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- <p><b><i>Mediodactylus</i> Szczerbak & Golubev, 1977</b></p><p><b><i>Mediodactylus aspratilis</i> (Anderson, 1973)</b></p><p>HOLOTYPE. USNM 193961.</p><p>TYPE LOCALITY. 35 km E Gach Saran, Fars Prov., Iran.</p><p>DISTRIBUTION. Endemic to Iran.</p><p>DISTRIBUTION IN IRAN. Fig. 48. SW Iran W of the Zagros. This gecko was for long thought to be distributed only in Fars and Kohgiluyeh and Boyer Ahmad Prov. (Anderson 1999; Sindaco & Jeremčenko 2008), but recent extensive field work in western Iran resulted in numerous new records from Kermanshah, Hamadan, and Lorestan Prov. (Kami 1999; Nazari-Serenjeh & Torki 2008a; Torki 2010b; Karamiani & Rastegar-Pouyani 2011).</p><p>HABITAT. Rocky Zagros foothill regions with sparse vegetation where the geckos seek for shelter in rock crevices and between boulders; also found on a wall of a residential building (Kami 1999; Karamiani & Rastegar-Pouyani 2011).</p><p>REMARKS. Originally described as <i>Bunopus</i>, but later on reassigned to the genus <i>Carinatogecko</i> (Golubev & Szczerbak 1981), which has been, in turn, synonymized with <i>Mediodactylus</i> by Červenka <i>et al.</i> (2010). However, many authors do not accept this later synonymization and consider <i>Carinatogecko</i> a valid genus (see comments by Torki (2011)), but without any support from phylogenetic analyses. Based on a distribution of key characters among examined specimens, Červenka <i>et al.</i> (2010) also tentatively concluded that <i>M. aspratilis</i> might be a junior synonym of <i>M. heteropholis</i>.</p><p>REFERENCES. Anderson (1973, 1999); Golubev & Szczerbak (1981); Kami (1999); Nazari-Serenjeh & Torki (2008a); Červenka <i>et al.</i> (2010); Karamiani & Rastegar-Pouyani (2011).</p>