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| image = Jeypore ground gecko (Cyrtodactylus jeyporensis).jpg<br />
| status = EN<br />
| status_system = IUCN3.1<br />
| status_ref = <ref name="iucn status 20 November 2021">{{cite iucn |author=Mohapatra, P. |date=2021 |title=''Cyrtodactylus jeyporensis'' |volume=2021 |article-number=e.T194100A123311720 |doi=10.2305/IUCN.UK.2021-2.RLTS.T194100A123311720.en |access-date=20 November 2021}}</ref><br />
| status2 = CITES_A2 <br />
| status2_system = CITES <br />
| status2_ref = <ref name="CITES">{{Cite web|title=Appendices {{!}} CITES|url=https://cites.org/eng/app/appendices.php|access-date=2023-03-01|website=cites.org}}</ref><br />
| genus = Cyrtodactylus<br />
| species = jeyporensis<br />
| authority = ([[Richard Henry Beddome|Beddome]], 1877)<br />
| synonyms = <br />
*''Gymnodactylus jeyporensis'' <small>Beddome, 1877</small><ref name="Boulenger1890">{{cite book |title=Reptilia and Batrachia|last=Boulenger |first=G. A. |author-link=George Albert Boulenger |year=1890 |publisher=Taylor and Francis|location=London |series= Fauna of British India|pages=65–66 |url=https://archive.org/stream/reptiliabatrachi00bouliala#page/65/mode/1up |access-date=11 June 2013}}</ref><br />
*''Geckoella jeyporensis''<br />
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'''''Cyrtodactylus jeyporensis''''', also known as the '''Jeypore Indian gecko''', the '''Jeypore ground gecko''', or the '''Patinghe Indian gecko''',<ref name="iucn status 20 November 2021" /> is an endangered species of [[gecko]] found in [[India]], which was until recently considered [[extinct]]. Described from a single specimen in 1877, it was rediscovered in 2010 in the [[Eastern Ghats]] of [[Odisha]] state, [[India]].<ref>{{cite news|title=Extinct lizard rediscovered after 135 years|url=http://articles.timesofindia.indiatimes.com/2013-03-23/flora-fauna/37960218_1_species-extinct-lizard-varad-giri|archive-url=https://archive.today/20130411032949/http://articles.timesofindia.indiatimes.com/2013-03-23/flora-fauna/37960218_1_species-extinct-lizard-varad-giri|archive-date=11 April 2013|access-date=23 March 2013|newspaper=[[The Times of India]]|date=23 March 2013}}</ref><br />
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==Discovery and rediscovery==<br />
The [[species]] was described in 1877 by then Lt Col [[Richard Henry Beddome]] of the [[Madras Presidency]] Army, from a single male specimen obtained from the woods on "Patinghe hill" in the [[Jeypore]] forests of present-day [[Odisha]], at an altitude of {{convert|4200|ft|m|disp=flip}}. The [[holotype]] is deposited as BNHM 82.5.22.37 in the [[Natural History Museum, London|Natural History Museum]] (earlier British Museum of natural history).<ref name="Agarwal_et_al_2012">{{cite journal|author=Agarwal, Ishan|author2=Aniruddha Datta-Roy|author3=Aaron M. Bauer|author4=Varad B. Giri|name-list-style=amp|year= 2012|title= Rediscovery of ''Geckoella jeyporensis'' (Squamata: Gekkonidae)|journal=Hamadryad|publisher=Madras Crocodile Bank|volume=36|issue=1|pages=17–24|access-date=9 June 2013 |url=https://www.researchgate.net/publication/265139276}}</ref><ref name="Beddome1878">{{cite journal|author=Beddome, R.H. |title=Descriptions of new reptiles from the Madras Presidency | url=https://archive.org/stream/proceedingsofgen772zool#page/685/mode/1up |year=1878 |journal=Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London |volume=1877 |pages=685–686 |access-date=11 June 2013 }}</ref><br />
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In 2009, Ishan Aggarwal, a doctoral student at the Centre for Ecological Sciences, [[Indian Institute of Sciences]], [[Bangalore]], started working on the genus ''[[Geckoella]]''. He hoped to rediscover this "lost" species as it would help piece together the evolutionary history of the genus. The search began with piecing together the route of Beddome's explorations in the Eastern Ghats. After many months of research, the CES and the [[Bombay Natural History Society]] (BNHS) put together expeditions in high elevation areas of the Eastern Ghats in southern Odisha in September 2010 and northern Andhra Pradesh in November 2011.<ref name="Agarwal_et_al_2012"/><ref name="KJReptiles">{{cite web |url=http://www.kjreptilesupplies.co.uk/blog/jeypore-ground-gecko-geckoella-jeyporensis-has-been-rediscovered/ |title=Jeypore ground gecko (Geckoella Jeyporensis) has been rediscovered after 135 years |author=Molloy, Kieron |date=25 March 2013 |website=KJ Reptile Supplies |access-date=10 June 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130513081300/http://www.kjreptilesupplies.co.uk/blog/jeypore-ground-gecko-geckoella-jeyporensis-has-been-rediscovered/ |archive-date=13 May 2013 }}</ref> <br />
