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Cnemaspis ajijae SAYYED, PYRON & DILEEPKUMAR, 2018

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Higher TaxaGekkonidae, Gekkota, Sauria, Squamata (lizards: geckos)
Subspecies 
Common NamesE: Ajija’s Day Gecko 
SynonymCnemaspis ajijae SAYYED, PYRON & DILEEPKUMAR 2018: 8 
DistributionIndia (Maharashtra)

Type locality: beside a dry stream surrounded by dense forest, at Mahabaleshwar (17.545 N, 73.403 E; 1,377 m elevation), Satara district, Maharashtra, India  
Reproductionoviparous (manual imputation, fide Zimin et al. 2022) 
TypesHolotype: BNHS 2456, adult male; collected by hand at night on 15 November, 2015, on a tree trunk . Paratypes: ZSI-WRC R/1054, ZSI-WRC R/1056 (male), and ZSI-WRC R/1055 (female) share the same data and same locality as the holotype and ZSI-WRC R/1057 (male) and ZSI-WRC R/1058 (female), in the dense forest at Mahabaleshwar (17.553N, 73.391E; 1,291 m asl), Satara district, Maharashtra, India, collected on 15 November, 2015; ZSI-WRC R/1059, ZSI-WRC R/1060 (male), and BNHS 2457 (female), Panchgani (17.554N, 73.483E; 1,323 m asl), Satara district, Maharashtra, In- dia, collected on 29 October, 2015. 
DiagnosisDiagnosis: A medium sized Cnemaspis, SVL less than 37 mm. Dorsal scales on trunk heterogeneous; granular, keeled scales intermixed with large keeled, depressed scales; conical and spine-like tubercles absent on flank; ventral scales larger than dorsal, smooth; 29–30 scales across belly between lowest rows of dorsal scales; three pairs of postmentals, primary larger than others, secondary postmentals touching first and second infralabials; third chinshield smaller than second; 7–8 lamellae on digit I of manus and 9–12 on digit IV, 7–8 on digit I of pes and 10–13 on digit IV; males with three or four femoral pores, pre-anal pore absent; median row of subcaudals smooth, imbricate not enlarged; small triangular tubercles along each side present in both sexes; very small acute, prominent tubercles with small keeled scales on dorsal tail.


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CommentHabitat: dense evergreen forest, as well as in the human habitation, beside a dry stream surrounded by dense forest

Sympatry: Hemidactylus sp., Trimeresurus mal- abaricus, Trimeresurus gramineus, Boiga trigonata, Ly- codon aulicus, and L. travancoricus. 
EtymologySpecific epithet is a patronym in honor of Mrs. Ajija Sayyed, mother of the first author. 
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
  • KHANDEKAR, AKSHAY; TEJAS THACKERAY & ISHAN AGARWAL 2019. Two more new species of Cnemaspis Strauch, 1887 (Squamata: Gekkonidae) from the northern Western Ghats, Maharashtra, India. Zootaxa 4656 (1): 043–070 - get paper here
  • Kwet, A. 2019. Liste der im Jahr 2018 neu beschriebenen Reptilien. Elaphe 2019 (3): 52-72
  • Sayyed A, Pyron RA, Dileepkumar R. 2018. Four new species of the genus Cnemaspis Strauch, (Sauria: Gekkonidae) from the northern Western Ghats, India. Amphibian & Reptile Conservation 12(2) [General Section]: 1–29 (e157) - get paper here
  • 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
  • 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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