Asaccus nasrullahi

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Asaccus nasrullahi
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Reptilia
Order: Squamata
Suborder: Gekkota
Family: Phyllodactylidae
Genus: Asaccus
Species:
A. nasrullahi
Binomial name
Asaccus nasrullahi
Y. Werner, 2006

Asaccus nasrullahi, also known commonly as Nasrullah's leaf-toed gecko, is a species of lizard in the family Phyllodactylidae. The species is endemic to Iran. [2] [3]

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Etymology

The specific name, nasrullahi, was chosen in honor of Iranian herpetologist Nasrullah Rastegar-Pouyani, "in recognition of his contribution to the knowledge of the herpetology of Iran, including the genus Asaccus". [4] [5]

Taxonomy

Asaccus nasrullahi was previously misidentified as Ptyodactylus hasselquistii , until it was named as a new species in 2006. [2] The masculine given name, Nasrullah, means "victory of God" which according to taxon author Yehudah L. Werner "seems appropriate for the survival, discovery and rediscovery of this gecko species". [4] In 2014 Kamali et al. considered Asaccus nasrullahi to be a synonym of Asaccus griseonotus . [6]

Geographic range and habitat

Asaccus nasrullahi is found in the Zagros Mountains in rocky valleys dominated by oaks such as Quercus brantii . [3]

References

  1. ↑ Papenfuss, Theodore; Sharifi, Mozafar (2009). "Asaccus nasrullahi ". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species . 2009 e.T164742A5922300. doi: 10.2305/IUCN.UK.2009.RLTS.T164742A5922300.en . Retrieved 18 November 2021.
  2. 1 2 Asaccus nasrullahi at the Reptarium.cz Reptile Database. Accessed 2018-11-03.
  3. 1 2 Šmíd, Jiří; Moravec, Jiří; Kodym, Petr; Kratochvíl, Lukáš; Yousefkhani, Seyyed Saeed Hosseinian; Frynta, Daniel (2014). "Annotated checklist and distribution of the lizards of Iran". Zootaxa. 3855 (1): 1–97. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.3855.1.1. PMID   25284505.
  4. 1 2 Werner, Y.L. (2006). "Retraction of Ptyodactylus Goldfuss from the fauna of Iran and its replacement by a new species of Asaccus Dixon & Anderson (Reptilia: Sauria: Gekkonidae)". Hamadryad30: 135–140. (Asaccus nasrullahi, new species).
  5. ↑ Beolens, Bo; Watkins, Michael; Grayson, Michael (2011). The Eponym Dictionary of Reptiles. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. xiii + 296 pp. ISBN   978-1-4214-0135-5. (Asaccus nasrullahi, p. 187).
  6. ↑ Asaccus griseonotus at Wikispecies.


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