Persian leaf-toed gecko

Description

Hemidactylus persicus (Persian leaf-toed gecko) is a species of gecko found in West Asia.The Persian leaf-toed gecko has a Snout rather acuminate,as long as the distance between the eye and the upper border of the ear-opening,1.3 the diameter of the orbit;forehead concave;interorbital space very narrow;upper eyelid strongly fringed;ear-opening large,obliquely crescentic,the concavity being directed forwards and upwards,its diameter equalling three fourths that of the eye.Body and limbs moderate.Digits free,moderately dilated,inner well developed;infradigital lamellae obliquely curved;10 lamellae under the thumb,10 under the third finger,9 under the inner toe,and 12 under the third toe.Snout covered with large convex granular scales,largest between the eye and the nostril;hinder part of head with minute granules,and scattered ones of a larger size.Rostral four times as broad as deep (having fused with the anterior labial on each side);nostril above the rostral,between the latter and three nasals;10 or 11 upper and 9 lower labials;mental large,triangular,twice as long as the adjacent labial,its point between two large chin-shields which are in contact behind it;a small chin-shield on each side of the large pair.Upper surface of body covered -with small irregular flat grannies and moderately large,trihedral,strongly keeled tubercles arranged in 14 or 16 rather irregular longitudinal series;the largest tubercles measure about one fourth the diameter of the eye.Abdominal scales small,smooth,rounded,imbricate.Male with a shore angular series of 8 preanal pores.Tail cylindrical,tapering,covered above with small,irregular,imbricate smooth scales and scattered pointed tubercles forming four or six longitudinal series,beneath with a series of transversely dilated plates.Pale yellowish brown,with six faint brownish transverse narrow dorsal bands,the tubercles in these areas being almost black;a dark brown streak from the nostrils through the eye above the ear,with a whitish line above it;lips whitish.