Cnemaspis rajgadensis SAYYED, CYRIAC, PARDESHI & SULAKHE, 2021

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Higher Taxa	Gekkonidae, Gekkota, Sauria, Squamata (lizards: geckos)
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Common Names
Synonym	Cnemaspis rajgadensis SAYYED, CYRIAC, PARDESHI & SULAKHE 2021
Distribution	India (Maharashtra) Type locality: Rajgad fort, Pune District, Maharashtra, India
Reproduction
Types	Holotype: Holotype: India • ♂, adult; Rajgad fort, Pune District, Maharashtra State; 18°14'46N, 73°40'55E; 1324 m a.s.l.; 27 Sept. 2020; Amit Sayyed leg.; BNHS 3100. Paratypes: India • 2 ♀, adults; same data as for holotype; Abhijit Nale, Kiran Ahire and Mahesh Bandgar leg.; BNHS 3101, 3102
Diagnosis	Diagnosis: A small-sized Cnemaspis with adult SVL <27 mm,; 7–7 supralabials; 6–7 infralabials; dorsal scales heterogeneous with small, granular, weakly keeled scales, intermixed with randomly arranged, weakly keeled, slightly larger tubercles; conical and spine-like tubercles absent on either side of the flanks; dorsal paravertebral scales 80–92; mid-dorsal scales 62–67; ventral surface of neck, pectoral, abdominal region, under limbs, and tail weakly keeled; mid-ventral scales 123–141; ventral scales across mid-body 28–29;subdigital lamellae under fourth digit of manus 15, under fourth digit of pes 18; males with 3 femoral pores and absence of pre-cloacal pores; dorsal scales of tail granular, weakly keeled, roughly same in size and shape to those on mid-body dorsum, gradually becoming larger, flattened, blunt, subimbricate posteriorly, intermixed with whorls of slightly enlarged, strongly keeled tubercles; scales on ventral aspect of original tail imbricate, weakly keeled, without a series of enlarged sub-caudal scales, roughly same in size of those on dorsal tail; a single enlarged postcloacal spur on each side (Sayyed et al. 2021). Additional details (5120 characters) are available for collaborators and contributors. Please contact us for details.
Comment	Sympatry: Geckoella deccanensis (Günther), Hemidactylus maculatus Dumeril & Bibron and Hemidactylus cf. murrayi Gleadow.
Etymology	The species epithet is derived from the Rajgad fort of Pune District, Maharashtra, India, from where the type series was collected. Rajgad is a hill fort and historical place, which was the capital of the Maratha Empire under the rule of Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj for almost 26 years during the 17th century. Previously known as Murumdev, Rajgad fort is located around 60 km to the south-west of Pune and about 15 km west of Nasrapur village in the range of northern Western Ghats.
References	KHANDEKAR, A., GAIKWAD, S. M., THACKERAY, T., GANGALMALE, S., & AGARWAL, I. 2024. A preliminary taxonomic revision of the girii clade of South Asian Cnemaspis Strauch, 1887 (Squamata: Gekkonidae) with the description of four new species from southern Maharashtra, India. Zootaxa, 5429 (1): 1-114 - get paper here KHANDEKAR, A., THACKERAY, T., AGARWAL, I., GANGALMALE, S., KININGE, S., & GAIKWAD, S. M. 2024. Two new species of South Asian Cnemaspis Strauch, 1887 (Squamata: Gekkonidae) from the far northern peaks of the Western Ghats, India. Zootaxa, 5463(4): 451-478 Sayyed, A., Cyriac, V. P., Pardeshi, A., & Sulakhe, S. 2021. Dwarfs of the fortress: A new cryptic species of dwarf gecko of the genus Cnemaspis Strauch, 1887 (Squamata, Gekkonidae) from Rajgad fort in the northern Western Ghats of Maharashtra, India. Evolutionary Systematics, 5: 25 - get paper here
External links	National Center for Biotechnology Information http://zoobank.org/E4F61F55-8716-4BF3-9951-7728B24056EF Google images

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