Two new species of Hemidactylus Goldfuss, 1820 (Squamata: Gekkonidae) from the rocky outcrops of the Deccan plateau, peninsular India Author Adhikari, Omkar D. Natural History Collection department, Bombay Natural History Society, Hornbill House, Opp. Lion Gate, S. B. S. Road, Fort, Mumbai 400 001, Maharashtra, India. Author Achyuthan, N. S. Center for Ecological Sciences, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore 560 012, Karnataka, India. Author Kumar, G. Chethan Centre for Biodiversity and Conservation Studies (CBCS), # F 6, Central Facilities for Research and Development (CFRD), Osmania University, Hyderabad, Telangana State- 500 007, India. Author Khot, Rahul V. 0000-0001-6215-6965 Natural History Collection department, Bombay Natural History Society, Hornbill House, Opp. Lion Gate, S. B. S. Road, Fort, Mumbai 400 001, Maharashtra, India. & r. khot @ bnhs. org; https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0001 - 6215 - 6965 r.khot@bnhs.org Author Shreeram, M. V. Darter Photography Pvt. Ltd., 22, 6 main, 13 cross, BTM 2 stage, Bangalore 560 076. Author Ganesh, S. R. Chennai Snake Park, Rajbhavan post, Chennai 600 022, Tamil Nadu, India. text Zootaxa 2022 2022-04-27 5129 2 227 249 journal article 55757 10.11646/zootaxa.5129.2.4 9223a2e9-5997-436f-a383-63a88480457a 1175-5326 6500887 B7CAB9A1-B66F-4AE4-B52A-B1BC35F91D5B

TABLE 3. Mensural (mm) and meristic data of Hemidactylus mahonyi sp. nov. and Hemidactylus srikanthani sp. nov. Abbreviations listed in Materials and Methods; *—Lamellae damaged, B—broken, abs.—absent, L—left, R—right; H—holotype; P—paratype.

Characters	H. mahonyi	H. mahonyi	H. mahonyi	H. srikanthani	H. srikanthani
	BNHS 2598 (H)	BNHS 2597 (P)	BNHS 2601 (P)	BNHS 2640 (H)	BNHS 2641 (P)
SVL	51.3	56.1	47.5	66.6	46.4
TL	58.9	54.9	3.6 B	81.4	54.3
TW	7.7	8.2	3.7	8.2	3.4 + abs.
MBW	11.5	11.4	9.1	14.3	7.4
HL	16.8	17.6	15.7	20.7	14.6
HW	11.6	11.9	9.2	12.8	8.6
HD	6.1	6.7	5.9	7.5	4.9
EL	1.3	1.3	1.8	1.3	1.1
E-E	5.2	5.2	3.5	5.8	3.5
HED	3.2	3.5	3.2	4.6	3.8
E-N	5.7	6.1	5.2	6.8	4.7
E-S	7.3	7.6	7.2	8.6	6.1
IOD	5.4	5.0	3.3	7.4	5.9
IND	2.5	2.6	2.4	4.2	3
HUL	8.9	9.2	7.3	12.2	8.2
RUL	7.5	9.5	8.8	10.5	7.7
THL	11.3	11.8	9.3	12.8	9.9
CL	9.1	10.8	7.5	12.9	9.2
A-G	21.0	23.8	18.0	25.8	16.9
ML	3.7	3.5	3.3	4.2	3.9
MW	3.5	3.0	3.4	3.8	3.5
PPMenL	3.4	3.7	3.3	4.0	3.7
SPMenL	3.2	3.2	2.9	3.8	2.9
TOLRM
I	2.9	2.9	1.8	1.9	1.8
II	3.8	1.5*	2.3	4.7	3.1
III	3.9	3.3	2.4	5.1	2.7
IV	3.7	3.2	2.2	4.9	3.7
V	3.1	3.7	2.1	4.4	3.3
TOLRP
I	2.1	1.9	1.7	2.2	2.3
II	3.2	3.6	2.2	4.3	2.9
III	5.0	5.1	3.9	4.5	3.4
IV	4.9	4.1	3.9	5.7	3.7
V	3.6	4.3	3.1	5.1	2.8
Scale counts
SL (L/R)	10/10	10/11	10/10	10/9	10/9
IL (L/R)	8/8	8/8	8/8	9/8	9/8
DTR	14	14	13	15	14
PVT	25	27	24	30	29
VS	34	31	29	37	37
LRM (Digit I-V)	5-7-8-8-9	6-*-8-9-9	6-7-8-8-8	7-9-9-9-9	7-9-9-10-10
LRP (Digit I-V)	5-8-8-8-7	6-8-8-9-8	6-8-9-10-9	6-9-10-10-10	6-9-10-10-9