Morphometric Study of Hemidactylus Geckos (Squamata:Gekkonidae) in Iran

• Published in: Iranian journal of animal biosystematics Vol. 10; no. 2; pp. 175 - 184
• Main Authors: Mahboubeh sadat Hosseinzadeh, Mansour Aliabadian, Eskandar Rastegar-Pouyani, Nasrullah Rastegar-Pouyani
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Ferdowsi University of Mashhad 01.12.2014
• Subjects: gekkonidae; hemidactylus; iranian plateau; meristic characters; metric characters; morphometric analysis

So far, four species of Hemidactylus have been reported in Iran as follows: H. persicus, H. robustus, H. flaviviridis, H. romeshkanicus. In this study, 108 specimens belonging to these four species of Hemidactylus were examined morphologically, using 19 metric and 6 meristic characters. Multivariate...