“…We additionally retrieved from GenBank (from the studies of Carranza et al., ; Simó‐Riudalbas et al., ) sequences of all the other Arabian Asaccus species (i.e., A. arnoldi , A. caudivolvulus, A. gallagheri, A. gardneri, A. margaritae, and A. platyrhynchus ) and of other Asaccus species from Iran (i.e., A. elisae, A. griseonotus, and A. nasrullahi ). The monophyly and phylogenetic position of Asaccus within Phyllodactylidae has been established in previous studies (Gamble, Bauer, Greenbaum, & Jackman, ; Gamble et al., ; Gamble, Greenbaum, Jackman, Russell, & Bauer, ; Gamble, Greenbaum, Jackman, & Bauer, ; Garcia‐Porta, Morales, Gómez‐Díaz, Sindaco, & Carranza, ; Machado et al., in press); we thus included as outgroup two specimens of Haemodracon , its phylogenetic sister genus. All new sequences obtained in this study were deposited in GenBank (accession numbers MH752841–MH752979).…”