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Higher TaxaEublepharidae, Gekkota, Sauria, Squamata (lizards: geckos)
Subspecies 
Common NamesE: East Indian Leopard Gecko
G: Ostinidscher Fettschwanzgecko 
SynonymEublepharis hardwickii GRAY 1827
Gymnodactylus lunatus BLYTH 1847 (nom. nud. fide SMITH 1935)
Eublepharis hardwickii — BOULENGER 1885: 231
Eublepharis hardwickii — SMITH 1935
Eublepharis hardwickii — WERMUTH 1965: 28
Eublepharis hardwickii — KLUGE 1993
Eublepharis hardwickii — RÖSLER 2000: 78
Eublepharis hardwickii — SEUFER et al. 2005
Eublepharis hardwickii — AGARWAL et al. 2022 
DistributionE-India (Anaimalay Hills, Bihar, Orissa = Odisha, West Bengal, Tamil Nadu, Madhya Pradesh, Uttar Pradesh, Jharkhand), Bangladesh

Type locality: Chittagong, Penang.  
Reproductionoviparous 
TypesType: BMNH 1946.8.26.67 (and possibly additional specimens). 
DiagnosisDiagnosis (genus): Digits short, cylindrical, with transverse lamellae beneath, clawed, the claw partly concealed beneath two or four lateral scales and an upper scale; eyelids well developed and movable; pupil vertical; males with preanal pores; dorsum with small juxtaposed scales and larger tubercles; tail shorter than head and body [from LEVITON et al. 1992].


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CommentType species: Eublepharis hardwickii GRAY 1827 is the type species of the genus Eublepharis GRAY 1827.

Reference images: see Uetz et al. 2024 for high-resolution reference images for this species. 
EtymologyNamed after Major-General Thomas Hardwicke (1756-1835) who served in the Bengal army of the Honourable East India Company. He was an amateur naturalist and collector who worked with Gray. 
References
  • Agarwal, I., Bauer, A. M., Gamble, T., Giri, V. B., Jablonski, D., Khandekar, A., ... & Ramakrishnan, U. 2022. The evolutionary history of an accidental model organism, the leopard gecko Eublepharis macularius (Squamata: Eublepharidae). Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution, 107414 - get paper here
  • Beolens, Bo; Michael Watkins, and Michael Grayson 2011. The Eponym Dictionary of Reptiles. Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore, USA - get paper here
  • Borner, A. R. 1976. Second contribution to the systematics of the southwest Asian lizards of the geckonid genus Eublepharis Gray 1827: materials from the Indian subcontinent. Saurologica (2) 1976: 1-15
  • Boulenger, G.A. 1885. Catalogue of the lizards in the British Museum (Nat. Hist.) I. Geckonidae, Eublepharidae, Uroplatidae, Pygopodidae, Agamidae. London: 450 pp. - get paper here
  • Das, Indraneil & Abhijit Das 2017. A Naturalist’s Guide to the Reptiles of India, Bangladesh, Bhutan, Nepal, Pakistan and Sri Lanka. John Beaufoy Publishing Ltd., Oxford, 176 pp.
  • Dutta, S.K., M.V. Nair, P.P. Mohapatra and A.K. Mahapatra. 2009. Amphibians and reptiles of Similipal Biosphere Reserve. Regional Plant Resouce Centre, Bhubaneswar, Orissa, India - get paper here
  • Gericke, F. 1981. Lidgeckos der Gattung Eublepharis. Sauria 3 (4): 11-14 - get paper here
  • Gray, J. E. 1827. A Synopsis of the Genera of Saurian Reptiles in which some new Genera are indicated, and the others reviewed by actual Examination. Philos. Mag., London, 2 (2): 54-58. - get paper here
  • Henkel, F.W. & Schmidt,W. 2009. Leopardgeckos. Natur und Tier Verlag (Münster),156 pp. - get paper here
  • Kumar, R. 2024. Occurrence of the East Indian Leopard Gecko, Eublepharis hardwickii Gray 1827, in the Dalma Wildlife Sanctuary and Saranda Forest in Jharkhand, India. Reptiles & Amphibians 31(1):1-2 - get paper here
  • Mirza, Zeeshan A.; Rajesh V. Sanap, David Raju, Atish Gawai, and Prathamesh Ghadekar 2014. A new species of lizard of the genus Eublepharis (Squamata: Eublepharidae) from India. Phyllomedusa 13 (2): 75-90 - get paper here
  • Pratihar, S., Mahata, P., Bhunia, M., & Dandapat, C. 2024. Two rare reptile species' destinies are entangled with human superstition. Scientific Reports in Life Sciences, 5(4), 54-58 - get paper here
  • Rösler, H. 2000. Kommentierte Liste der rezent, subrezent und fossil bekannten Geckotaxa (Reptilia: Gekkonomorpha). Gekkota 2: 28-153
  • Seufer, H.; Y. Kaverkin & A. Kirschner (eds.) 2005. Die Lidgeckos. Kirschner und Seufer Verlag, 238 pp.
  • Smith, M.A. 1935. The fauna of British India, including Ceylon and Burma. Reptiles and Amphibia, Vol. II. Sauria. Taylor and Francis, London, 440 pp.
  • Uetz, P.H.; Patel, M.; Gbadamosi, Z.; Nguyen, A.; Shoope, S. 2024. A Reference Database of Reptile Images. Taxonomy 4: 723–732 - get paper here
  • Venugopal, P.D. 2010. An updated and annotated list of Indian lizards (Reptilia: Sauria) based on a review of distribution records and checklists of Indian reptiles. Journal of Threatened Taxa 2 (3): 725-738. - get paper here
 
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