Eublepharis angramainyu

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| image = Eublepharis angramainyu.JPG

| status = DD

| status_system = IUCN3.1

| status_ref = {{cite iucn |author=Varol Tok, Ishmail Ugurtas, Murat Sevinç, Wolfgang Böhme, Pierre-André Crochet, Roberto Sindaco, Uğur Kaya, Steven Anderson, Ferdi Akarsu |date=2009 |title=Eublepharis angramainyu |volume=2009 |page=e.T164608A5911945 |doi=10.2305/IUCN.UK.2009.RLTS.T164608A5911945.en |access-date=18 November 2021}}

| genus = Eublepharis

| species = angramainyu

| authority = Anderson & Leviton, 1966

| range_map = Eublepharis angramainyu in Iran.png

| range_map_caption = Range in Iran.[http://www.irandeserts.com/content/%D8%AF%D8%B1%DA%AF%D8%A7%D9%87_%DA%A9%D9%88%DB%8C%D8%B1/%D9%BE%D9%88%D8%B4%D8%B4_%D8%AC%D8%A7%D9%86%D9%88%D8%B1%DB%8C/%D8%AE%D8%B2%D9%86%D8%AF%DA%AF%D8%A7%D9%86_%D8%A7%D9%8A%D8%B1%D8%A7%D9%86_%D8%B1%D8%A7%D8%B3%D8%AA%D9%87_%D9%85%D8%A7%D8%B1%D9%85%D9%88%D9%84%D9%83%D9%87%D8%A7_/%D8%AE%D8%A7%D9%86%D9%88%D8%A7%D8%AF%D9%87_%D8%AC%DA%A9%D9%88%D9%87%D8%A7%DB%8C_%D9%BE%D9%84%D9%86%DA%AF%DB%8C_eublepharidae_family/%D8%AC%DA%A9%D9%88%DB%8C_%D9%BE%D9%84%D9%86%DA%AF%DB%8C_%D8%BA%D8%B1%D8%A8%DB%8C.htm irandeserts.com]

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Eublepharis angramainyu, also known as the Iranian fat-tailed gecko or Iraqi eyelid gecko, is a nocturnal ground dwelling lizard native to Iraq, Iran, Turkey and Syria.{{Cite web|date=2020-03-05|title=Iranian Fat-tailed Gecko|url=https://nationalzoo.si.edu/animals/iranian-fat-tailed-gecko|access-date=2021-12-21|website=Smithsonian's National Zoo|language=en}} Its diet is insectivorous but may eat smaller vertebrates. Like most lizards it has the ability to shed its tail (autotomy).

The Iraqi eyelid gecko has a continuous light vertebral stripe extending from the occiput to the base of the tail, bordered on each side by broken black stripes. {{Cite journal |last1=Moradi |first1=Naeim |last2=Shafiei |first2=Soheila |date=November 2011 |title=New record of the Western leopard gecko, Eublepharis angramainyu Anderson & Leviton, 1966 (Sauria: Eublepharidae) from southeastern Iran |url=https://amphibian-reptile-conservation.org/pdfs/Volume/Vol_5_no_1/ARC_5_1_88-91_e36_high_res.pdf |journal=Amphibian & Reptile Conservation |volume=5 |issue=4 |pages=88–91}}{{Cite journal |last1=TOSUNOGLU |first1=Murât |last2=AYAZ |first2=Dincer |last3=OLGUN |first3=Kurtuluç |last4=AFSAR |first4=Murat |date=October 15, 2004 |title=Morphology of Eublepharis angramainyu ANDERSON & LEVITON, 1966 in Turkey |url=https://www.zobodat.at/pdf/HER_18_1_2_0061-0062.pdf |journal=Herpetozoa |volume=1 |pages=61–62}}{{Cite journal |last1=Anderson |first1=Steven C. |last2=Leviton |first2=Alan E. |date=January 20, 1966 |title=A NEW SPECIES OF EUBLEPHARIS FROM SOUTHWESTERN IRAN (REPTILIA: GEKKONIDAE) |url=https://ia804608.us.archive.org/25/items/biostor-71528/biostor-71528.pdf |journal=Occasional Papers of the California Academy of Sciences}}