Description of a New Species of Cyrtodactylus from Afghanistan with Remarks on the Status of Gymnodactylus longipes and Cyrtodactylus fedtschenkoi
1984; The Society for the Study of Amphibians and Reptiles; Volume: 18; Issue: 3 Linguagem: Inglês
10.2307/1564080
ISSN1937-2418
AutoresAlan Leviton, Steven C. Anderson,
Tópico(s)Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies
ResumoA new species of Cyrtodactylus, C. voraginosus is described from the Helmand Basin of Afghanistan. The new species, closely related to C longipes from eastern Iran, belongs to the caspius-fedtschenkoi section of the genus Cyrtodactylus. A vicariance model, based upon Neogene compressional deformation of Southwestern Asia, is proposed to account for the present-day dis- tribution of those species of Cyrtodactylus allied to C caspius. In 1970 Leviton and Anderson indi- cated that they had before them speci- mens of an apparently undescribed species of Cyrtodactylus from central Af- ghanistan. At that time they had not ex-
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