Hemidactylus multisulcatus SAYYED, KIRUBAKARAN, KHOT, ADHIKARI, SAYYED, SAYYED, PURKAYASTHA, DESHPANDE, SULAKHE, 2023
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Hemidactylus multisulcatus
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| Higher Taxa | Gekkonidae, Gekkota, Sauria, Squamata (lizards: geckos) |
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| Synonym | Hemidactylus multisulcatus SAYYED, KIRUBAKARAN, KHOT, ADHIKARI, SAYYED, SAYYED, PURKAYASTHA, DESHPANDE, SULAKHE 2023 |
| Distribution | India (Tamil Nadu) Type locality: wall of SVN college, near Nagamalai, (9° 56' 12.6168'' N 78° 2' 38.8752'' E; ca. 168.6 m asl.), Madurai District, Tamil Nadu, India |
| Reproduction | |
| Types | Holotype. An adult male, BNHS 2918, collected by Amit Sayyed and Samson Kirubakaran on 27 January 2023. Paratype. An adult male, BNHS 2919 and an adult female, BNHS 2920; collection details same as the holotype. |
| Diagnosis | Diagnosis. A medium-sized gecko of the genus Hemidactylus, snout to vent length less than 84 mm (n = 3); 11 supralabials; 9–10 infralabials; dorsal pholidosis heterogenous, composed of small, granular, round, smooth scales intermixed with enlarged, much regularly arranged, strongly keeled, slightly pointed enlarged tubercles, two rows of enlarged tubercles on the paravertebral region smaller than those on mid-body enlarged shell or bivalve-like tubercles, few slightly small on lower flanks; shell or bivalve-like enlarged tubercles adorned with multiple grooves; 25–27 paravertebral tubercles between forelimb and hind limb insertions; mid-dorsal enlarged tubercles 17–19; scales on the snout, canthus rostralis, forehead and inter-orbital re-gion round, juxtaposed; periocular scales weakly keeled, much larger than those on snout; single elongated, enlarged supranasal on each side, separated from each other by two vertically arranged, small, round scales; scales on ventral surface of neck, chest, arm, pes and tail smooth, cycloid, mid-ventral scales 161–177, mid-body scales 35–36 across the belly between the lowest rows of dorsal scales; ten or eleven lamellae under digit IV of manus and pes; males with continuous series of 18–20 femoral pores (n = 2), six or seven poreless scales between femoral pores; dorsal scales of thigh and tibia small, granular, smooth, intermixed with regularly arranged, keeled enlarged tubercle; postcloacal spur absent on each side; dorsal scales at tail base and on tail small, granular scales similar in size and shape to those on mid-body dorsum, gradually becoming larger, intermixed with series of 4–6 much enlarged, pointed, keeled, conical tubercles forming whorls; ventral scales at tail base subequal, smooth, imbricate, fairly larger than mid-body ventral scales; ventral scales with a median row of large, undivided, rectangular, plate-like subcaudal scales covering almost entire portion of the tail; median row bordered laterally by one or two rows of large, smooth, imbricate triangular scales, four brown circular faint blotches on dorsal body between neck and hind limb insertion. (Sayyed et al. 2023) |
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| Etymology | The specific epithet indicates the unique shell or bivalve-like enlarged tubercles adorned with multiple grooves. In Latin (sulcus = groove) and English, multiple grooves = multisulcatus. |
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