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Cnemaspis agayagangai AGARWAL, THACKERAY & KHANDEKAR, 2022

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Higher TaxaGekkonidae, Gekkota, Sauria, Squamata (lizards: geckos)
Subspecies 
Common NamesE: Agaya Gangai dwarf gecko 
SynonymCnemaspis agayagangai AGARWAL, THACKERAY & KHANDEKAR 2022: 1151 
DistributionIndia (Tamil Nadu)

Type locality: near Agaya Gangai waterfalls (11.2640°N, 78.3925°E; ca. 860 m asl.), Kolli hills, Namakkal district, Tamil Nadu state, India.  
Reproduction 
TypesHolotype. NRC-AA-1213 (AK 699), adult male; collected by Akshay Khandekar, Swapnil Pawar, and Tejas Thackeray on 29th May 2019.
Paratypes. NRC-AA-1215 (AK 267), NRC-AA-1214 (AK 268), adult males, same collection data as holotype; NRC-AA-1216 (AK 269), NRC-AA-1217 (AK 270) adult males, NRC-AA-1218 (AK 700), adult female, from near Arappaleeswarar temple (11.2645°N, 78.3906°E; ca. 940 m asl.); and NRC-AA-1220 (AK 702), adult male, NRC-AA-1219 (AK 701), NRC-AA-1221 (AK 703) adult females, from near Agaya Gangai waterfalls (11.2656°N, 78.3943°E; ca. 780 m asl.), collected by Akshay Khandekar, Ishan Agarwal, Nikhil Gaitonde on 20th December 2018. 
DiagnosisDiagnosis: A small-sized Cnemaspis, snout to vent length up to 31.8 mm (n = 9). Dorsal pholidosis heterogeneous; weakly keeled granular scales intermixed with a fairly regularly arranged rows of enlarged, strongly keeled, conical tubercles; last one or two rows of enlarged tubercles on flank weakly keeled, spine-like; 10–12 rows of dorsal tubercles at mid-body, 14–18 tubercles in paravertebral rows; ventral scales smooth, subcircular, subimbricate, subequal from chest to vent, 28–34 scales across belly at mid-body, 106–120 longitudinal scales from mental to cloaca; subdigital scansors smooth, unpaired, unnotched; 9–11 lamellae under digit I of manus and 9–12 lamellae under digit I of pes; 14–16 lamellae under digit IV of manus and 17–20 lamellae under digit IV of pes; males (n = 6/9) with four or five femoral pores on each thigh separated by 8–10 poreless scales from series of two precloacal pores, precloacal pores separated medially by single (rarely 2, n = 1/6) poreless scales; tail with enlarged, strongly keeled, pointed, and spine-like tubercles forming whorls; median row of subcaudals smooth, roughly rectangular, and distinctly enlarged. Dorsum orange, mottled with numerous small light grey spots and fine black spots, light grey vertebral blotches sometimes distinct; a single central black dorsal ocellus each on neck and occiput separated by a light grey blotch, ocellus on neck flanked anteriorly on each side by a slightly larger ocellus, ocellus on occiput sometimes flanked on each side by smaller, indistinct ocellus; venter off-white with black speckles, two indistinct pairs of streaks on throat; original tail in males with about 8–10 alternating dark and light grey bands, regenerated tail orange-brown. (Agarwal et al. 2022)


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Comment 
EtymologyThe specific epithet is for the type locality of the new species, the Agaya Gangai Waterfalls, and is used as a noun in apposition 
References
  • Agarwal I, Thackeray T, Khandekar A 2022. A multitude of spots! Five new microendemic species of the Cnemaspis gracilis group (Squamata: Gekkonidae) from massifs in the Shevaroy landscape, Tamil Nadu, India. Vertebrate Zoology 72: 1137-1186 - get paper here
  • Kwet, A. 2023. Liste der im Jahr 2022 neu beschriebenen Reptilien. Elaphe 2023 (3): 48-73
 
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