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Cyrtodactylus aravindi NARAYANAN, DAS, BALAN, TOM, DIVAKAR, KP, HOPELAND & DEEPAK, 2022

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Higher TaxaGekkonidae, Gekkota, Sauria, Squamata (lizards: geckos)
Subspecies 
Common NamesE: Aravind’s ground gecko 
SynonymCyrtodactylus aravindi NARAYANAN, DAS, BALAN, TOM, DIVAKAR, KP, HOPELAND & DEEPAK 2022: 732 
DistributionIndia (Tamil Nadu)

Type locality: Muppandal, Nagercoil, Kanyakumari district, Tamil Nadu, India (8.260862°N, 77.557513°E, 108 m above sea level).  
Reproduction 
TypesHolotype. ZSI-R 28275, adult male collected from Muppandal, Nagercoil, Kanyakumari district, Tamil Nadu, India (8.260862°N, 77.557513°E, 108 m above sea level) collected by P. Hopeland and Amirtha Balan on 4 April 2022 (Figs 3, 4, 6A).
Paratypes (n=5). ZSI-R 28276 (adult male), ZSI-R 28277 (adult female), ZSI-R 28278 (adult male), ZSI-R 28279 (subadult male) collections details same as the holotype (Figs 5A–D); ZSI-R 28280 (adult female) collected from Thuckalay, Kanyakumari district, Tamil Nadu, India (8.285148°N, 77.379105°E, 371 above sea level) collected by Roshin Tom & Sandeep Das on 7 August 2021 (Figs 5E and 6B). 
Diagnosis 
Comment 
EtymologyThe specific epithet is a patronym honouring Dr N. A. Aravind, Senior Fellow at ATREE, Bengaluru, India for his support towards herpetological research. Ar- avind is a malacologist who has also contributed to am- phibian systematics and his lab support has been instru- mental in our research for the past few years. 
References
  • Kwet, A. 2023. Liste der im Jahr 2022 neu beschriebenen Reptilien. Elaphe 2023 (3): 48-73
  • Narayanan, S., Das, S., Balan, A., Tom, R., Divakar, N., Kp, R., Hopeland, P. & Deepak, V. 2022. A new species of Cyrtodactylus (Reptilia: Gekkonidae) from the southern Western Ghats of India. Vertebrate Zoology, 72: 729-743 - get paper here
 
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