identifier	taxonID	type	CVterm	format	language	title	description	additionalInformationURL	UsageTerms	rights	Owner	contributor	creator	bibliographicCitation
72CF2C46ED192C809908E2A359B466A1.text	72CF2C46ED192C809908E2A359B466A1.taxon	http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text	http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#GeneralDescription	text/html	en	Cyrtopodion scabrum (Heyden 1827) Heyden 1827	<div><p>Taxon classification Animalia Squamata Gekkonidae</p> <p>Cyrtopodion scabrum (Heyden, 1827) Figure 3A</p> <p>Cyrtopodion scabrum Keeled rock gecko, rough-tailed gecko and rough thin-toed gecko</p> <p>Remarks.</p> <p>Mean snout-vent length 38.9 mm and tail 49.2 mm.</p> <p>This species has a wide distribution range from Egypt through southwest Asia to northwestern India (Anderson 1999). It is mostly distributed in western Iran, rarely found out of residential places, and it is the most common house gecko in western Iran (Anderson 1999). Caves are not the common habitat for this gecko, but we could observe this species at two caves in Ilam and Fars provinces (Table 1). Darhamreh cave is limestone cave with a small and bright entrance. Internal environment of this cave is completely dry and there is no water. The other cave (Sangeshkan) is a system of artificial underground spaces (disused sandstone mines) in a hill at the southern margin of Jahrom town (Fars province). The cave consists of some chambers with broken and fallen ceilings, creating a number of smaller spaces, fissures and crevices, well useful as roosts.</p></div> 	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/72CF2C46ED192C809908E2A359B466A1	Public Domain	No known copyright restrictions apply. See Agosti, D., Egloff, W., 2009. Taxonomic information exchange and copyright: the Plazi approach. BMC Research Notes 2009, 2:53 for further explanation.		Pensoft via Plazi	Esmaeili-Rineh, Somayeh;Akmali, Vahid;Fathipour, Farajollah;Heidari, Nastaran;Rastegar-Pouyani, Nasrullah	Esmaeili-Rineh, Somayeh, Akmali, Vahid, Fathipour, Farajollah, Heidari, Nastaran, Rastegar-Pouyani, Nasrullah (2016): New distribution records of cave-dwelling gekkonid lizards (Sauria, Gekkonidae and Phyllodactylidae) in the Zagros Mountains of Iran. Subterranean Biology 18: 39-47, DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/subtbiol.18.8185, URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/subtbiol.18.8185
B1943F059E61031EFBDA5BEA2A63EE43.text	B1943F059E61031EFBDA5BEA2A63EE43.taxon	http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text	http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#GeneralDescription	text/html	en	Cyrtopodion gastrophole (Werner 1917) Werner 1917	<div><p>Taxon classification Animalia Squamata Gekkonidae</p> <p>Cyrtopodion gastrophole (Werner, 1917) Figure 3B</p> <p>Cyrtopodion gastrophole Werner’s bent-toed gecko, Persian Spider-gecko</p> <p>Remarks.</p> <p>Mean snout-vent length 44.8 mm, tail 54.5 mm.</p> <p>This species is an endemic species for Iran, known only from its type locality, the Fars province. But we collected this species in a cave in Bushehr province. We collected this species inside Dalaki cave, in humid and cool places used as a shelter for physiological thermoregulation during mid-day hours. Usually active at night but in the middle of the day it was found in shaded areas and feed on Lepidoptera insects.</p> </div>	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/B1943F059E61031EFBDA5BEA2A63EE43	Public Domain	No known copyright restrictions apply. See Agosti, D., Egloff, W., 2009. Taxonomic information exchange and copyright: the Plazi approach. BMC Research Notes 2009, 2:53 for further explanation.		Pensoft via Plazi	Esmaeili-Rineh, Somayeh;Akmali, Vahid;Fathipour, Farajollah;Heidari, Nastaran;Rastegar-Pouyani, Nasrullah	Esmaeili-Rineh, Somayeh, Akmali, Vahid, Fathipour, Farajollah, Heidari, Nastaran, Rastegar-Pouyani, Nasrullah (2016): New distribution records of cave-dwelling gekkonid lizards (Sauria, Gekkonidae and Phyllodactylidae) in the Zagros Mountains of Iran. Subterranean Biology 18: 39-47, DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/subtbiol.18.8185, URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/subtbiol.18.8185
5C4687670A33593EA9E91057346474A4.text	5C4687670A33593EA9E91057346474A4.taxon	http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text	http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#GeneralDescription	text/html	en	Asaccus elisae (Werner 1895) Werner 1895	<div><p>Taxon classification Animalia Squamata Phyllodactylidae</p> <p>Asaccus elisae (Werner, 1895) Figure 3C, D</p> <p>Asaccus elisae Werner’s leaf-toed gecko</p> <p>Remarks.</p> <p>Mean snout-vent length 42.5 mm, tail 29.8 mm.</p> <p>This species was mostly observed and collected in caves in Iran (Anderson 1999). Other researchers (Weber 1960, Wettstein and Löffler 1951) reported it as a house gecko in Iraq on the Mesopotamian plain. This species was collected in seven caves (Table 1). Six of them are limestone caves with dry and bright entrances. One of these cave (Zarinabad) have gypsum structure and at the time of the year there is running water inside it. Due to its tunnel-like shape air flows through it.