Mediodactylus russowii

Mediodactylus russowii, also known commonly as the grey thin-toed gecko, Russow's bent-toed gecko, and the Transcaspian bent-toed gecko, is a species of lizard in the family Gekkonidae. The species is native to Asia. There are two recognized subspecies.

Mediodactylus russowii
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Reptilia
Order: Squamata
Family: Gekkonidae
Genus: Mediodactylus
Species:
M. russowii
Binomial name
Mediodactylus russowii
(Strauch, 1887)
Synonyms[2]
  • Gymnodactylus russowii
    Strauch, 1887
  • Hemidactylus russowi
    — Boettger, 1893
  • Cyrtodactylus russovi
    Underwood, 1954
    (ex errore)
  • Tenuidactylus russowi
    — Szczerbak & Golubev, 1984
  • Cyrtopodion russowi
    — Böhme, 1985
  • Mediodactylus russowii
    — Kluge, 1993

Etymology

The specific name, russowii, is in honor of Estonian naturalist Valerian von Russow (1842–1879).[3]

Geographic range

M. russowii is found from Russia to Turkmenistan, Kazakhstan, northeastern Iran, northwestern China, Uzbekistan, Tajikistan, and Kyrgyzstan.[2]

Habitat

The preferred natural habitats of M. russowii are desert and shrubland, at altitudes from 45 m (148 ft) below sea level to 2,000 m (6,600 ft) above sea level.[1]

Reproduction

M. russowii is oviparous.[2]

Subspecies

The following two subspecies are recognized as being valid, including the nominotypical subspecies.[2]

  • Mediodactylus russowii russowii (Strauch, 1887)
  • Mediodactylus russowii zarudnyi (Nikolsky, 1900)

Nota bene: A trinomial authority in parentheses indicates that the subspecies was originally described in a genus other than Mediodactylus.

  • Mediodactylus russowii
  • Mediodactylus russowii
  • Mediodactylus russowii

References
  1. Ananjeva NB, Orlov NL, Nazarov R, Shafiei Bafti S, Papenfuss T, Shi L (2019). "Mediodactylus russowii ". The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2019: e.T164589A49208316. https://dx.doi.org/10.2305/IUCN.UK.2019-2.RLTS.T164589A49208316.en. Downloaded on 10 February 2020.
  2. Mediodactylus russowii at the Reptarium.cz Reptile Database
  3. Beolens, Bo; Watkins, Michael; Grayson, Michael (2011). The Eponym Dictionary of Reptiles. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. xiii + 296 pp. ISBN 978-1-4214-0135-5. (Cyrtopodion russowii, p. 230).

Further reading
  • Nikolsky AM (1900). "Reptiles, amphibies [sic] et poissons, recueillis pendant le voyage de Mr. N. A. Zaroudny en 1898 dans la Perse ". Annuaire du Musée Zoologique de l'Académie Impériale des Sciences de St.-Pétersbourg 24 (4): 376-417 + Plate XX. (Gymnodactylus zarudnyi, new species, p. 385-387 + Plate XX, middle figure). (Text in Russian, diagnoses and localities in Latin, title in French and Russian).
  • Sindaco R , Jeremčenko VK (2008). The Reptiles of the Western Palearctic. 1. Annotated Checklist and Distributional Atlas of the Turtles, Crocodiles, Amphisbaenians and Lizards of Europe, North Africa, Middle East and Central Asia. (Monographs of the Societas Herpetologica Italica). Latina, Italy: Edizioni Belvedere. 580 pp. ISBN 978-88-89504-14-7. (Cyrtopodion russowii).
  • Strauch 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 + i-ii (index) + one plate. (Gymnodactylus russowii, new species, pp. 49–51 + plate figures 10-12). (in German).


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