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Cnemaspis australis MANAMENDRA-ARACHCHI, BATUWITA & PETHIYAGODA, 2007

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Higher TaxaGekkonidae, Gekkota, Sauria, Squamata (lizards: geckos)
Subspecies 
Common Names 
SynonymCnemaspis australis MANAMENDRA-ARACHCHI, BATUWITA & PETHIYAGODA 2007 
DistributionSW India (Tamil Nadu)

Type locality: “Tinnevelly” (= Tirunelveli District, Tamil Nadu State, south-western India),  
Reproductionoviparous 
TypesHolotype: BMNH 82.5.22.67 (male), 30.4 mm SVL; purchased from Col. Beddome (formerly a syntype of Cnemaspis tropidogaster). 
DiagnosisDiagnosis: Cnemaspis australis differs from its peninsular Indian and Sri Lankan congeners by a combination of the following characters. Maximum SVL 30.4 mm; paired postmentals separated by 1 or 2 small scales; each postmental bounded by 3 scales including medial scale; dorsal scales heterogeneous with smooth and carinate scales; spine-like tubercles absent on flank; ventrals weakly keeled; 3 preanal and 4 or 5 femoral pores on each side; tail with enlarged conical scales forming whorls; subcaudals keeled, 2 smaller scales between single larger ones in median series; supralabials to angle of jaws, 8; subdigital lamellae on digit IV of pes, 15 [from MANAMENDRA-ARACHCHI et al. 2007]. 
CommentAbundance: only known from the type specimen (Meiri et al. 2017). 
EtymologyThe species name ‘australis’ is Latin for ‘southern’; an allusion to the type locality being very nearly at the southernmost tip of the Indian peninsula. 
References
  • Manamendra-Arachchi, Kelum; Batuwita, Sudesh & Pethiyagoda, Rohan 2007. A taxonomic revision of the Sri Lankan day-geckos (Reptilia: Gekkonidae: Cnemaspis), with description of new species from Sri Lanka and southern India. Zeylanica 7 (1): 9-122
  • Meiri, Shai; Aaron M. Bauer, Allen Allison, Fernando Castro-Herrera, Laurent Chirio, Guarino Colli, Indraneil Das, Tiffany M. Doan, Frank Glaw, Lee L. Grismer, Marinus Hoogmoed, Fred Kraus, Matthew LeBreton, Danny Meirte, Zoltán T. Nagy, Cristiano d 2017. Extinct, obscure or imaginary: the lizard species with the smallest ranges. Diversity and Distributions - get paper here
  • Venugopal, P.D. 2010. An updated and annotated list of Indian lizards (Reptilia: Sauria) based on a review of distribution records and checklists of Indian reptiles. Journal of Threatened Taxa 2 (3): 725-738. - get paper here
 
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