Blanford's short-toed gecko

Blanford's short-toed gecko
Conservation status
Least Concern  (IUCN 3.1)[1]
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Reptilia
Order:	Squamata
Infraorder:	Gekkota
Family:	Gekkonidae
Genus:	Cyrtopodion
Species:	C. brevipes
Binomial name
Cyrtopodion brevipes (Blanford, 1874)
Synonyms[2]
Gymnodactylus brevipes Blanford, 1874 Cyrtodactylus brevipes — S. Anderson, 1963 Mediodactylus brevipes — Kluge, 1993 Cyrtopodion brevipes — Rösler, 2000

Blanford's short-toed gecko (Cyrtopodion brevipes) is a species of gecko, a lizard in the family Gekkonidae. The species is endemic to southeastern Iran.[2]

Geographic range

In Iran, C. brevipes is found in the province of Sistan and Baluchestan.[2]

References

1. Steven Anderson, Mozafar Sharifi, Theodore Papenfuss (2009). "Cyrtopodion brevipes". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2009: e.T164625A5912966. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2009.RLTS.T164625A5912966.en. Retrieved 18 November 2021.
2. Cyrtopodion brevipes at the Reptarium.cz Reptile Database. Accessed 22 March 2018.

Further reading

• Blanford WT (1874). "Descriptions of new Lizards from Persia and Baluchistán". Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., Fourth Series 13: 453–455. (Gymnodactylus brevipes, new species, p. 453). (in English and Latin).
• Boulenger GA (1885). Catalogue of the Lizards in the British Museum (Natural History). Second Edition. Volume I. Geckonidæ ... London: Trustees of the British Museum (Natural History). (Taylor and Francis, printers). xii + 436 pp. + Plates I-XXXII. (Gymnodactylus brevipes, p. 28).
• Rösler, Herbert (2000). "Kommentierte Liste der rezent, subrezent und fossil bekannten Geckotaxa (Reptilia: Gekkonomorpha)". Gekkota 2: 28–153. (Cyrtopodion brevipes, new combination, p. 68). (in German).