Cyrtodactylus deccanensis

Cyrtodactylus deccanensis
Gunther's Indian Gecko
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Reptilia
Order: Squamata
Suborder: Sauria
Family: Gekkonidae
Genus: Cyrtodactylus
Species: C. deccanensis
Binomial name
Cyrtodactylus deccanensis
(Günther, 1864)

Gunther's Indian Gecko Cyrtodactylus deccanensis is a species of gecko found in the northern Western Ghats of India.

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Description

Head rather large, oviform ; snout longer than the diameter of the orbit or the distance between the eye and the ear-opening; forehead and loreal region concave; ear-opening suboval, vertical, about one third the diameter of the eye. Body moderately elongate, depressed. Limbs rather long; digits moderately elongate, cylindrical in the basal, compressed in the distal portion; the plates under the basal phalanx very small, little larger than the surrounding tubercles. Head covered with convex granules, largest on the snout and temples; rostral quadrangular, not quite twice as broad as deep, with median cleft above; nostril pierced between the rostral, the first labial, and three nasals; 9 to 11 upper and as many lower labials; mental triangular or pentagonal; a pair of large chin-shields, forming a long suture behind the point of the mental, in contact externally and posteriorly with two smaller pairs. Body covered above with large juxtaposed subequal tubercles arranged in more or less regular transverse series; these tubercles flat or very slightly keeled, generally with a small raised point in the centre. Abdominal scales round, smooth, sub-imbricate, much smaller than dorsals. Males with enlarged preanal and femoral scales, but without pores. Tail cylindrical, tapering, covered with uniform smooth scales arranged in rings. Reddish brown above, with narrow white, black-edged cross bars; the first semicircular, extending from one eye to the other across the nape; a second on the scapular region, two on the body, and a fifth on the sacrum ; similar bands forming annuli round the tail; lower surfaces whitish. From snout to vent 2.5 inches; tail 2.25.[1]

Type locality: "Deccan", Bombay Presidency.

Notes

  1. ^ Boulenger, G. A. 1890. Fauna of British India. Reptilia and Batrachia.

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References

  • Boulenger, G.A. 1885 Catalogue of the Lizards in the British Museum (Nat. Hist.) I. Geckonidae, Eublepharidae, Uroplatidae, Pygopodidae, Agamidae. London: 450 pp.
  • Günther, A. 1864 The Reptiles of British India. London (Taylor & Francis), xxvii + 452 pp.


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