Teratolepis fasciata

Taxobox | name = Carrot-tail Viper Gecko
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regnum = Animalia
phylum = Chordata
classis = Reptilia
ordo = Squamata
subordo = Sauria
familia = Gekkonidae
genus = "Teratolepis"
species = "T. fasciata"
binomial = "Teratolepis fasciata"
binomial_authority = Guenther, 1869
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The Carrot-tail Viper Gecko ("Teratolepis fasciata") is a species of gecko found in India and Pakistan.

Description

Body somewhat depressed; limbs rather long and slender. Head covered with polygonal flat scales. Seven lower labials; mental large, triangular; two larger anterior chin-shields, in contact behind the mental, followed by others passing gradually into the small gular granules. Dorsal scales large, lozenge-shaped, slightly keeled; ventral scales much smaller, smooth. Tail depressed, swollen, tapering at the end, covered with imbricate irregular scales, some of those of the upper surface being extremely large. Greyish above, with five brown longitudinal bands, which at regular intervals are interrupted by white spots forming cross bands; seven of these cross bands on the neck and trunk. [Boulenger, G. A. 1890. Fauna of British India. Reptilia and Batrachia. ]

Head and body 1.5 inches in length. The species has been noted from Jalna in the Deccan region according to Boulenger but this may refer to "Teratolepis albofasciatus".

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