Gekkonidae
Creators: name: Safaei-Mahroo, Barbod
name: Ghaffari, Hanyeh
name: Anderson, Steven C.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2016
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Reptilia
Squamata
Gekkonidae

description: Key to the genera of Gekkonidae in Iran
Based on Szczerbak & Golubev (1986) and Anderson (1999).
1. Digits not dilated...................................................................................... 2
- Digits strongly dilated, each digit dilated at base, with double row of lamellae beneath, forming pads; terminal phalanges compressed (Figure 10 A–B)........................................................... Hemidactylus Oken, 1817
2. Digits with well-defined lateral fringe of elongate, flexible pointed scales (Figure 10 C–D).......................... 3
- Digits without fringe of elongate, flexible pointed scales, although scales may be denticulate (Figure 10 E–F)............ 5
3. Dorsal scales uniform, not intermixed with tubercles.......................................................... 4
- Small dorsal scales intermixed with rounded tubercles................................. Crossobamon Boettger, 1888
4. Enlarged postmental scales present, nostril strongly projecting, posterior abdominal scales larger than dorsal scales................................................................................ Pseudoceramodactylus Haas, 1957
- No enlarged postmentals; nostril not protuberant; posterior abdominal scales not larger than dorsal scales............................................................................................ Stenodactylus Fitzinger, 1826
5. Dorsal scales heterogeneous; at least some scales of body and head smooth, dorsal scales small, uniform, intermixed with large tubercles (Figure 10 G)................................................................................ 6
- Dorsal scales small, homogeneous (Figure 10 H)........................................................... 11
6. Nostril at apex of prominent swollen or cylindrical caruncle formed by nasal scales; rostral excluded from border of nostril (Figure 10 I)................................................................... Rhinogecko de Witte, 1973
- Nasal scales do not form cylindrical caruncle, although they may appear to be swollen around the nostril; rostral normally forms part of border of nostril (Figure 10 J)................................................................ 7
7. Subcaudal covered with smooth or slightly convex scales..................................................... 8
- Subcaudal covered with strongly keeled scales arranged in regular distances; tail tapering gradually (tip of orginal tail sharply pointed), and two mucronate tubercles on either side of each annulus (Figure 10 K)................................ 9
8. Tail cylindrical, very slender, and of almost uniform diameter from base to tip (tip blunt), no mucronate tubercles or annuli (Figure 10 L)................................................................... Agamura Blanford, 1874
- Caudal tubercles in each semicircle of one segment are in contact with each other along the entire lateral edge; subdigital lamellae with a single transverse series of tubercles, particularly on the free margin under magnification (sometimes worn down in latter part of epidermal cycle); distal phalanges not compressed....................... Bunopus Blanford, 1874
9. Spine-shaped caudal tubercles do not contact each other in the whorls of a segment, surrounded by uniform scales; height of first labial scale from nostril to edge of mouth distinctly less than its width along edge of mouth.......................................................................................... Mediodactylus Szczerbak & Golubev, 1977
- Low or moderately high tail tubercles widely contact each other in semicircles and surrounded by one to two smaller scales; height of first labial scale from nostril to edge of mouth distinctly longer or slightly shorter than its width along edge of mouth................................................................................................... 10
10. keeled; No fewer than 20 femoral pores in males; row of plates covers almost entire subcaudal width; if there is suture between postmental scales in first pair, its length is no more than half the length of mental scale................................................................................................. Tenuidactylus Szczerbak & Golubev, 1984
- Caudal tubercles or enlarged keeled scales forming terminal ring of each segment. No more than 10 precloacal pores; row of subcaudal plates distinctly narrower than subcaudal surface; suture between postmental scales of first pair longer than half the length of mental scale............................................................ Cyrtopodion Fitzinger, 1843
11. Tail scales uniform, homogenous, not keeled (Figure 10 M–N)................................................ 12
- Subcaudals arranged in single large and broad row (Figure 10 P), two strongly keeled tubercles on either side of each annulus (Figure 10 O), tubercles are present on shank (hind limbs have enlarged tubercles)................ Parsigecko gen. nov.
12. Subdigital lamellae keeled; a pair of flat supranasal scales not touching nostril; no postsupranasal scales; besides rostral and first supralabial scales, nostril is in contact with two scales, tubercles are not present on shank... Tropiocolotes Peters, 1880
- Subdigital lamellae smooth; Supranasal scales significantly larger than other nasal scales and always contact nostrils, tubercles are not present on shank.......................................................... Microgecko Nikolsky, 1907
description: Published as part of Safaei-Mahroo, Barbod, Ghaffari, Hanyeh & Anderson, Steven C., 2016, A new genus and species of gekkonid lizard (Squamata: Gekkota: Gekkonidae) from Hormozgan Province with a revised key to gekkonid genera of Iran, pp. 428-444 in Zootaxa 4109 (4) on pages 438-443, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4109.4.2, http://zenodo.org/record/261370