Akshay Khandekar

Akshay Khandekar, Indian herpetologist.

• Ecology and Evolution, National Centre for Biological Sciences, Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Bangalore, India.

Taxon names authored

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• 76 taxon names authored by Akshay Khandekar

Publications

(List may be incomplete)

2016

• Deepak, V., Khandekar, A., Varma, S. & Chaitanya, R. 2016. Description of a new species of Sitana Cuvier, 1829 from southern India. Zootaxa 4139(2): 167–182. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4139.2.2. Reference page. 

2018

• Agarwal, I., Khandekar, A. & Bauer, A.M. 2018. A new bent-toed gecko (Squamata: Gekkonidae: Cyrtodactylus) from the Western Himalayas, Himachal Pradesh, India. Zootaxa 4446(4): 442–454. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4446.4.2. Reference page. 
• Agarwal, I., Khandekar, A., Ramakrishnan, U., Vyas, R. & Giri, V.B. 2018. Two new species of the Ophisops microlepis (Squamata: Lacertidae) complex from northwestern India with a key to Indian Ophisops. Journal of Natural History 52(13–16): 819–847. DOI: 10.1080/00222933.2018.1436203 Reference page. 
• Deepak, V., Khandekar, A., Chaitanya, R. & Karanth, P. 2018. Descriptions of two new endemic and cryptic species of Sitana Cuvier, 1829 from peninsular India. Zootaxa 4434(2): 327–365. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4434.2.5. Reference page. 

2019

• Khandekar, A. 2019. A new species of rock-dwelling Cnemaspis Strauch, 1887 (Squamata: Gekkonidae) from Tamil Nadu, southern India. Zootaxa 4571(3): 383–397. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4571.3.6 Reference page. 
• Khandekar, A., Gaitonde, N. & Agarwal, I. 2019. Two new Cnemaspis Strauch, 1887 (Squamata: Gekkonidae) from the Shevaroy massif, Tamil Nadu, India, with a preliminary ND2 phylogeny of Indian Cnemaspis. Zootaxa 4609(1): 68–100. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4609.1.3 Reference page. 
• Khandekar, A., Thackeray, T. & Agarwal, I. 2019. Two more new species of Cnemaspis Strauch, 1887 (Squamata: Gekkonidae) from the northern Western Ghats, Maharashtra, India. Zootaxa 4656(1): 43–70. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4656.1.2 Reference page. 
• Agarwal, I., Khandekar, A., Giri, V.B., Ramakrishnan, U. & Karanth, K.P. 2019. The hills are alive with geckos! A radiation of a dozen species on sky islands across peninsular India (Squamata: Gekkonidae, Hemiphyllodactylus) with the description of three new species. Organisms Diversity & Evolution 19: 341–361. DOI: 10.1007/s13127-019-00392-5 Reference page. 
• Agarwal, I., Bauer, A.M., Giri, V.B. & Khandekar, A. 2019. An expanded ND2 phylogeny of the brookii and prashadi groups with the description of three new Indian Hemidactylus Oken (Squamata: Gekkonidae). Zootaxa 4619(3): 431–458. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4619.3.2 Reference page. 
• Chaitanya, R., Agarwal, I., Lajmi, A. & Khandekar, A. 2019. A novel member of the Hemidactylus brookii complex (Squamata: Gekkonidae) from the Western Ghats of Maharashtra, India. Zootaxa 4646(2): 236–250. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4646.2.2. Reference page. 

