Cnemaspis vangoghi KHANDEKAR, THACKERAY & AGARWAL, 2024
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Cnemaspis vangoghi
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| Higher Taxa | Gekkonidae, Gekkota, Sauria, Squamata (lizards: geckos) |
| Subspecies | |
| Common Names | E:Van Gogh’s starry dwarf gecko |
| Synonym | Cnemaspis vangoghi KHANDEKAR, THACKERAY & AGARWAL 2024: 215 |
| Distribution | India (Tamil Nadu) Type locality: near Neer Katha Ayyanar Kovil (9.5108°N, 77.4529°E; ca 250 m a.s.l.), Srivilliputhur-Meghamalai Tiger Reserve, Virudhunagar district, Tamil Nadu state, India |
| Reproduction | |
| Types | Holotype. NRC-AA-8342 (AK-R 1356), adult male; collected by Akshay Khandekar, Ishan Agarwal, Swapnil Pawar and team on 16 April 2022. Paratypes. NRC-AA-8343 (AK-R 1351), NRC-AA-8344 (AK-R 1352), adult males, same data as holotype; NRC-AA-8345 (AK-R 1358), adult female, from near Ayyanar Kovil waterfalls (9.5200°N, 77.4478°E; ca 400 m a.s.l.), same data as holotype; NRC-AA-8346 (AK-R 1373), NRC-AA-8347 (AK-R 1374), NRC-AA-8348 (AK-R 1380), adult males, from Settur Reserve Forest (9.4036°N, 77.3721°E; ca 350 m a.s.l.), same data as holotype except collected on 17 April 2022. |
| Diagnosis | Diagnosis: A small-sized Cnemaspis, snout to vent length ≤ 34 mm (n = 7). Dorsal pholidosis heterogeneous; smooth to weakly keeled granular scales intermixed with fairly regularly arranged rows of enlarged, weakly keeled, conical tubercles; 10 rows of dorsal tubercles at midbody, 7–14 tubercles in paravertebral rows; ventral scales subequal from chest to vent, smooth, subcircular and subimbricate with rounded end; 29–31 midventral scales across belly, 125–140 longitudinal ventral scales from mental to cloaca; subdigital scansors smooth, unnotched, some divided and others entire, a distinct enlarged metacarpal scale below digit I; 11–14 lamellae under digit I of manus and 11–13 under digit I of pes, 19–22 lamellae under digit IV of manus and 18–25 lamellae under digit IV of pes; males with continuous series of six or seven precloacal pores (n = 6); scales on non-regenerated tail dorsum heterogeneous; small, smooth, subcircular, flattened, subimbricate scales intermixed on anterior one third portion with enlarged, weakly keeled, and weakly conical tubercles forming seven whorls; six tubercles on first three whorl, four tubercles on fourth to seventh whorls, only a pair of paravertebral tubercles each on eighth to 11th whorls; rest of the tail lacking enlarged tubercles; median row of subcaudals smooth, roughly rectangular, distinctly enlarged, with condition of two enlarged scales alternating with a divided scale. Males with ochre anterior 1/2 of body, single central black dorsal ocellus on neck, a white ocellus on ventrolateral side of neck and one on throat posterior to jaw, venter off-white with dark throat, tail unbanded, females and juveniles brown, juveniles with indistinct mid-dorsal streak. (Khandekar et al. 2024) Additional details (4174 characters) are available for collaborators and contributors. Please contact us for details. |
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| Etymology | Named after Dutch painter Vincent Van Gogh (1853–1890). The colouration of the new species is reminiscent of one of Van Gogh’s most iconic paintings, The Starry Night. |
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