Altiphylax stoliczkai

Taxonavigation

Taxonavigation: Gekkonoidea

Superregnum: Eukaryota Cladus: Unikonta Cladus: Opisthokonta Cladus: Holozoa Regnum: Animalia Subregnum: Eumetazoa Cladus: Bilateria Cladus: Nephrozoa Superphylum: Deuterostomia Phylum: Chordata Subphylum: Vertebrata Infraphylum: Gnathostomata Megaclassis: Osteichthyes Cladus: Sarcopterygii Cladus: Rhipidistia Cladus: Tetrapodomorpha Cladus: Eotetrapodiformes Cladus: Elpistostegalia Superclassis: Tetrapoda Cladus: Reptiliomorpha Cladus: Amniota Classis: Reptilia Cladus: Eureptilia Cladus: Romeriida Subclassis: Diapsida Cladus: Sauria Infraclassis: Lepidosauromorpha Superordo: Lepidosauria Ordo: Squamata Subordo: Gekkota Infraordo: Gekkomorpha Superfamilia: Gekkonoidea

Familia: Gekkonidae
Genus: Altiphylax
Species: Altiphylax stoliczkai

Name

Altiphylax stoliczkai (Steindachner, 1867)

• Holotype: NMW 16756.
• Type locality: “bei Karoo, nördlich von Dras”, Kashmir.

Combinations

• Gymnodactylus stoliczkai Steindachner, 1867: 15 [original combination]
• Gymnodactylus stoliczkae — Steindachner, 1867 (nom. subst.)
• Gymnodactylus stoliczkae — Boulenger, 1885: 31
• Gymnodactylus stoliczkai — Smith, 1935: 57
• Cyrtodactylus stoliczkai — Underwood, 1954: 475
• Gymnodactylus (Cyrtodactylus) stoliczkai — Wermuth, 1965: 67
• Tenuidactylus stoliczkai — Szczerbak & Golubev, 1984: 55
• Cyrtodactylus toliczkai — Murthy, 1990: 8
• Gonydactylus stoliczkai — Kluge, 1991: 13
• Cyrtodactylus stoliczkai — Kluge, 1993
• Cyrtodactylus stoliczkai — Rösler, 1995: 111
• Gymnodactylus stoliczkai — Khan & Rösler, 2000
• Mesiodactylus stoliczkai — Khan, 2000
• Cyrtopodion stoliczkai — Rösler, 2000: 75
• Altigekko stoliczkai — Khan, 2003
• Altigekko stoliczkai — Krysko et al., 2007

Synonyms

• Cyrtodactylus yarkandensis Anderson, 1872: 381
  • Syntypes: ZSI 3792.
  • Type locality: “Yarkand”.
• Alsophylax (Altiphylax) boehmei Szczerbak, 1991: 54
  • Holotype: ZFMK 38773, ♀, collected by G. Osella on 1 July 1976.
  • Type locality: “Pakistan: Ladak: Skardu/Karakorum, 2300 m”.

References

Primary references

• Steindachner, F. 1867. Reptilien. 1–98 pp. In: Reise der Österreichischen Fregatte Novara um die Erde in den Jahren 1857, 1858, 1859 unter den Befehlen des Commodore B. von Wüllerstorf-Urbair (Zoologie), Vol. 1, part 3. K. Gerold's Sohn/Kaiserlich-Königl. Hof- und Staatsdruckerei: Wien.
• Anderson, J. 1872. On some Persian, Himalayan, and other Reptiles. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1872: 371–404. BHL
• Shcherbak, N.N. 1991. Eine neue Gecko-Art aus Pakistan: Alsophylax (Altiphylax) boehmei sp. nov. (In German). Salamandra 27(1): 53–57. Full article (PDF). Reference page. 

Additional references

• Rösler, H. 2000. Die postanale Beschuppung bei Cyrtodactylus Gray 1827 und Cyrtopodion Fitzinger 1843 - funktionelle und taxonomische Aspekte (Sauria: Gekkonidae). Gekkota 2: 154–207.
• Khan, M.S. 2003. Questions of generic designation of angular-toed geckos of Pakistan with descriptions of three new genera (Reptilia: Gekkonidae). J. nat. hist. Wildl. 2(2): 1–9.
• Das, S., Raha, S., Mitra, S. & Bag, P. 2017. Implication of variable characters for the taxonomy of Altiphylax stoliczkai (Steindachner, 1867) and Altiphylax yarkandensis (Anderson, 1872) (Reptilia: Gekkonidae) with comments on the ZSI ‘syntype’ of the latter taxon. Zootaxa 4320(1): 183–192. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4320.1.11 Reference page. 

Links

• Uetz, P. & Hallermann, J. 2024. Altiphylax stoliczkai. The Reptile Database. Accessed on 13 December 2017.
• Khan, M.S. & Papenfuss, T.J. 2010. IUCN: Altiphylax stoliczkai  (Least Concern). The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2010: e.T178432A7545905. DOI: 10.2305/IUCN.UK.2010-4.RLTS.T178432A7545905.en

Vernacular names

English: Frontier Bow-fingered Gecko