Stampa
Categoria: 2011

Authors: Farhang Torki, Ulrich Manth & Mirko Barts

Source: Sauria, Issue 04/2011

Publisher: Terrariengemeinschaft Berlin e.V.

Abstract
A new species of the genus Hemidactylus is described on the basis of one adult male specimen from the western slopes of the Zagros Mountains in southern Lorestan, Iran. It is compared to, and shown to be distinct from, all other species of this genus known from Iran and surrounding regions. A brief note on Hemidactylus robustus describes its occurrence and habits in Iran and provides a summary of morphological key characteristics.
 
Key words: Hemidactylus romeshkanicus sp. n.; Hemidactylus robustus Heyden, 1827; taxonomy; morphology; ecology; Asia: Iran: Lorestan Province

Diagnosis
A medium-sized Hemidactylus with a snout-vent length of at least 70 mm; tubercles on all dorsal faces except of the upper arm; back with large, trihedral, sharply keeled tubercles with vertically striated surfaces; tubercles on limbs, neck, head and in the ventrolateral region small to moderately large, conical to keeled; precloacal pores in a chevron-shaped arrangement; no femoral pores; subcaudals enlarged; ventral scales imbricate and denticulate; enlarged scansors beneath fingers and toes, incompletely to fully divided save for the terminal scansor, which is entire.

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