2020

• Agarwal, I., Bauer, A.M. & Khandekar, A. 2020. A new species of South Asian Cnemaspis (Squamata: Gekkonidae) from the Eastern Ghats, India. Zootaxa 4802(3): 449–462. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4802.3.3 Reference page. 
• Agarwal, I., Thackeray, T. & Khandekar, A. 2020. Geckos in the granite: two new geckos (Squamata: Gekkonidae) from rocky, scrub habitats in Rishi Valley, Andhra Pradesh, India. Zootaxa 4838(4): 451–474. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4838.4.1 Reference page. 
• Khandekar, A., Thackeray, T. & Agarwal, I. 2020. A new cryptic Cnemaspis Strauch (Squamata: Gekkonidae) from an isolated granite hill on the Mysore Plateau, Karnataka, India. Zootaxa 4845(4): 509–528. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4845.4.3 Reference page. 
• Agarwal, I., Bauer, A.M., Pal, S., Srikanthan, A.N. & Khandekar, A. 2020. Two more new Hemiphyllodactylus Bleeker, 1860 (Squamata: Gekkonidae) from Tamil Nadu, India. Zootaxa 4729(2): 249–265. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4729.2.6 Reference page. 
• Agarwal, I., Thackeray, T., Pal, S. & Khandekar, A. 2020. Granite boulders act as deep-time climate refugia: A Miocene divergent clade of rupicolous Cnemaspis Strauch, 1887 (Squamata: Gekkonidae) from the Mysore Plateau, India, with descriptions of three new species. Journal of Zoological Systematics and Evolutionary Research 58(4): 1234–1261. DOI: 10.1111/jzs.12391 Reference page. 
• Khandekar, A., Thackeray, T., Pal, S. & Agarwal, I. 2020. A new large-bodied, rupicolous Cnemaspis Strauch, 1887 (Squamata: Gekkonidae) allied to Cnemaspis heteropholis Bauer, 2002 from the Central Western Ghats of Karnataka, India. Zootaxa 4801(1): 57–84. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4801.1.2 Reference page. 
• Khandekar, A., Thackeray, T., Pawar, S. & Agarwal, I. 2020. A new medium-bodied rupicolous Hemidactylus Goldfuss, 1820 (Squamata: Gekkonidae) from the Sirumalai massif, Tamil Nadu, India. Zootaxa 4852(1): 83–100. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4852.1.4 Reference page. 
• Mohapatra, P.P., Khandekar, A., Dutta, S.K., Mahapatra, C. & Agarwal, I. 2020. A novel, diminutive Hemiphyllodactylus Bleeker, 1860 (Squamata: Gekkonidae) from a sacred grove in Odisha, eastern India. Zootaxa 4852(4): 485–499. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4852.4.6 Reference page. 

2021

• Agarwal, I., Thackeray, T. & Khandekar, A. 2021. A new medium-sized rupicolous Cnemaspis Strauch, 1887 (Squamata: Gekkonidae) of the C. bangara clade from granite boulder habitats in Krishnagiri, Tamil Nadu, India. Zootaxa 4969(2): 351–366. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4969.2.7 Reference page. 
• Khandekar, A., Thackeray, T. & Agarwal, I. 2021. A new small-bodied, polymorphic Cnemaspis Strauch, 1887 (Squamata: Gekkonidae) allied to C. monticola Manamendra-Arachchi, Batuwita & Pethiyagoda, 2007 from the Central Western Ghats of Karnataka, India. Zootaxa 4950(3): 501–527. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4950.3.5 Reference page. 
• Khandekar, A., Thackeray, T. & Agarwal, I. 2021. A novel small-bodied rupicolous Cnemaspis Strauch, 1887 (Squamata: Gekkonidae) from the northern Western Ghats, Maharashtra, India, with comments on the status of C. indraneildasii, Bauer 2000. Zootaxa 4969(2): 331–350. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4969.2.6 Reference page. 
• Khandekar, A., Thackeray, T. & Agarwal, I. 2021. A cryptic new species of rupicolous Hemidactylus Goldfuss, 1820 (Squamata: Gekkonidae) allied to H. aaronbaueri Giri, 2008 from the northern Western Ghats of Maharashtra, India. Zootaxa 5020(3): 434–456. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5020.3.2 Reference page. 
• Khandekar, A., Parmar, D.S., Sawant, N. & Agarwal, I. 2021. A new species of the genus Hemiphyllodactylus Bleeker, 1860 (Squamata: Gekkonidae) from Goa, India. Zootaxa 5027(2): 254–268. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5027.2.6 Reference page. 

