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Hemidactylus acanthopholis MIRZA & SANAP, 2014

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Higher TaxaGekkonidae, Gekkota, Sauria, Squamata (lizards: geckos)
Subspecies 
Common Names 
SynonymHemidactylus acanthopholis MIRZA & SANAP 2014
Hemidactylus cf. acanthopholis — GANESH & ARUMUGAM 2016
Hemidactylus acanthopholis — AMARASINGHE et al. 2021 
DistributionIndia (Tamil Nadu)

Type locality: Tirunelveli District (=Tinnevelly), Tamil Nadu, India  
Reproductionoviparous (manual imputation, fide Zimin et al. 2022) 
TypesHolotype: BMNH 1946.8.23.68 (74.4.29.1050); adult male (91.7mm SVL). coll. Colonel R. H. Beddome. Paratypes: adult male (82.2mm SVL), BMNH 1946.8.23.67 (74.4.29.1049) (may be Hemidactylus maculatus hunae fide P. Campbell, pers. comm., March 2019), Tirunelveli District, Tamil Nadu, India. coll. Colonel R. H. Beddome; adult male (108.6mm SVL), ZSI 12429, Tirunelveli District (=Tinnevelly), Tamil Nadu, India, purchased from E. Gerard; adult female (85.5mm SVL), BMNH 1946.8.23.69 (74.4.29.1051), Tirunelveli District, Tamil Nadu, India, coll. Colonel R. H. Beddome; adult female (79.8mm SVL), BNHS 1670, Kalakad-Mundanthurai Tiger Reserve, Tamil Nadu, India, coll. S. P. Vijayakumar. 
DiagnosisDiagnosis: A large sized Hemidactylus, SVL at least 91.7mm. Dorsal scalation on trunk granular, intermixed with enlarged, fairly regularly arranged longitudinal rows of 18–20 trihedral, moderately keeled, striated tubercles of equal size on dorso-lateral aspect, 2–3 rows tubercles on mid-dorsal smaller in size of about two dorsal granular scale wide. Two large rounded and one small internasal between nasals. Two pair of postmentals, anterior pair is twice as long and wide as the posterior pair. Scales on trunk venter arranged in 35–40 rows. Lamellae divided, 9, 11, 10, 10, 10 on manus and 10, 12, 12, 12, 12 on pes. Caudal pholidosis, dorsal aspect, small, striated scales intermixed with large rounded un-keeled tubercles, scales sub-equal throughout and a series of eight enlarged, moderately keeled and weakly striated and flattened tubercles. Femoral pores 19–21 on each side separated medially by 13–14 pore-less scales. 
Comment 
EtymologyThe specific epithet ‘acanthopholis’ means spiny scales which refer to the large keeled dorsal tubercles. 
References
  • 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
  • Ganesh, S. R.; M. Arumugam 2016. Species Richness of Montane Herpetofauna of Southern Eastern Ghats, India: A Historical Resume and a Descriptive Checklist. Russ. J. Herpetol. 23 (1): 7-24 - get paper here
  • GIRI, VARAD B.; AARON M. BAUER, PRATYUSH P. MOHAPATRA, CHELMALA SRINIVASULU, ISHAN AGARWAL 2017. A new species of large-bodied, tuberculate Hemidactylus Oken (Squamata: Gekkonidae) from the Eastern Ghats, India. Zootaxa 4347 (2): 331-345 - get paper here
  • Mirza, Zeeshan A.; Harshal Bhosale, Rishikesh Patil 2017. A new large species of gecko of the genus Hemidactylus Oken, 1817 (Reptilia: Sauria: Gekkonidae) from the Eastern Ghats, India. Comptes Rendus Biologies - get paper here
  • Mirza, Zeeshan A; Rajesh V Sanap 2014. A new Cryptic species of Gecko of the genus Hemidactylus Oken, 1817 (Reptilia: Gekkonidae) from Southern India. Taprobanica 6 (1): 12-20 - get paper here
  • 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
  • Zimin, A., Zimin, S. V., Shine, R., Avila, L., Bauer, A., Böhm, M., Brown, R., Barki, G., de Oliveira Caetano, G. H., Castro Herrera, F., Chapple, D. G., Chirio, L., Colli, G. R., Doan, T. M., Glaw, F., Grismer, L. L., Itescu, Y., Kraus, F., LeBreton 2022. A global analysis of viviparity in squamates highlights its prevalence in cold climates. Global Ecology and Biogeography, 00, 1–16 - get paper here
 
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