Two more new Hemiphyllodactylus Bleeker, 1860 (Squamata: Gekkonidae) from Tamil Nadu, India

Two new species of the gekkonid genus Hemiphyllodactylus are described from mountains of the Western Ghats in Tamil Nadu, southern India. Hemiphyllodactylus nilgiriensis sp. nov. and H. peninsularis sp. nov. are > 5 % divergent in the mitochondrial ND2 gene from each other and members of the H. a...

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Published inZootaxa Vol. 4729; no. 2; p. zootaxa.4729.2.6
Main Authors Agarwal, Ishan, Bauer, Aaron M, Pal, Saunak, Srikanthan, Achyuthan N, Khandekar, Akshay
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published New Zealand 29.01.2020
Subjects
Animals
Genes, Mitochondrial
India
Lizards
Phylogeny
India
cryptic species, Gekkonidae, massif, peninsular India, taxonomy, Western Ghats
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Summary:Two new species of the gekkonid genus Hemiphyllodactylus are described from mountains of the Western Ghats in Tamil Nadu, southern India. Hemiphyllodactylus nilgiriensis sp. nov. and H. peninsularis sp. nov. are > 5 % divergent in the mitochondrial ND2 gene from each other and members of the H. aurantiacus complex and differ from each other and members of the H. aurantiacus complex in several meristic characters and colouration. The description of these two new species takes the number of Indian Hemiphyllodactylus to six and the number of endemic geckos from Tamil Nadu to 15.
ISSN:1175-5334
DOI:10.11646/zootaxa.4729.2.6