2022

• Agarwal, I., Thackeray, T. & Khandekar, A. 2022. A multitude of spots! Five new microendemic species of the Cnemaspis gracilis group (Squamata: Gekkonidae) from massifs in the Shevaroy landscape, Tamil Nadu, India. Vertebrate Zoology 72: 1137–1186. DOI: 10.3897/vz.72.e94799 Reference page. 
• Khandekar, A., Thackeray, T. & Agarwal, I. 2022. Three new cryptic species of South Asian Cnemaspis Strauch, 1887 (Squamata, Gekkonidae) from Karnataka, India. Vertebrate Zoology 72: 115–142. DOI: 10.3897/vz.72.e76308 Reference page. 
• Khandekar, A., Thackeray, T. & Agarwal, I. 2022. Three more novel species of South Asian Cnemaspis Strauch, 1887 (Squamata, Gekkonidae) from Kalakad Mundanthurai Tiger Reserve, Tamil Nadu, India. Vertebrate Zoology 72: 385–422. DOI: 10.3897/vz.72.e82343 Reference page. 
• Waghe, V., Gangalmale, S. & Khandekar, A. 2022. First record of the genus Compsobuthus (Scorpiones: Buthidae) from Maharashtra, India, with description of a new species. Euscorpius No. 346: 1-13. Full article (PDF). Reference page. 

2023

• Agarwal, I., Umesh, P.K., Das, S., Bauer, A.M. & Khandekar, A. 2023. A New Spotted Species of the Cyrtodactylus (Geckoella) collegalensis (Beddome, 1870)(Reptilia: Squamata) Complex from Coastal Kerala, Southwestern India. Journal of Herpetology 57(1): 75–86. DOI: 10.1670/21-075 Reference page. 
• Mohapatra, P.P., Agarwal, I., Mohalik, R.K., Dutta, S.K. & Khandekar, A. 2023. Hemidactylus paucifasciatus (Squamata: Gekkonidae), a new species of large-bodied, tuberculate gecko from Northern Odisha, India. Zootaxa 5301(3): 365–382. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5301.3.3 Reference page. 
• Khandekar, A., Thackeray, T., Mariappan, R., Gangalmale, S., Waghe, V., Pawar, S. & Agarwal, I. 2023. A remarkable new species of gecko (Squamata: Gekkonidae: Hemidactylus) from scrublands at the southern tip of India. Vertebrate Zoology 73: 433–450. DOI: 10.3897/vz.73.e101871 Reference page. 
• Khandekar, A., Thackeray, T., Kalaimani, A. & Agarwal, I. 2023. Two new species of South Asian Cnemaspis Strauch, 1887 (Squamata: Gekkonidae) from the Gingee Hills, Tamil Nadu, India. Vertebrate Zoology 73: 887–913. DOI: 10.3897/vz.73.e110512 Reference page. 

2024

• Agarwal, I., Thackeray, T. & Khandekar, A. 2024. A non-adaptive radiation of viviparous skinks from the seasonal tropics of India: Systematics of Subdoluseps (Squamata: Scincidae), with description of a new genus and five cryptic new species. Vertebrate Zoology 74: 23–83. DOI: 10.3897/vz.74.e110674 Reference page. 
• Khandekar, A., Thackeray, T. & Agarwal, I. 2024. Two new species of the Cnemaspis galaxia complex (Squamata, Gekkonidae) from the eastern slopes of the southern Western Ghats. ZooKeys 1196: 209–242. DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.1196.117947 Reference page. 
• Khandekar, A., Thackeray, T. & Agarwal, I. 2024. Two new nocturnal species of South Asian Cnemaspis Strauch, 1887 (Squamata: Gekkonidae) of the wynadensis clade from the southern Western Ghats, India. Zootaxa 5443(4): 353–386. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5443.4.3 Reference page. 
• Khandekar, A., Gaikwad, S.M., Thackeray, T., Gangalmale, S. & Agarwal, I. 2024. A preliminary taxonomic revision of the girii clade of South Asian Cnemaspis Strauch, 1887 (Squamata: Gekkonidae) with the description of four new species from southern Maharashtra, India. Zootaxa 5429(1): 1–114. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5429.1.1 Reference page. 
• Khandekar, A., Thackeray, T., Agarwal, I., Gangalmale, S., Kininge, S. & Gaikwad, S.M. 2024. Two new species of South Asian Cnemaspis Strauch, 1887 (Squamata: Gekkonidae) from the far northern peaks of the Western Ghats, India. Zootaxa 5463(4): 451–478. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5463.4.1 Reference page.