Dutta's Mahendragiri gecko
| Dutta's Mahendragiri gecko | |
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| Dutta's Mahendragiri gecko from Simhachalam hills | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Reptilia |
| Order: | Squamata |
| Family: | Gekkonidae |
| Genus: | Hemidactylus |
| Species: | H. sushilduttai
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| Binomial name | |
| Hemidactylus sushilduttai Giri, Bauer, Mohapatra, Srinivasulu & Agarwal, 2017
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Dutta's Mahendragiri gecko (Hemidactylus sushilduttai) is a species of large-bodied, tuberculate gecko, found in Andhra Pradesh in India.[2][3][4]
Anatomy
[edit]It has a snout to vent length up to at least 105 mm.[3][5] It is also characterized by a dorsal scalation of small granules intermixed with large, pointed, trihedral tubercles that form 16–17 fairly regularly arranged longitudinal rows at midbody; 9–11 subdigital lamellae below the first and 11–13 below the fourth digit; 6–8 strongly pointed and keeled enlarged tubercles on the original tail; 20–23 femoral pores separated by 4 poreless scales in males; 11–13 supralabials and 9–11 infralabials.[3]
References
[edit]- ^ "Hemidactylus sushilduttai | IUCN RedList". iucnredlist.org.
- ^ Chatterjee, Badri (25 November 2017). "New species of gecko discovered in Andhra Pradesh after 5-year study". Hindustan Times. Retrieved 29 November 2017.
- ^ a b c "Hemidactylus sushilduttai • A New Species of Large-bodied, Tuberculate Hemidactylus Oken (Squamata: Gekkonidae) from the Eastern Ghats, India". Novataxa. Retrieved 29 November 2017.
- ^ "New species of gecko found in Andhra Pradesh". The Times of India. 26 November 2017. Retrieved 29 November 2017.
- ^ Giri, Varad B.; Bauer, Aaron M.; Mohapatra, Pratyush P.; Srinivasulu, Chelmala; Agarwal, Ishan (2017-11-13). "A new species of large-bodied, tuberculate Hemidactylus Oken (Squamata: Gekkonidae) from the Eastern Ghats, India". Zootaxa. 4347 (2): 331–345. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.4347.2.8. ISSN 1175-5334. PMID 29245598.