Cyrtodactylus irulaorum AGARWAL, THACKERAY & KHANDEKAR, 2023
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Cyrtodactylus irulaorum
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| Higher Taxa | Gekkonidae, Gekkota, Sauria, Squamata (lizards: geckos) |
| Subspecies | |
| Common Names | E: Irula Geckoella |
| Synonym | Cyrtodactylus irulaorum AGARWAL, THACKERAY & KHANDEKAR 2023 |
| Distribution | India (Tamil Nadu) Type locality: farm near Vallam Reserve Forest (12.6920°N, 80.0263°E; ca. 55 m asl.), Kancheepuram District, Tamil Nadu, India |
| Reproduction | |
| Types | Holotype. NRC-AA-1266 (CES09/1438), adult male, collected by Ishan Agarwal on 10th April 2013. Paratypes. NRC-AA-1267 (CES09/1437), NRC-AA-1268 (CES09/1439), NRC-AA-1269 (CES09/1440), NRC-AA-1270 (CES09/1441), adult males, same collection data as holotype; NRC-AA-1272 (AK 105), NRC-AA-1273 (AK 106), adult females, same collection data as holotype except collected by Ishan Agarwal, Akshay Khandekar, R. Chaitanya and Caleb Daniel on 11th November 2017; NRC-AA-1271 (IAG 193), adult female, from Thervoy Kandigai (13.3713°N, 79.9791°E; ca. 30 m asl.), Tiruvallur District, Tamil Nadu, India, collected by R. Chaitanya on date 14th December 2015. |
| Diagnosis | Diagnosis. A small-sized Cyrtodactylus (Geckoella), snout to vent length up to 51 mm (n = 8); tail shorter than SVL. Dorsal pholidosis on trunk homogeneous; covered with smooth, subcircular, weakly conical granular scales; scales on occiput and nape slightly smaller and more rounded than those on body dorsum, scales on flank slightly larger than those on dorsum; ventral scales much larger than dorsal scales, smooth, somewhat elongate, subimbricate, subequal from chest to vent; femoral and precloacal pores absent; enlarged precloacal or femoral scales absent, no precloacal groove; four pairs of dark rounded spots from behind occiput to hindlimb insertions, spots occasionally fused along mid-vertebral line forming horizontal figure 8-shaped marking; post-occipital collar broken into a pair of spots. |
| Comment | |
| Etymology | NAmed after the Irula tribe, an indigenous Dravidian group who are expert snake trackers and catchers. Romulus Whitaker, whose farm the type series was collected at, has worked closely with the Irulas for decades and helped them set up a venom extraction cooperative in 1978. The Irula Snake Catchers’ Industrial Cooperative Society is the largest contributor to antivenom production in India. |
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