A new species of Cyrtodactylus (Reptilia: Gekkonidae) from the southern Western Ghats of India

Surya Narayanan; Sandeep Das; Amirtha Balan; Roshin Tom; Nitin Divakar; Rajkumar Kp; P. Hopeland; V. Deepak

doi:10.3897/vz.72.e89660

Vertebrate Zoology (Aug 2022)

A new species of Cyrtodactylus (Reptilia: Gekkonidae) from the southern Western Ghats of India

Surya Narayanan,
Sandeep Das,
Amirtha Balan,
Roshin Tom,
Nitin Divakar,
Rajkumar Kp,
P. Hopeland,
V. Deepak

Affiliations

Surya Narayanan: Ashoka Trust for Research in Ecology and the Environment
Sandeep Das: St. Joseph’s College
Amirtha Balan: Unaffiliated
Roshin Tom: Unaffiliated
Nitin Divakar: Kerala Forest Research Institute
Rajkumar Kp: Kerala Forest Research Institute
P. Hopeland: Unaffiliated
V. Deepak: Indian Institute of Science

DOI: https://doi.org/10.3897/vz.72.e89660
Journal volume & issue: Vol. 72
pp. 729 – 743

Abstract

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A new species of Cyrtodactylus is described from the southern Western Ghats of India. It is distinguished from all species of the Cyrtodactylus collegalensis species complex in colour pattern and resembles the Srilankan endemic C. yakhuna in overall colouration. Phylogenetic analysis of mitochondrial ND2 DNA sequences indicates that the new species is most closely related to species in the C. collegalensis complex and differs from them by an uncorrected pairwise genetic distance of 10.5–12.9%.

Published in Vertebrate Zoology

ISSN: 1864-5755 (Print); 2625-8498 (Online)
Publisher: Pensoft
Country of publisher: Bulgaria
LCC subjects: Science: Zoology
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