</p> </div>	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/5C4687670A33593EA9E91057346474A4	Public Domain	No known copyright restrictions apply. See Agosti, D., Egloff, W., 2009. Taxonomic information exchange and copyright: the Plazi approach. BMC Research Notes 2009, 2:53 for further explanation.		Pensoft via Plazi	Esmaeili-Rineh, Somayeh;Akmali, Vahid;Fathipour, Farajollah;Heidari, Nastaran;Rastegar-Pouyani, Nasrullah	Esmaeili-Rineh, Somayeh, Akmali, Vahid, Fathipour, Farajollah, Heidari, Nastaran, Rastegar-Pouyani, Nasrullah (2016): New distribution records of cave-dwelling gekkonid lizards (Sauria, Gekkonidae and Phyllodactylidae) in the Zagros Mountains of Iran. Subterranean Biology 18: 39-47, DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/subtbiol.18.8185, URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/subtbiol.18.8185
9C956CCC4AB3554A8BF355C9A1A4493A.text	9C956CCC4AB3554A8BF355C9A1A4493A.taxon	http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text	http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#GeneralDescription	text/html	en	Asaccus nasrullahi Werner 2006	<div><p>Taxon classification Animalia Squamata Phyllodactylidae</p> <p>Asaccus nasrullahi Werner, 2006 Figure 3E</p> <p>Asaccus nasrullahi Nasrullah’s leaf-toed gecko</p> <p>Remarks.</p> <p>Mean snout-vent length 70 mm, tail 66.8 mm.</p> <p>The species is distributed in parts of the West and Southwest of the Zagros Mountains, mainly in Loristan province. In this study we report a new record of this taxon from Kulkani cave in Ilam province. Kulkani is limestone cave with large and bright entrance. The cave can be divided into two parts. The first part is dry and bright where specimens were found in it. The second part is smaller and dark with little humidity.</p> </div>	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/9C956CCC4AB3554A8BF355C9A1A4493A	Public Domain	No known copyright restrictions apply. See Agosti, D., Egloff, W., 2009. Taxonomic information exchange and copyright: the Plazi approach. BMC Research Notes 2009, 2:53 for further explanation.		Pensoft via Plazi	Esmaeili-Rineh, Somayeh;Akmali, Vahid;Fathipour, Farajollah;Heidari, Nastaran;Rastegar-Pouyani, Nasrullah	Esmaeili-Rineh, Somayeh, Akmali, Vahid, Fathipour, Farajollah, Heidari, Nastaran, Rastegar-Pouyani, Nasrullah (2016): New distribution records of cave-dwelling gekkonid lizards (Sauria, Gekkonidae and Phyllodactylidae) in the Zagros Mountains of Iran. Subterranean Biology 18: 39-47, DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/subtbiol.18.8185, URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/subtbiol.18.8185
7E554A6B9C66985C9514B4C7A9FC2B83.text	7E554A6B9C66985C9514B4C7A9FC2B83.taxon	http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text	http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#GeneralDescription	text/html	en	Hemidactylus persicus Anderson 1872	<div><p>Taxon classification Animalia Squamata Gekkonidae</p> <p>Hemidactylus persicus Anderson, 1872 Figure 3F</p> <p>Hemidactylus persicus Persian gecko</p> <p>Remarks.</p> <p>Mean snout-vent length 53.3 mm, tail 62.9 mm.</p> <p>The species is widely distributed from coastal Arabia north to southern Iran and Iraq, east to Sind Waziristan, Pakistan (Anderson 1999). In Iran it is known from Khuzestan, Fars, Kerman, and Baluchistan Provinces. We collected this gecko in six caves (Table 1). All of these caves are located in different parts of the Zagros Mountains and are formed in limestone. The caves are almost similar in terms of habitat conditions such as moisture content, hydrology, entrance size and brightness. One of these caves is Tadovan located at a height of 1200 meter above the sea level. This cave is large and complex with a large entrance within a rocky overhang and is situated in a steep cliff on the left, eastern side of the Ghare-Aghaj river valley. The cave is a series of well passable corridors and domes of different width (ca. 1-5 m) and height (ca. 2-7 m). Immediately inside the entrance is a large pit of about 6 m in depth. After the pit, in the twilight zone, is a large gallery with 36% humidity and 30°C temperature. Hemidactylus persicus was found in this gallery which has the lowest humidity (36%) compared to other galleries in which their humidity ranges from 45% to 97%. This lizard was not found in other parts of the cave with different humidity.</p> </div>	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/7E554A6B9C66985C9514B4C7A9FC2B83	Public Domain	No known copyright restrictions apply. See Agosti, D., Egloff, W., 2009. Taxonomic information exchange and copyright: the Plazi approach. BMC Research Notes 2009, 2:53 for further explanation.		Pensoft via Plazi	Esmaeili-Rineh, Somayeh;Akmali, Vahid;Fathipour, Farajollah;Heidari, Nastaran;Rastegar-Pouyani, Nasrullah	Esmaeili-Rineh, Somayeh, Akmali, Vahid, Fathipour, Farajollah, Heidari, Nastaran, Rastegar-Pouyani, Nasrullah (2016): New distribution records of cave-dwelling gekkonid lizards (Sauria, Gekkonidae and Phyllodactylidae) in the Zagros Mountains of Iran. Subterranean Biology 18: 39-47, DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/subtbiol.18.8185, URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/subtbiol.18.8185
