. Asiatic herpetological research. Reptiles -- Asia Periodicals; Amphibians -- Asia Periodicals. Vol. 8, p. 62 Asiatic Herpetological Research 1999. thS/1977- Figure 1. Cyrtodactylus stoliczkai (ZSM ), adult female, with unregenerated tail. T. mintoni, T. chitralensis, T. stoliczkai and ensis; the genus Cyrtopodion Fitzinger, 1843 is resur- rected as a second subgenus to include four Pakistani forms: agamuroides, scaber, watsoni and kachhensis. A third subgenus Medioductylus is left floating (Gol- ubev, pers. 1996). Undoubtedly southeast Asian cyrtodactylid geckos are mo
. Asiatic herpetological research. Reptiles -- Asia Periodicals; Amphibians -- Asia Periodicals. Vol. 8, p. 62 Asiatic Herpetological Research 1999. thS/1977- Figure 1. Cyrtodactylus stoliczkai (ZSM ), adult female, with unregenerated tail. T. mintoni, T. chitralensis, T. stoliczkai and ensis; the genus Cyrtopodion Fitzinger, 1843 is resur- rected as a second subgenus to include four Pakistani forms: agamuroides, scaber, watsoni and kachhensis. A third subgenus Medioductylus is left floating (Gol- ubev, pers. 1996). Undoubtedly southeast Asian cyrtodactylid geckos are morphologically distinct from Palearctic tenuidac- tylids (Leviton and Anderson, 1970: Khan, 1988, 1989, 1991; Khan and Tasnim, 1990). Khan (1993) maintains the genus Cyrtodactylus Gray, 1827, to include Tibeto-Himalayan species group and all the southeast Asian species (Smith, 1935). The southeast Asian cyrtodactylids are a very heterogeneous assem- blage of closely allied species. Their shared characters are: smooth tubercular granular scales with scattered round-oval smooth or slightly keeled tubercles on head and body dorsum; more than 25 heterogeneous interorbitals; subcylindrical and subequal body and tail; dorsal vivid pattern; subdigital lamellae about twice as broad as high with a pair of lateral row of granular scales, lamellae not swollen at the digital angles; 2-10 preanal pores in male, rare femoral pores; small blunt caudal tubercles, subcaudals small rarely broad. In the past there have been several attempts to arrange them in a logical array (Annan- dale, 1913; Smith, 1935: Khan, 1993). Considering morpho-ecogeography of these geckos, we distin- guish two lineages: Circum-oceanic group: tropical, scattered along sub continental coastal strip and oceanic islands, confined between lat. 7-32° N, long 75-105° E; dorsal pattern of vivid cross bars or spots, dorsal granular scales mixed with larger rounded, smooth or slightly keeled tubercles, tail and body cylindrica
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