Dravidogecko septentrionalis CHAITANYA, GIRI, DEEPAK, DATTA-ROY, MURTHY & KARANTH, 2019
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Dravidogecko septentrionalis
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| Higher Taxa | Gekkonidae, Gekkota, Sauria, Squamata (lizards: geckos) |
| Subspecies | |
| Common Names | E: Wayanad Dravidogecko |
| Synonym | Dravidogecko septentrionalis CHAITANYA, GIRI, DEEPAK, DATTA-ROY, MURTHY & KARANTH 2019 Hemidactylus anamallensis — BAUER & RUSSELL 1995 Hemidactylus anamallensis — PHILIP et al. 2011 [non Gecko anamallensis GÜNTHER 1875] Hemidactylus anamallensis — BANSAL & KARANTH 2013 [non Gecko anamallensis GÜNTHER 1875] |
| Distribution | India (Kerala) Type locality: Lakkidi village (11.5184°N, 76.0451°E; ca. 873 m asl.), Wayanad District, Kerala |
| Reproduction | |
| Types | Holotype. BNHS 2340, an adult male, collected by B.H.C.K Murthy and RC on 27th November, 2016. Paratypes: Details of collection same as the holotype. BNHS 2341, BNHS 2342, BNHS 2344, ZSIK 2971, ZSIK 2972, ZSIK 2975 adult females; BNHS 2343, ZSIK 2973, ZSIK 2974 adult males. |
| Diagnosis | Diagnosis: Snout-vent length up to 56.9 mm (n=10); internasals separated by 2 smaller scales; two pairs of well-developed postmentals, inner pair slightly longer than the outer, briefly in contact with each other behind mental, bordered by mental, infralabial I, outer postmentals and 2 or 3 gular scales. ventral scales counted at midbody, 30–35; precloacofemoral pores, 52–56 (n=4); subdigital lamellae under digit IV of ma- nus, 7–10 and under digit IV of pes, 10–13; supralabials, 8–10 and infralabials, 7–10 on each side. Dravidogecko septentrionalis sp. nov., though closely allied to D. anamallensis, can be easily distinguished from the latter by the presence of a greater number of precloacofemoral pores, (PcFP 52–56 versus 45 or 46), a greater num- ber of ventral scales (VS 30–35 versus 25–28) and number of scales between the internasals (two versus one). |
| Comment | Genetic divergence (p-distance). Dravidogecko septentrionalis sp. nov. exhibits 0.3% intraspecific variation, and is 5.0–6.5 % divergent from D. anamallensis (Table 9 in Chaitanya et al. 2019). Habitat: The type-series of Dravidogecko septentrionalis sp. nov. was collected from outer compound walls of buildings in Lakkidi village in the western part of the Wayanad plateau. The abutting veg- etation is predominantly mid-elevation evergreen forests that get ca. 3500mm–6000mm of annual rainfall (Anu & Sabu 2007). They were found only in areas that were above 850 m asl and seem to be restricted to isolated hillocks with conducive ecological conditions. |
| Etymology | The specific epithet is an adjective in the nominative case derived from the Latin for ‘northern’, referring to the distribution of this species to the north of the Palghat Gap. |
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