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Hemidactylus maculatus DUMÉRIL & BIBRON, 1836

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Higher TaxaGekkonidae, Gekkota, Sauria, Squamata (lizards: geckos)
Subspecies 
Common NamesE: Spotted Leaf-toed Gecko, Giant Spotted Gecko
G: Gefleckter Halbfingergecko 
SynonymHemidactylus maculatus DUMÉRIL & BIBRON 1836: 358
Hemidactylus sykesii GÜNTHER 1864 (fide SMITH 1935)
Hemidactylus maculatus — BOULENGER 1885: 132
Hemidactylus maculatus — SMITH 1935: 83
Hemidactylus maculatus — WERMUTH 1965: 80
Hemidactylus maculatus — KLUGE 1993
Hemidactylus maculatus — RÖSLER 2000: 87
Hemidactylus maculatus — AMARASINGHE et al. 2021 
DistributionIndia (Gujarat, Maharashtra, Tamil Nadu, Kerala)

Type locality: restricted to Bombay by SMITH 1935.  
Reproductionoviparous 
TypesSyntypes: MNHN-RA 0255, MNHN-RA 1228, MNHN-RA 2257-2258, MNHN-RA 2301, MNHN-RA 2301A-D, MNHn-RA 6586, MNHN-RA 6586A-C, MNHN-RA 6775 and MNHN-RA 6775A 
Diagnosis 
CommentSubspecies: Hemidactylus maculatus hunae DERANIYAGALA 197 has been elevated to full species status.

Original description in Amarasinghe et al. 2009.

Distribution: see map in Srinivasulu et al. 2018: 38 (Fig. 7). Reports from Tamil Nadu and Kerala may represent other (or yet undescribed) species after H. maculatus s. l. has been split up into multiple species (e.g. see map in Srinivasulu 2018).

Group: The Hemidactylus maculatus species complex consists of 11 species: H. maculatus, hunae, graniticolus, acanthopholis, kangerensis, kimbulae, sushilduttai, paaragowli, siva, vanam, kolliensis (Amarasinghe et al. 2021).

Characters: Amarasinghe et al. 2021 provide a character table for the 10 species of the maculatus complex (Table 1). 
References
  • AGARWAL, ISHAN;VARAD B. GIRI & AARON M. BAUER 2011. A new cryptic rock-dwelling Hemidactylus (Squamata: Gekkonidae) from south India. Zootaxa 2765: 21–37 - get paper here
  • Amarasinghe, A. A. T., A. M. Bauer, I. Ineich, J. Rudge, M. M. Bahir & D. E. Gabadage 2009. The original descriptions and figures of Sri Lankan gekkonid lizards (Squamata: Gekkonidae) of the 18th, 19th and 20th centuries. Taprobanica 1 (2): 83-106 - get paper here
  • Amarasinghe, A.A. Thasun; Suranjan Karunarathna, Patrick D. Campbell, Majintha Madawala, Anslem de Silva 2021. A New Species of Hemidactylus Goldfuss, 1820 (Reptilia: Gekkonidae) from Sri Lanka with Redescription of H. hunae Deraniyagala, 1937,. Herpetologica 77 (3): 259-272 - get paper here
  • Bansal, Rohini; K. Praveen Karanth 2010. Molecular phylogeny of Hemidactylus geckos (Squamata: Gekkonidae) of the Indian subcontinent reveals a unique Indian radiation and an Indian origin of Asian house geckos. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 57 (1): 459-465 - get paper here
  • Bauer, Aaron M.; Todd R. Jackman, Eli Greenbaum, Varad B. Giri, Anslem de Silva 2010. South Asia supports a major endemic radiation of Hemidactylus geckos. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 57 (1): 343-352 - get paper here
  • Bhupathy, Subramanian & N. Sathishkumar 2013. Status of reptiles in Meghamalai and its environs, Western Ghats, Tamil Nadu, India. Journal of Threatened Taxa 5 (15): 4953-4961 - get paper here
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  • Deraniyagala, P. E. P. 1937. A new gecko Hemidactylus maculatus hunae. Ceylon Journal of Science, 20:185-189.
  • Duméril, A.M. C. and G. Bibron. 1836. Erpetologie Générale ou Histoire Naturelle Complete des Reptiles. Vol. 3. Libr. Encyclopédique Roret, Paris, 528 pp. - get paper here
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  • Giri, Varad B.; Bauer, Aaron M. 2008. A new ground-dwelling Hemidactylus (Squamata: Gekkonidae) from Maharashtra, with a key to the Hemidactylus of India. Zootaxa 1700: 21-34 - get paper here
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  • Srinivasulu, Chelmala; Aditya Srinivasulu and Gandla Chethan Kumar 2018. A New Cryptic Rock-dwelling Hemidactylus Oken, 1817 (Squamata: Gekkonidae) from northern Karnataka, India. Zootaxa 4444 (1); 25–42. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4444.1.2 - get paper here
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