Mediodactylus spinicauda

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: Mediodactylus
Species: Mediodactylus spinicauda

Name

Mediodactylus spinicauda (Strauch, 1887)

• Holotype: ZISP 4047, collected by Christoph in 1875.
• Type locality: “Schahrud”, North Iran.

Combinations

• Alsophylax spinicauda Strauch, 1887: 58 [original combination]
• Gymnodactylus spinicauda — Szczerbak & Golubev, 1977: 130 [subsequent combination]
• Mediodactylus spinicauda — Welch, 1983 [subsequent combination]
• Tenuidactylus spinicauda — Szczerbak & Golubev, 1984: 54 [subsequent combination]
• Cyrtopodion spinicauda — Böhme, 1985: 96 [subsequent combination]
• Cyrtopodion (Mediodactylus) spinicaudus — Rösler, 2000: 75 [subsequent combination]

References

Primary references

• Strauch, A.A. 1887. Bemerkungen über die Geckoniden-Sammlung im zoologischen Museum der kaiserlichen Akademie der Wissenschaften zu St. Petersburg. Mémoires de l'Académie impériale des sciences de St.-Pétersbourg. Septième Série 35(2): 1–72. BHL Reference page. 
• Böhme, W. 1985. Zur Nomenklatur der paläarktischen Bogenfingergeckos, Gattung Tenuidactylus Szczerbak & Golubev 1984 (Reptilia: Gekkonidae). Bonn. Zool. Beitr. 36: 95–98.

Additional references

• Szczerbak, N.N. 2003. Guide to the Reptiles of the Eastern Palearctic. Krieger, Malabar, FL, 260 pp.

Links

• Uetz, P. & Hallermann, J. 2024. Mediodactylus spinicauda. The Reptile Database. Accessed on 2 February 2023.
• Ananjeva, N., Orlov, N., Papenfuss, T. & Bafti, S.S. 2009. IUCN: Mediodactylus spinicauda  (Least Concern). The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2009: e.T164601A5911290. DOI: 10.2305/IUCN.UK.2009.RLTS.T164601A5911290.en. Accessed on 06 July 2023.

Vernacular names

English: Kopet Dagh Bent-toed Gecko