Teratoscincus bedriagai
Teratoscincus bedriagai, also known commonly as Bedraiga's wonder gecko or Bedriaga's plate-tailed gecko, is a small species of lizard in the family Sphaerodactylidae. The species is endemic to Central and Western Asia.
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Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Reptilia |
| Order: | Squamata |
| Family: | Sphaerodactylidae |
| Genus: | Teratoscincus |
| Species: | T. bedriagai |
| Binomial name | |
| Teratoscincus bedriagai Nikolsky, 1900 | |
Etymology
The specific name, bedriagai, is in honor of Russian herpetologist Jacques von Bedriaga.[2]
Geographic range
T. bedriagai is native to the northern and eastern desert basins of the central Plateau of Iran, Sistan, and the desert regions of southern Afghanistan as far east as Kandahar.[3] Ecological variables tested for T. bedriagai found that isothermality was more important with 32% contribution.[4]
References
- Nazarov R, Papenfuss T, Shafiei Bafti S (2017). "Teratoscincus bedriagai ". The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2017: e.T164715A1070344. https://doi.org/10.2305/IUCN.UK.2017-2.RLTS.T164715A1070344.en. Downloaded on 09 March 2019.
- 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. (Teratoscincus bedriagai, p. 21).
- Hojati, Vida; Kami, Haji Gholi; Faghiri, Afshin; Ahmadzadeh, Faraham (January 2009). "A morphological study of the Bedriaga Plate-tailed Gecko, Teratoscincus bedriagai Nikolsky, 1900, in Semnan province of Iran (Reptilia: Gekkonidae)". Zoology in the Middle East. 46 (1): 113–115. doi:10.1080/09397140.2009.10638337. ISSN 0939-7140.
- Sanchooli, Nasser (November 2017). "Ecological variables determining the presence of lizards in the Sistan region, Eastern Iran". Ecological Research. 32 (6): 995–999. doi:10.1007/s11284-017-1514-8. ISSN 0912-3814.
- Teratoscincus bedriagai at the Reptarium.cz Reptile Database
Further reading
- Nikolsky AM (1900). "[Two new species of Teratoscincus from eastern Persia]". Annuaire du Musée Zoologique de l'Académie Impériale des Sciences de St.-Pétersbourg 4 (2): 145–147. (Teratoscincus bedriagai, new species, pp. 146–147). (Title of article in Russian, text in Latin and Russian).
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