Dutta's Mahendragiri gecko

Dutta's Mahendragiri gecko
Dutta's Mahendragiri gecko from Simhachalam hills
Conservation status
Least Concern  (IUCN 3.1) [1]
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Reptilia
Order:	Squamata
Infraorder:	Gekkota
Family:	Gekkonidae
Genus:	Hemidactylus
Species:	H. sushilduttai
Binomial name
Hemidactylus sushilduttai Giri, Bauer, Mohapatra, Srinivasulu & Agarwal, 2017

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

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.