Asaccus

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

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

19, see text.

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]

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).
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