| Literature DB >> 32229863 |
Ishan Agarwal1, Aaron M Bauer, Saunak Pal, Achyuthan N Srikanthan, Akshay Khandekar.
Abstract
Two new species of the gekkonid genus Hemiphyllodactylus are described from mountains of the Western Ghats in Tamil Nadu, southern India. Hemiphyllodactylus nilgiriensis sp. nov. and H. peninsularis sp. nov. are > 5 % divergent in the mitochondrial ND2 gene from each other and members of the H. aurantiacus complex and differ from each other and members of the H. aurantiacus complex in several meristic characters and colouration. The description of these two new species takes the number of Indian Hemiphyllodactylus to six and the number of endemic geckos from Tamil Nadu to 15.Entities:
Keywords: cryptic species, Gekkonidae, massif, peninsular India, taxonomy, Western Ghats
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Year: 2020 PMID： 32229863 DOI： 10.11646/zootaxa.4729.2.6
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Zootaxa ISSN： 1175-5326 Impact factor: 1.091