. 2013). REFERENCES. Gholamifard et al. (2010); Krause et al. (2013)., Published as part of Šmíd, Jiří, Moravec, Jiří, Kodym, Petr, Kratochvíl, Lukáš, Yousefkhani, Seyyed Saeed Hosseinian, Rastegar-Pouyani, Eskandar & Frynta, Daniel, 2014, Annotated checklist and distribution of the lizards of Iran, pp. 1-97 in Zootaxa 3855 (1) on page 27, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3855.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/4929701, {"references":["Krause, V., Ahmadzadeh, F., Moazeni, M., Wagner, P. & Wilms, T. M. (2013) A new species of the genus Tropiocolotes Peters, 1880 from western Iran (Squamata: Sauria: Gekkonidae). Zootaxa, 3716 (1), 22 - 038. http: // dx. doi. org / 10.11646 / zootaxa. 3716.1.2","Gholamifard, A., Gholamhosseini, A., Rastegar-Pouyani, N., Esmaeili, H. R. & Kami, H. G. (2010) First Records of Tropiocolotes steudneri Peters, 1869 and Hemidactylus flaviviridis Ruppell, 1840 (Sauria: Gekkonidae) from Fars Province, Iran. Asian Herpetological Research, 1, 61 - 63."]}

Hemidactylus flaviviridis Rüppell, 1835 LECTOTYPE. SMF 8772, designated by Mertens (1967). TYPE LOCALITY. Insel Masaua, Abyssinien [= Massawa Island, Eritrea]. DISTRIBUTION. Coastal Red Sea from Egypt to Yemen and Somalia, around the shores of the Arabian Peninsula, Persian Gulf coast, Pakistan, E Afghanistan, N India. DISTRIBUTION IN IRAN. Fig. 44. Mostly along the Persian Gulf coast; a more inland record recently reported from Fars Prov. (Gholamifard et al. 2010). HABITAT. A typical house gecko bound to human settlements, ports, railway junctions etc. (Gallagher 1971; Khan 2009; Das et al. 2011; pers. obs). REMARKS. Given the high affinity of H. flaviviridis to urban areas and human settlements it is likely that this gecko has been introduced to the western parts of its range probably from India by humans (Anderson 1999). This assumption is in agreement with the coastal distribution and low genetic variability among animals from Ethiopia, Yemen, Oman, Pakistan, and India (Šmíd et al. 2013a). REFERENCES. Gallagher (1971); Anderson (1999); Gholamifard et al. (2010); Das et al. (2011); Gholamifard & Rastegar-Pouyani (2011)., Published as part of Šmíd, Jiří, Moravec, Jiří, Kodym, Petr, Kratochvíl, Lukáš, Yousefkhani, Seyyed Saeed Hosseinian, Rastegar-Pouyani, Eskandar & Frynta, Daniel, 2014, Annotated checklist and distribution of the lizards of Iran, pp. 1-97 in Zootaxa 3855 (1) on page 19, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3855.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/4929701, {"references":["Ruppell, E. (1835) Neue Wirbelthiere zu der Fauna von Abyssinien gehorig, entdeckt und beschrieben. Amphibien. S. Schmerber, Frankfurt am Main. http: // dx. doi. org / 10.5962 / bhl. title. 53778","Mertens, R. (1967) Die herpetologische Sektion des Natur-Museums und Forschungs-Institutes Senckenberg in Frankfurt a. M. nebst einem Verzeichnis ihrer Typen. Senckenbergiana Biologica, 48, 1 - 106.","Gholamifard, A., Gholamhosseini, A., Rastegar-Pouyani, N., Esmaeili, H. R. & Kami, H. G. (2010) First Records of Tropiocolotes steudneri Peters, 1869 and Hemidactylus flaviviridis Ruppell, 1840 (Sauria: Gekkonidae) from Fars Province, Iran. Asian Herpetological Research, 1, 61 - 63.","Gallagher, M. D. (1971) The amphibians and reptiles of Bahrain. published by the author, Bahrain, 40 pp.","Das, M., Purkayastha, J., Bauer, A. & Sengupta, S. (2011) Hemidactylus flaviviridis Ruppell, 1835 (Sauria: Gekkonidae) an invasive gecko in Assam. North-Western Journal of Zoology, 7, 98 - 104.","Anderson, S. C. (1999) The lizards of Iran. Society for the Study of Amphibians and Reptiles, Oxford, Ohio, 442 pp.","Smid, J., Carranza, S., Kratochvil, L., Gvozdik, V., Nasher, A. K. & Moravec, J. (2013 a) Out of Arabia: A Complex Biogeographic History of Multiple Vicariance and Dispersal Events in the Gecko Genus Hemidactylus (Reptilia: Gekkonidae). PLoS ONE, 8, e 64018. http: // dx. doi. org / 10.1371 / journal. pone. 0064018","Gholamifard, A. & Rastegar-Pouyani, N. (2011) Distribution of Hemidactylus geckos (Reptilia: Gekkonidae) in Fars Province, Southern Iran. Amphibian and Reptile Conservation, 5, 1 - 5."]}

Šmíd, Jiří, Moravec, Jiří, Kodym, Petr, Kratochvíl, Lukáš, Yousefkhani, Seyyed Saeed Hosseinian, Rastegar-Pouyani, Eskandar, Frynta, Daniel (2014): Annotated checklist and distribution of the lizards of Iran. Zootaxa 3855 (1): 1-97, DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.3855.1.1