A multitude of spots! Five new microendemic species of the Cnemaspis gracilis group (Squamata: Gekkonidae) from massifs in the Shevaroy landscape, Tamil Nadu, India
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Agarwal, Ishan
https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9734-5379
Thackeray Wildlife Foundation, Mumbai, 400051, India & National Centre for Biological Sciences, Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Bengaluru 560065, India
ishan.agarwal@gmail.com
Author
Thackeray, Tejas
Thackeray Wildlife Foundation, Mumbai, 400051, India
Author
Khandekar, Akshay
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7956-089X
Thackeray Wildlife Foundation, Mumbai, 400051, India & National Centre for Biological Sciences, Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Bengaluru 560065, India & Department of Zoology, Shivaji University, Kolhapur, 416004, India
akshaykhandekar555@gmail.com
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Vertebrate Zoology
2022
2022-12-07
72
1137
1186
http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/vz.72.e94799
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http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/vz.72.e94799
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Table 12. Mensural (mm) data for the type series of Cnemaspis pachaimalaiensis sp. nov.. Abbreviations are listed in Materials and Methods. * = incomplete tail.| Type | Holotype | Paratypes |
| museum number | NRC-AA-1230 | NRC-AA-1231 | NRC-AA-1232 | NRC-AA-1233 | NRC-AA-1234 | NRC-AA-1235 | NRC-AA-1236 | NRC-AA-1237 |
| Sex | Male | Male | Male | Male | Female | Male | Male | Male |
| SVL | 28.8 | 30.7 | 28.6 | 31.5 | 33.6 | 30.6 | 30.3 | 31.9 |
| TL | 32.2 | 8.5* | 32.0 | 40.7 | 36.3 | 40.0 | 34.0 | 42.6 |
| TW | 2.7 | 3.0 | 2.4 | 3.1 | 2.8 | 2.9 | 2.9 | 3.3 |
| LAL | 4.3 | 4.5 | 3.7 | 4.5 | 4.8 | 4.6 | 4.5 | 4.6 |
| CL | 5.1 | 5.5 | 4.8 | 5.6 | 5.3 | 5.3 | 5.6 | 5.4 |
| AGL | 11.5 | 11.7 | 10.8 | 12.7 | 14.4 | 13 | 12 | 13.3 |
| BH | 3.0 | 3.3 | 2.7 | 3.4 | 3.8 | 3.1 | 3.3 | 3.5 |
| BW | 5.4 | 5.5 | 4.7 | 6.4 | 6.4 | 5.6 | 6.3 | 6.4 |
| HL | 7.0 | 7.5 | 7.2 | 8.0 | 7.8 | 7.6 | 7.7 | 8.0 |
| HW | 4.8 | 4.9 | 4.6 | 5.5 | 5.2 | 5.3 | 5.1 | 5.2 |
| HD | 3.2 | 3.5 | 3.0 | 3.7 | 3.4 | 3.4 | 3.2 | 3.3 |
| ED | 1.5 | 1.6 | 1.6 | 1.8 | 1.9 | 1.5 | 1.6 | 1.8 |
| EE | 2.4 | 2.3 | 2.2 | 2.5 | 2.5 | 2.4 | 2.3 | 2.6 |
| ES | 3.5 | 3.8 | 3.5 | 3.7 | 4.1 | 3.9 | 3.9 | 4.0 |
| EN | 2.7 | 3.0 | 2.8 | 3.0 | 3.4 | 3.0 | 3.1 | 3.2 |
| IN | 0.8 | 1.0 | 0.8 | 1.1 | 1.1 | 1.0 | 1.0 | 0.9 |
| IO | 1.1 | 1.0 | 1.0 | 1.1 | 1.1 | 1.3 | 1.3 | 1.5 |
| EL | 0.4 | 0.4 | 0.4 | 0.4 | 0.6 | 0.4 | 0.6 | 0.6 |