- Hemidactylus gracilis
Taxobox | name = Graceful Leaf-toed Gecko
regnum =Animal ia
phylum =Chordata
classis =Reptilia
ordo =Squamata
subordo =Sauria
familia =Gekkonidae
genus = "Hemidactylus "
species = "H. gracilis"
binomial = "Hemidactylus gracilis"
binomial_authority = Blanford, 1870Graceful Leaf-toed Gecko "Hemidactylus gracilis" is a species of
gecko found inIndia .Description
The head is narrow and elongated, with the snout a little longer than the distance between the eye and the ear-opening. The forehead is not concave, the ear-opening is small and roundish. The body and limbs are slender.
The snout has polygonal rugose scales, the back of the head has small granules.
The body is covered above with coarse granules intermixed with oval, subtrihedral, strongly keeled tubercles arranged in about twelve irregular longitudinal series. Abdominal scales are large.
The tail is round, but slightly depressed at the base and not at all further back, tapering, without any enlarged or spinose tubercles whatever. Grey above, with subquadrangular black spots arranged in longitudinal series. There is a black streak white-edged above on the side of the head, passing through the eye; whitish beneath, with or without longitudinal grey lines. [Boulenger, G. A. (1890) Fauna of British India. Reptilia and Batrachia.]
Type locality: southeastern Berar and Reipur, Central Provinces.
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References
* Annandale, Nelson 1912 Zoological results of the Abor Expedition, 1911-1912. Rec. Indian Mus., Calcutta, 8 (1): 7-59 [Reptilia, pages 37-59] (supplement in same journal, 8 (4): 357-358, 1914).
* Blanford,W.T. 1870 Notes on some Reptilia and Amphibia from Central India. J. Asiat. Soc. Bengal 39: 335-376External links
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