Cyrtopodion Fitzinger, 1843

A relatively species-rich genus (26 species; Uetz 2013) that previously encompassed also members of Mediodactylus and Tenuidactylus, in some studies treated as subgenera but currently recognized as distinct (see below). The Iranian species of Cyrtopodion (sensu stricto) were on the basis of morphological differentiation divided into two groups: the agamuroides group and the scabrum group (Szczerbak & Golubev 1986; Anderson 1999). The agamuroides group currently contains five species: C. agamuroides, C. gastropholis, C. golubevi, C. kiabii, and C. persepolense; four species are known to belong to the scabrum group: C. brevipes, C. kachhense, C. scabrum, and C. sistanense (Nazarov & Rajabizadeh 2007; Bauer et al. 2013). Cyrtopodion hormozganum was recognized as an intermediate form between the two groups (Nazarov et al. 2012), and the assignment of C. kirmanense is unknown.