Hemidactylus hemchandrai DANDGE & TIPLE, 2015

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Higher Taxa	Gekkonidae, Gekkota, Sauria, Squamata (lizards: geckos)
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Common Names
Synonym	Hemidactylus hemchandrai DANDGE & TIPLE 2015
Distribution	India (Maharashtra) Type locality: India, Maharashtra, Bhandara: unprotected peripheral region of the Navega- on Bandh National Park (Fig. 1); 20°54’55.5’’ N 80°06’14.6’’ E
Reproduction	oviparous (manual imputation, fide Zimin et al. 2022)
Types	Holotype: ZSI V-6218 (male); date of collection 15GVG2014. Leg. Mr. Parag H. Dandge. Deposited in National Zoological Collection of Zoological Survey of India, Central Zone Regional Centre, Jabalpur 482002, India (note that Dandge & Tiple 2015 erroneously said that specimen was still under study; P. Dandge, pers. comm., 3 Feb 2016). Paratype (1 male, 1 female) ZSI V-6219. Para- type collected from the same locality. Leg. Mr. Parag H. Dandge. Deposited in National Zoological Collection of Zoological Survey of India, Central Zone Regional Centre, Jabalpur-482 002, India
Diagnosis	Diagnosis: A medium-sized Hemidactylus, SVL 63 to 86 mm. 12 to 15 rows of irregularly arranged, flattened to weakly conical tubercles. First supralabial contacting nostril narrowly. Two well-developed pairs of postmentals, the inner pair larger and in broad contact behind mental. 40 – 41 scale rows across venter between lowest rows of tubercles. 9 lamellae on first digit of pes, 14 lamellae on fourth digit of pes. 10 to 11 femoral pores on each thigh, separated by 5 to 6 scale, tail depressed, oval in trans- verse section, 6 to 7 tubercle present on the first segment of the tail, tail tuberculate with a median dorsal furrow; a single median row of transversely enlarged subcaudal plates started from second segment of the tail. Additional details (4965 characters) are available for collaborators and contributors. Please contact us for details.
Comment	Abundance: only known from its original description (Meiri et al. 2017).
Etymology	The species name hemchandrai is derived from the first author’s (PHD) late father’s name.
References	Dandge, Parag Hemchandra; Ashish Diliprao Tiple 2015. A New Species of Rupicolus Gecko of the Genus Hemidactylus Oken, 1817 (Reptilia: Squamata: Gekkonidae) from Maharashtra, Central India. Russ. J. Herpetol. 22 (3): 233-240 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 Zimin, A., Zimin, S. V., Shine, R., Avila, L., Bauer, A., Böhm, M., Brown, R., Barki, G., de Oliveira Caetano, G. H., Castro Herrera, F., Chapple, D. G., Chirio, L., Colli, G. R., Doan, T. M., Glaw, F., Grismer, L. L., Itescu, Y., Kraus, F., LeBreton 2022. A global analysis of viviparity in squamates highlights its prevalence in cold climates. Global Ecology and Biogeography, 00, 1–16 - get paper here
External links	IUCN Red List National Center for Biotechnology Information Google images

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