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<p><b>New page</b></p><div>{{Short description|Species of lizard}}<br />
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| image = Closeup photo of Dutta's mahendragiri gecko.jpg<br />
| image_caption = Dutta's Mahendragiri gecko from Simhachalam hills<br />
| status = LC<br />
| status_system = IUCN3.1<br />
| status_ref = <ref>{{Cite web |title=Hemidactylus sushilduttai {{!}} IUCN RedList |url=https://www.iucnredlist.org/species/149352834/149353044 |website=iucnredlist.org}}</ref><br />
| genus = Hemidactylus<br />
| species = sushilduttai<br />
| authority = Giri, [[Aaron Matthew Bauer|Bauer]], Mohapatra, Srinivasulu & Agarwal, 2017<br />
}}<br />
'''Dutta's Mahendragiri gecko''' ('''''Hemidactylus sushilduttai''''') is a species of large-bodied, tuberculate [[gecko]], found in [[Andhra Pradesh]] in [[India]].<ref name=":0">{{cite news|last=Chatterjee|first=Badri|title=New species of gecko discovered in Andhra Pradesh after 5-year study|url=http://m.hindustantimes.com/mumbai-news/new-species-of-gecko-discovered-in-andhra-pradesh-after-5-year-study/story-P5fLFsvIYAxbUHccrrGbJJ.html|work=[[Hindustan Times]]|accessdate=29 November 2017|date=25 November 2017}}</ref><ref name=":1">{{cite news|title=Hemidactylus sushilduttai • A New Species of Large-bodied, Tuberculate Hemidactylus Oken (Squamata: Gekkonidae) from the Eastern Ghats, India|url=http://novataxa.blogspot.in/2017/11/hemidactylus-sushilduttai.html?m=1|work=Novataxa|accessdate=29 November 2017}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|title=New species of gecko found in Andhra Pradesh|url=https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/visakhapatnam/new-species-of-gecko-found-in-andhra-pradesh/articleshow/61803321.cms|work=[[The Times of India]]|access-date=29 November 2017|date=26 November 2017}}</ref> <br />
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==Anatomy==<br />
It has a snout to vent length up to at least 105&nbsp;mm.<ref name=":1" /><ref>{{Cite journal|last1=Giri|first1=Varad B.|last2=Bauer|first2=Aaron M.|last3=Mohapatra|first3=Pratyush P.|last4=Srinivasulu|first4=Chelmala|last5=Agarwal|first5=Ishan|date=2017-11-13|title=A new species of large-bodied, tuberculate Hemidactylus Oken (Squamata: Gekkonidae) from the Eastern Ghats, India|url=https://www.biotaxa.org/Zootaxa/article/view/zootaxa.4347.2.8|journal=Zootaxa|language=en|volume=4347|issue=2|pages=331–345|doi=10.11646/zootaxa.4347.2.8|pmid=29245598|issn=1175-5334|url-access=subscription}}</ref> It is also characterized by a dorsal scalation of small granules intermixed with large, pointed, trihedral tubercles that form 16–17 fairly regularly arranged longitudinal rows at midbody; 9–11 subdigital lamellae below the first and 11–13 below the fourth digit; 6–8 strongly pointed and keeled enlarged tubercles on the original tail; 20–23 femoral pores separated by 4 poreless scales in males; 11–13 supralabials and 9–11 infralabials.<ref name=":1" /><br />
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==References==<br />
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[[Category:Hemidactylus]]<br />
[[Category:Reptiles described in 2017]]<br />
[[Category:Lizards of Asia]]<br />
[[Category:Endemic reptiles of India]]<br />
[[Category:Taxa named by Aaron M. Bauer]]<br />
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