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Cnemaspis triedra SAYYED, KIRUBAKARAN, KHOT, ABINESH, HARSHAN, ADHIKARI, SAYYED, SAYYED, FAZIL, JERITH, DESHPANDE, PURKAYASTHA & SULAKHE, 2023

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Higher TaxaGekkonidae, Gekkota, Sauria, Squamata (lizards: geckos)
Subspecies 
Common NamesE: Painted Dwarf Gecko 
SynonymCnemaspis triedra SAYYED, KIRUBAKARAN, KHOT, ABINESH, HARSHAN, ADHIKARI, SAYYED, SAYYED, FAZIL, JERITH, DESHPANDE, PURKAYASTHA & SULAKHE 2023: 304 
DistributionIndia (Tamil Nadu)

Type locality: on a rock near the cashew plantation Melur (10.080769°N, 78.24219°E; alt. 242 m a.s.l.), near Alagarkovil, Madurai District, Tamil Nadu, India.  
Reproduction 
TypesHolotype. Adult male, BNHS 2912 (28.6 SVL); collected by Amit Sayyed on 03 October 2022.
Paratypes. Adult male, BNHS 2913 (29.1 SVL), and adult female, BNHS 2914 (29.2 SVL); collected on 21 January 2023, by Amit Sayyed and Samson Kirubakaran, locality data same as holotype. 
DiagnosisDiagnosis: A small-sized Cnemaspis with adult SVL <30mm; dorsal scales heterogeneous; scales small, granular, weakly keeled, intermixed with randomly arranged, weakly keeled, larger tubercles, similar on flanks; enlarged tubercles on the dorsal body are three to four times larger than the granular scales; conical and spine-like tubercles absent on both sides of the flanks; 6 supralabials; 6–7 infralabials; mid-dorsal scales 54–55; scales on snout and canthus rostralis smooth, much larger than those on forehead and interorbital region; scales on nape and occiput granular, unkeeled, smaller than those on paravertebral rows, intermixed with randomly arranged, larger conical tubercles; scales on ventral surface of head, neck, chest, arm and pes smooth, cycloid; mid-ventral scales 109–115, midbody scales 29–30; subdigital lamellae under fourth digit of manus 10–12, under fourth digit of pes 10–11; males with 4–5 femoral pores on each thigh, single precloacal pore, eight to eleven poreless scales between precloacal and femoral pores; dorsal scales of limbs granular, weakly keeled; dorsal scales on tail keeled, granular, intermixed with enlarged, strongly keeled, distinctly pointed, conical tubercles; scales on ventral aspect of tail large, subimbricate, smooth; median series distinctly larger than rest; a single enlarged, conical postcloacal spur on each side; a small circular central black dorsal ocellus on occiput; a large black ocellus on posterior neck, flanked anteriorly on each side by a faint black ocellus. (Sayyed et al. 2023)


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Comment 
EtymologyThe specific epithet is an adjective referring to the combination of three colour patterns on the dorsal body of the gecko. 
References
  • SAYYED, A., KIRUBANKARAN, S., KHOT, R., HARSAN, S., ADHIKARI, O., SAYYED, A., SAYYED, M., FAZIL, A., JERITH, A., DESHPANDE, S. and PURKAYASTHA, J., 2023. Two new species of Cnemaspis Strauch, 1887 (Squamata: Gekkonidae) from southern India. Zootaxa 5374 (3): 301-332
 
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