Kiabi's angular-toed gecko (''Cyrtopodion kiabii'' ) is a
species
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of
gecko
Geckos are small, mostly carnivorous lizards that have a wide distribution, found on every continent except Antarctica. Belonging to the infraorder Gekkota, geckos are found in warm climates throughout the world. They range from .
Geckos ar ...
, a
lizard
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in the
family
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Gekkonidae. The species is
endemic
Endemism is the state of a species being found in a single defined geographic location, such as an island, state, nation, country or other defined zone; organisms that are indigenous to a place are not endemic to it if they are also found elsew ...
to southern
Iran
Iran, officially the Islamic Republic of Iran, and also called Persia, is a country located in Western Asia. It is bordered by Iraq and Turkey to the west, by Azerbaijan and Armenia to the northwest, by the Caspian Sea and Turkmeni ...
.
Etymology
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specific name Specific name may refer to:
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In taxonomy, either of these two meanings, each with its own set of rules:
* Specific name (botany), the two-part (bino ...
, ''kiabii'', is in honor of Iranian ecologist
Bahram Hassanzadeh Kiabi of
Shahid Beheshti University.
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Geographic range
''C. kiabii'' is found in Bushehr Province, Iran.[
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References
Further reading
*Ahmadzadeh F, Flecks M, Torki F, Böhme W (2011). "A new species of angular-toed gecko, genus ''Cyrtopodion'' (Squamata: Gekkonidae), from southern Iran". ''Zootaxa'' 2924: 22–32. (''Cyrtopodion kiabii'', new species).
Cyrtopodion
Reptiles described in 2011
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