Paradactylodon gorganensis (Clergue-Gazeau and Thorn, 1979)
Batrachuperus gorganensis Clergue-Gazeau and Thorn, 1979 "1978", Bull. Soc. Hist. Nat. Toulouse, 114: 455. Holotype: MNHNP 1978.1982, by original designation. Type locality: "La grotte . . . se situe prčs de la route reliant les villes de Ali-Abad et de Gorgan (altitude: 400 m au-dessus du niveau de la Caspeinne) . . . . au fond de la grotte, au bord de l'eau et sur un banc d'argile ā 200 m de l'entrée . . . . grotte avec resurgence entre Gorgan et Ali-Abad", Iran. = At the edge of a cavernous stream on a clay bank 200 m inside the entrance of a cave, situated between the village of Gorgan and Ali-Abad, Elburz Mountain Range of north-central Iran, near the southeast shore of the Caspian Sea and with an elevation of 400 m above its level.
Paradactylodon gorganensis — Risch, 1984, Alytes, 3: 44. Zhang, Chen, Zhou, Liu, Wang, Papenfuss, Wake, and Qu, 2006, Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA, 103: 7364.
Batrachuperus gorganensis — Reilly, 1987, Amphibia-Reptilia, 8: 283-284.
English Names
Gorgan Mountain Salamander (Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 28).
Persian Cave Salamander (Baloutch and Kami, 1995, Amph. Iran: 80).
Distribution
Known only from the Shir-Abad cave and the stream flowing from it, 60 km east of Gorgan, in the eastern part of the Elburz Mountains, Golestan Province, northern Iran, 310 m elevation.
Comment
Stöck, 1999, Zool. Abh. Staatl. Mus. Tierkd. Dresden, 50: 217-241, suggested that Batrachuperus gorganensis might be conspecific with Batrachuperus persicus. Baloutch and Kami, 1995, Amph. Iran: 80-83; and Thorn and Raffaëlli, 2000, Salamand. Ancien Monde: 122-124, provided accounts. See map, description of geographic range and habitat, and conservation status (as Batrachuperus gorganensis) in Stuart, Hoffmann, Chanson, Cox, Berridge, Ramani, and Young, 2008, Threatened Amph. World: 547. Ebrahimi, Kami, and Stöck, 2004, Asian Herpetol. Res., 10: 168-175, reported on egg deposition and larval morphology.
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