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A sub-adult male lizard was collected on 20 September 2010 in [[Koraput]] district, [[Odisha]], by Ishan Agarwal and Aniruddha Datta-Roy of CES which was deposited in the collection of the BNHS. A second specimen, an adult male, was recorded on 9 October 2011 from Galikonda, [[Visakhapatnam]] district, [[Andhra Pradesh]] extending its known distribution range.<ref name="Agarwal_et_al_2012"/><br />
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==Description==<br />
Description of type, male specimen, collected in [[Jeypore Estate|Jeypore]] by Beddome in 1877:<ref name="Boulenger1890"/><br />
{{quote|Head rather large, oviform; snout longer than the diameter of the orbit or the distance between the eye and the ear-opening; forehead and loreal region slightly concave; ear-opening an oblique slit, three fifths the diameter of the eye. Body depressed, rather short. Limbs moderate; digits rather short, cylindrical in their basal, compressed in their distal portion, with enlarged plates beneath. Head covered with large subequal flat granules; rostral quadrangular, twice as broad as deep, with median cleft above; nostril pierced between the rostral, the first labial, and three nasals; 10 upper and 7 lower labials; mental triangular; a pair of large chin-shields forming a suture behind the point of the mental, surrounded by much smaller chin-shields. Body covered above with uniform juxtaposed large squarish or hexagonal flat scales arranged regularly like the bricks of a wall. Abdominal scales smooth, round, imbricate, not half the size of the dorsals. No enlarged preanal or femoral scales or pores. Tail cylindrical, tapering, slightly swollen, covered with uniform, rather large smooth scales, which are imbricate beneath. Light yellowish brown above, with large reddish-brown, black-edged spots arranged in pairs; two transverse spots on the nape, the posterior crescent-shaped; head with small darker spots and a streak from the eye to the ear; lips and side of throat with small brown dots and marblings; lower surfaces brownish white.<br/><br/> The snout to vent length is 5 cm (2 in).}}<br />
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Measurements :<ref name="Boulenger1885">{{cite book |title=Catalogue of the Lizards in the British Museum (Nat. Hist.) I. Geckonidae, Eublepharidae, Uroplatidae, Pygopodidae, Agamidae|last=Boulenger |first=G. A. |author-link=George Albert Boulenger |year=1885 |publisher=Taylor and Francis|location=London |page=36 |url=https://archive.org/stream/cu31924024782124#page/n51/mode/1up |access-date=11 June 2013}}</ref><br />
* Total length : {{convert|92|mm|in}}<br />
* Head : {{convert|16|mm|in}}<br />
* Width of body : {{convert|11|mm|in}}<br />
* Body : {{convert|38|mm|in}}<br />
* Forelimb : {{convert|20|mm|in}}<br />
* Hindlimb : {{convert|27|mm|in}}<br />
* Tail : {{convert|38|mm|in}}<br />
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==Distribution==<br />
The lizard appears to inhabit semi-evergreen forests in high elevation areas (> {{convert|1200|m|ft}}) of the [[Eastern Ghats]] of southern [[Odisha]] and northern [[Andhra Pradesh]]. However, the areas where the lizard has been found are under tremendous pressure from deforestation and mining. The taxon is surmised to possibly be a wet-zone relict stranded by the aridification of peninsular India.<ref name="Agarwal_et_al_2012"/><ref name="Beddome1878"/><br />
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==References==<br />
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==External links==<br />
*{{NRDB species|genus=Cyrtodactylus|species=jeyporensis }}<br />
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[[Category:Cyrtodactylus]]<br />
[[Category:Endemic reptiles of India]]<br />
[[Category:Lizards of Asia]]<br />
[[Category:Reptiles described in 1877]]<br />
[[Category:Critically endangered fauna of Asia]]<br />
[[Category:Taxa named by Richard Henry Beddome]]</div>JurgenP55205038