Template:Speciesbox Dutta's Mahendragiri gecko (Hemidactylus sushilduttai) is a species of large-bodied, tuberculate gecko, found in Andhra Pradesh in India.[1][2][3]
Anatomy
It has a snout to vent length up to at least 105 mm.[2][4] 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.[2]
References
- ↑ New species of gecko discovered in Andhra Pradesh after 5-year study. Hindustan Times(25 November 2017).
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 Hemidactylus sushilduttai • A New Species of Large-bodied, Tuberculate Hemidactylus Oken (Squamata: Gekkonidae) from the Eastern Ghats, India. Novataxa.
- ↑ New species of gecko found in Andhra Pradesh. The Times of India(26 November 2017). Retrieved 29 November 2017.
- ↑ A new species of large-bodied, tuberculate Hemidactylus Oken (Squamata: Gekkonidae) from the Eastern Ghats, India. Zootaxa({Template:Date).