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| name = Graceful Leaf-toed Gecko<br />
| image = Hemidactylus_gracilis.jpg<br />
| status = LC<br />
| status_system = IUCN3.1<br />
| status_ref = <ref name="iucn status 18 November 2021">{{cite iucn |author=Srinivasulu, C. |author2=Srinivasulu, B. |date=2013 |title=''Hemidactylus gracilis'' |volume=2013 |article-number=e.T194108A2299467 |doi=10.2305/IUCN.UK.2013-1.RLTS.T194108A2299467.en |access-date=18 November 2021}}</ref><br />
| genus = Hemidactylus<br />
| species = gracilis<br />
| authority = [[William Thomas Blanford|Blanford]], 1870<br />
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The '''graceful leaf-toed gecko''' ('''''Hemidactylus gracilis''''') is a species of small-sized [[gecko]] found in [[India]]. The [[holotype]] was described in [[British India]] in Berar (what is now [[Amravati]]).<br />
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==Description==<br />
The head is narrow and elongated, with the snout a little longer than the distance between the eye and the ear-opening. The forehead is not concave, the ear-opening is small and roundish. The body and limbs are slender.<br />
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The snout has polygonal rugose scales, the back of the head has small granules.<br />
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The body is covered above with coarse granules intermixed with oval, subtrihedral, strongly keeled tubercles arranged in about twelve irregular longitudinal series. Abdominal scales are large.<br />
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The tail is round, but slightly depressed at the base and not at all further back, tapering, without any enlarged or spinose tubercles whatever. Grey above, with subquadrangular black spots arranged in longitudinal series. There is a black streak white-edged above on the side of the head, passing through the eye; whitish beneath, with or without longitudinal grey lines.<ref>Boulenger, G. A. (1890) Fauna of British India. Reptilia and Batrachia.</ref><br />
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Type locality: southeastern Berar and Reipur, Central Provinces.<br />
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==Notes==<br />
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==References==<br />
* Annandale, Nelson 1912 Zoological results of the Abor Expedition, 1911–1912. Rec. Indian Mus., Calcutta, 8 (1): 7-59 [Reptilia, pages 37–59] (supplement in same journal, 8 (4): 357–358, 1914).<br />
* Blanford, W.T. 1870 Notes on some Reptilia and Amphibia from Central India. J. Asiat. Soc. Bengal 39: 335-376<br />
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==External links==<br />
* {{NRDB species|genus=Hemidactylus|species=gracilis}}<br />
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[[Category:Hemidactylus]]<br />
[[Category:Endemic reptiles of India]]<br />
[[Category:Reptiles described in 1870]]<br />
[[Category:Taxa named by William Thomas Blanford]]<br />
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