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| genus = Hemidactylus<br />
| species = varadgirii<br />
| image_alt = A Giri's Bookish Gecko on a light clay ground. The gecko itself is brown with black and tan spots and has a tail roughly equal in length to its body. The back half of the tail is striped and its hands are lighter than the rest of its skin.<br />
| image = Giri’s_Brookish_Gecko_Hemidactylus_varadgirii_by_Dr_Raju_Kasambe_DSCN0799_(1).jpg<br />
| authority = [[species:R. Chaitanya|Chaitanya]], [[species:Ishan Agarwal|Agarwal]], [[species:Aparna Lajmi|Lajmi]] & [[species:Akshay Khandekar|Khandekar]], 2019 <br />
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'''''Hemidactylus varadgirii''''', also [[Common name|commonly]] known as '''Giri's brookiish gecko''' and the '''Amboli brookiish gecko''', is a [[species]] of [[lizard]] in the [[Family (biology)|family]] [[Gekkonidae]]. The species is [[Endemism|endemic]] to [[India]]. It was discovered by herpetologist [[species:Varad B. Giri|Varad Giri]] in the Indian village of Amboli, and was named in his honour.<ref name=RDB>{{NRDB species|genus=Hemidactylus|species=varadgirii}}</ref><br />
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==Taxonomy==<br />
''H. varadgirii'' belongs to the ''[[Hemidactylus brookii|H. brookii]]'' [[Species complex|species group]], to which the adjective "brookiish" in the common names refers.<ref name=RDB/><br />
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