Abstract
A new species of Cyrtodactylus, C. voraginosus is described from the Helmand Basin of Afghanistan. The new species, closely related to C longipes from eastern Iran, belongs to the caspius-fedtschenkoi section of the genus Cyrtodactylus. A vicariance model, based upon Neogene compressional deformation of Southwestern Asia, is proposed to account for the present-day dis- tribution of those species of Cyrtodactylus allied to C caspius. In 1970 Leviton and Anderson indi- cated that they had before them speci- mens of an apparently undescribed species of Cyrtodactylus from central Af- ghanistan. At that time they had not ex-
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