Dutta's Mahendragiri gecko

Dutta's Mahendragiri gecko (Hemidactylus sushilduttai) is a species of large-bodied, tuberculate gecko, found in Andhra Pradesh in India.[2][3][4]

Dutta's Mahendragiri gecko
Dutta's Mahendragiri gecko from Simhachalam hills
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Reptilia
Order: Squamata
Family: Gekkonidae
Genus: Hemidactylus
Species:
H. sushilduttai
Binomial name
Hemidactylus sushilduttai
Giri, Bauer, Mohapatra, Srinivasulu & Agarwal, 2017

Anatomy

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
  1. "Hemidactylus sushilduttai | IUCN RedList". iucnredlist.org.
  2. Chatterjee, Badri (25 November 2017). "New species of gecko discovered in Andhra Pradesh after 5-year study". Hindustan Times. Retrieved 29 November 2017.
  3. "Hemidactylus sushilduttai • A New Species of Large-bodied, Tuberculate Hemidactylus Oken (Squamata: Gekkonidae) from the Eastern Ghats, India". Novataxa. Retrieved 29 November 2017.
  4. "New species of gecko found in Andhra Pradesh". The Times of India. 26 November 2017. Retrieved 29 November 2017.
  5. 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.


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