Asaccus

Asaccus
Asaccus elisae
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Reptilia
Order:	Squamata
Family:	Phyllodactylidae
Genus:	Asaccus Dixon & S. Anderson, 1973[1]
Species
19, see text.

Asaccus is a genus of geckos, commonly known as Southwest Asian leaf-toed geckos, in the family Phyllodactylidae.[2]

Geographic range

The genus Asaccus is endemic to the Middle East.[2]

Species

There are 19 species which are recognized as being valid in the genus Asaccus.[3] Five were described in 2011.[4][5]

• Asaccus andersoni Torki et al., 2011
• Asaccus arnoldi Simo-Riudalbas, Tarroso, Papenfuss, Al-Sariri, & Carranza, 2017
• Asaccus barani Torki et al., 2011
• Asaccus caudivolvulus Arnold & Gardner, 1994 – Emirati leaf-toed gecko
• Asaccus elisae (F. Werner, 1895) – Werner's leaf-toed gecko, Elisa's leaf-toed gecko
• Asaccus gallagheri (Arnold, 1972) – Gallagher's leaf-toed gecko, Gallagher's gecko
• Asaccus gardneri Carranza, Simó-Riudalbas, Jayasinghe, Wilms & Els, 2016
• Asaccus granularis Torki, 2010
• Asaccus griseonotus Dixon & S. Anderson, 1973 – grey-spotted leaf-toed gecko, grey-marked gecko
• Asaccus iranicus Torki et al., 2011
• Asaccus kermanshahensis N. Rastegar-Pouyani, 1996 – Kermanshah leaf-toed gecko
• Asaccus kurdistanensis N. Rastegar-Pouyani, Nilson & Faizi, 2006 - Kurdistan leaf-toed gecko
• Asaccus margaritae Carranza, Simó-Riudalbas, Jayasinghe, Wilms & Els, 2016 - Margarita's leaf-toed gecko
• Asaccus montanus Gardner, 1994 - mountain leaf-toed gecko
• Asaccus nasrullahi Y. Werner, 2006 - Nasrullah's leaf-toed gecko
• Asaccus platyrhynchus Arnold & Gardner, 1994 - flat-snouted leaf-toed gecko
• Asaccus saffinae Afrasiab & Mohamad, 2009
• Asaccus tangestanensis Torki et al., 2011
• Asaccus zagrosicus Torki et al., 2011

Nota bene: A binomial authority in parentheses indicates that the species was originally described in a genus other than Asaccus.

References

1. "Asaccus ". Dahms Tierleben. www.dahmstierleben.de/systematik/Reptilien/Squamata/Gekkota/phyllodactylidae.
2. Papenfuss TJ et al. (2010). "Phylogenetic relationships among species of Southwest Asian leaf-toed geckos (Asaccus)". Archived 2014-10-06 at the Wayback Machine Proceedings of the California Academy of Sciences, Series 4, 61 (13): 587-596.
3. Asaccus at the Reptarium.cz Reptile Database. Accessed 23 December 2013.
4. Torki F et al. (2011). "Description of four new Asaccus Dixon and Anderson, 1973 (Reptilia: Phyllodactylidae) from Iran and Turkey". Amphibia-Reptilia 32 (2): 185-202.
5. Torki F (2011). "Beschreibung eines neuen Asaccus (Sauria: Phyllodactylidae) aus dem Iran ". Sauria 33 (1) 51–61. (in German).

Further reading

• Dixon JR, Anderson SC (1973). "A new genus and species of Gecko (Sauria: Gekkonidae) from Iran and Iraq". Bull. Southern California Acad. Sci. 72 (3): 155-160. (Asaccus, new genus, pp. 156–157; A. griseonotus, new species, pp. 158–160).