A new species of Dravidogecko (Squamata: Gekkonidae) from the under-surveyed Periyar Plateau of the Southern Western Ghats in Peninsular India
- We describe a new species of Dravidogecko from the poorly-inventoried Periyar Plateau of Southern Western Ghats, Peninsular India. The new species Dravidogecko beddomei sp. nov. is characterized by: precloacal-femoral pores 46‒52; scales across belly 31‒33; supralabials 9–11; infralabials 8–9; lamellae on digit IV of pes 10–11. Additionally, the new species is divergent (>13%) from its related congeners. Like its congeners, the new species is currently known only from its type locality and its vicinity – the Devar Malai, Kakki Reservoir – and Sivagiri Hills in the Periyar Plateau of Southern Western Ghats. This discovery further increases the list of new reptiles described from this under-studied massif in the Southern Western Ghats.
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| Author: | Omkar Dilip AdhikariORCiD, Achyuthan N. Srikanthan, S. R. Ganesh |
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| URN: | urn:nbn:de:hebis:30:3-696615 |
| DOI: | https://doi.org/10.5852/ejt.2023.870.2125 |
| ISSN: | 2118-9773 |
| Parent Title (German): | European journal of taxonomy |
| Series (Serial Number): | European journal of taxonomy : EJT (870:146-166) |
| Publisher: | Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle |
| Place of publication: | Paris |
| Document Type: | Article |
| Language: | English |
| Date of Publication (online): | 2023/05/30 |
| Date of first Publication: | 2023/05/30 |
| Publishing Institution: | Universitätsbibliothek Johann Christian Senckenberg |
| Release Date: | 2023/05/30 |
| Tag: | Periyar Plateau; allopatry; endemism; gecko; wet zone |
| Volume: | 2023 |
| Issue: | 871 |
| Page Number: | 21 |
| First Page: | 146 |
| Last Page: | 166 |
| Dewey Decimal Classification: | 5 Naturwissenschaften und Mathematik / 59 Tiere (Zoologie) / 590 Tiere (Zoologie) |
| Sammlungen: | Sammlung Biologie / Sondersammelgebiets-Volltexte |
| : | urn:nbn:de:hebis:30:3-257882 |
| Licence (German): |  Creative Commons - Namensnennung 4.0 |
