Biology:Blanford's short-toed gecko

From HandWiki
Short description: Species of lizard

Blanford's short-toed gecko
Scientific classification edit
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Reptilia
Order: Squamata
Family: Gekkonidae
Genus: Cyrtopodion
Species:
C. brevipes
Binomial name
Cyrtopodion brevipes
(Blanford, 1874)
Cyrtopodion brevipes distribution.png
Synonyms[2]
  • Gymnodactylus brevipes
    Blanford, 1874
  • Cyrtodactylus brevipes
    — S. Anderson, 1963
  • Mediodactylus brevipes
    Kluge, 1993
  • Cyrtopodion brevipes
    — Rösler, 2000

Blanford's short-toed gecko (Cyrtopodion brevipes) is a species of gecko, a lizard in the family Gekkonidae. The species is endemic to southeastern Iran.[2]

Geographic range

In Iran, C. brevipes is found in the province of Sistan and Baluchestan.[2]

References

  1. Steven Anderson, Mozafar Sharifi, Theodore Papenfuss (2009). "Cyrtopodion brevipes". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2009: e.T164625A5912966. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2009.RLTS.T164625A5912966.en. https://www.iucnredlist.org/species/164625/5912966. Retrieved 18 November 2021. 
  2. 2.0 2.1 2.2 Cyrtopodion brevipes at the Reptarium.cz Reptile Database. Accessed 22 March 2018.

Further reading

  • Blanford WT (1874). "Descriptions of new Lizards from Persia and Baluchistán". Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., Fourth Series 13: 453–455. (Gymnodactylus brevipes, new species, p. 453). (in English and Latin).
  • Boulenger GA (1885). Catalogue of the Lizards in the British Museum (Natural History). Second Edition. Volume I. Geckonidæ ... London: Trustees of the British Museum (Natural History). (Taylor and Francis, printers). xii + 436 pp. + Plates I-XXXII. (Gymnodactylus brevipes, p. 28).
  • Rösler, Herbert (2000). "Kommentierte Liste der rezent, subrezent und fossil bekannten Geckotaxa (Reptilia: Gekkonomorpha)". Gekkota 2: 28–153. (Cyrtopodion brevipes, new combination, p. 68). (in German).

Wikidata ☰ Q3009430 entry