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Cnemaspis rashidi SAYYED, KIRUBAKARAN, KHOT, A, M, SAYYED, SAYYED, PURKAYASTHA, DESHPANDE & SULAKHE, 2023

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Higher TaxaGekkonidae, Gekkota, Sauria, Squamata (lizards: geckos)
Subspecies 
Common Names 
SynonymCnemaspis rashidi SAYYED, KIRUBAKARAN, KHOT, A, M, SAYYED, SAYYED, PURKAYASTHA, DESHPANDE & SULAKHE : 181 
DistributionIndia (Tamil Nadu)

Type locality: rock boulder (9.500463N, 77.406013E; ca. 1245 m asl.) in Kottamalai estate, Settur, Rajapalayam, Viridhunagar district, Tamil Nadu, India.  
Reproduction 
TypesHolotype. BNHS 2921, Adult male (47.50 mm SVL), collected by Amit Sayyed and Samson Kirubakaran on 05 May 2015. Paratypes (n=3). Adult female BNHS 2922 (47.29 mm SVL), adult male BNHS 2923 (49.93 mm SVL), subadult male BNHS 2924 (42.34 mm SVL), locality and collection data same as holotype. 
DiagnosisDiagnosis: A medium sized, Cnemaspis with adult SVL<50 mm (n=4); dorsal scales heterogeneous; circular granular scales intermixed with enlarged, fairly regularly arranged, strongly keeled, pointed, conical tubercles; scales on flanks small, granular, smooth, slightly raised, conical and spine-like tubercles absent on either side of the lower flanks; 7–8 supralabials; 7 infralabials; 10–11 longitudinal rows of enlarged tubercles on dorsal body; mid-dorsal scales 73–75; scales on snout and canthus rostralis large, round, juxtaposed, un-keeled; scales on nape, ventral surface of neck, occipital and temporal region granular, small, round, un-keeled; rostral groove present; mental enlarged, subtriangular, not pointed posteriorly, connected posteriorly by a large, round scale; scales on ventral surface of neck, granular smooth, juxtaposed; scales on ventral surface of abdomen and chest smooth, cycloid; scales on femoral and precloacal region larger than those on the abdomen, smooth; 170–172 longitudinal scales from mental to cloaca, mid-body scales 29–32; distinct enlarged metacarpal scale present below digit I; subdigital lamellae under fourth digit of manus 18, under fourth digit of pes 19–21; males with 7–11 precloacal pores; 11 precloacal pores in BNHS 2921 holotype male, ten precloacal pores arranged in a single row, with an additional one positioned above in the attached row; femoral pores absent on each thigh; scales on dorsal surface of forelimbs un-keeled, imbricate, juxtaposed; dorsal scales of thigh and tibia weakly keeled, imbricate; enlarged, keeled, conical tubercles at dorsal surface tail are more larger than those on dorsal body; dorsal scales on tail flattened, un-keeled, imbricate posteriorly, intermixed with enlarged, strongly keeled, pointed, conical enlarged tubercles; enlarged tubercles on the tail forming whorls, rest of the tail with decreased in size with paravertebral tubercles; median series of subcaudals slightly larger than rest, not widened; dorsal colour of head, neck and upper body brownish-yellow with distinct fresh-yellow bands; dorsal aspect of the body, bellow forelimbs and limbs are grey above with irregular white and black markings; dorsal aspect of tail grey with alternating 4 or 5 black and white bands. (Sayyed et al. 2023)


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Comment 
EtymologyNamed after Prof. Rashid Sayyed, father of the first author, Amit Sayyed. 
References
  • Sayyed, M., Purkayastha, J., Deshpande, S., & Sulakhe, S. 2023. A new species of the genus Cnemaspis Strauch, 1887 (Squamata: Gekkonidae) from the higher elevations of Tamil Nadu, India. Asian Journal of Conservation Biology, 12(2), 179-188 - get paper here
 
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