Cyrtodactylus varadgirii

Cyrtodactylus varadgirii

Taxonavigation

Taxonavigation: Gekkonoidea

Superregnum: Eukaryota Cladus: Unikonta Cladus: Opisthokonta Cladus: Holozoa Regnum: Animalia Subregnum: Eumetazoa Cladus: Bilateria Cladus: Nephrozoa Superphylum: Deuterostomia Phylum: Chordata Subphylum: Vertebrata Infraphylum: Gnathostomata Megaclassis: Osteichthyes Cladus: Sarcopterygii Cladus: Rhipidistia Cladus: Tetrapodomorpha Cladus: Eotetrapodiformes Cladus: Elpistostegalia Superclassis: Tetrapoda Cladus: Reptiliomorpha Cladus: Amniota Classis: Reptilia Cladus: Eureptilia Cladus: Romeriida Subclassis: Diapsida Cladus: Sauria Infraclassis: Lepidosauromorpha Superordo: Lepidosauria Ordo: Squamata Subordo: Gekkota Infraordo: Gekkomorpha Superfamilia: Gekkonoidea

Familia: Gekkonidae
Subfamilia: Gekkoninae
Genus: Cyrtodactylus
Species: Cyrtodactylus varadgirii

Name

Cyrtodactylus (Geckoella) varadgiri Agarwal, Mirza, Pal, Maddock, Mishra, & Bauer, 2016: 8.

• Holotype: NCBS AQ475, adult ♂, collected by Prathamesh Ghadekar on 3rd February 2012.
• Type locality: Ulhasnagar Taluk, Thane District, Maharashtra, India.

• Paratype: NCBS AQ191, adult ♂, same locality and collection data as holotype.
• Paratype: CES 09/1381, adult ♂, Chikhli, Navsari District, Gujarat, India; collected by Rohan Nimbalkar, 29 March 2012.
• Paratype: CES 09/1368, adult ♂, Chandrapur District, Maharashtra, India; collected by T. Khichi, 06.04.2012
• Paratype: CES 09/1536, adult ♂, Amravathi District, Maharashtra, India; collected by Krishna Khan, 26 June 2014.
• Paratype: CES 09/1537, adult ♀, same locality and collection data as CES 09/1537.
• Paratype: BNHS 1427, adult ♂, Sanjay Gandhi National Park, Mumbai, Maharashtra, India; collected by A. C. Sekar & V. M. Hegde, 15 September 1993.
• Paratype: BNHS 1434, subadult ♂, Junagadh District, Gujarat, India; collected by Raju Vyas, 8 November 1997.
• Paratype: NCBS AQ192, adult ♂, Aarey Milk Colony, Mumbai, Maharashtra, India; collected by Zeeshan Mirza and Rajesh Sanap, 26 March 2008.
• Paratype: BNHS 1848, adult ♂, same locality and collection data as NCBS AQ192.
• Paratype: BNHS 1849, adult ♀, same locality and collection data as NCBS AQ192.
• Paratype: BNHS 1929, subadult ♀, same locality and collection data as NCBS AQ192, collected 4 November 2008.
• Paratype: BNHS 2099, adult ♀, Vansda National Park, Navsari District, Gujarat, India; collected by Raju Vyas, 12 Septmber 2008.
• Paratype: CES 19/1433, tissue sample only, Chikhli, Navsari District, Gujarat, India.

Synonyms

• Gymnodactylus collegalensis Beddome, R.H. 1870
• Gymnodactylus nebulosus (part) Boulenger, G.A. 1885
• Geckoella collegalensis Agarwal, I & Karanth, K.P. 2014

References

Primary references

• Agarwal, I., Mirza, Z.A., Pal, S., Maddock, S.T., Mishra, A. & Bauer, A.M. 2016. A new species of the Cyrtodactylus (Geckoella) collegalensis (Beddome, 1870) complex (Squamata: Gekkonidae) from Western India. Zootaxa 4170(2): 339–354. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4170.2.7 Reference page. 

Additional references

• Beddome, R.H., 1870. Description of new reptiles from Madras presidency. Madras Monthly Journal of Medical Science, 2: 169–176.
• Boulenger, G.A., 1885. Catalogue of the lizards in the British Museum (Natural History). I. Geckonidae, Eublepharidae, Uroplatidae, Pygopodidae, Agamidae. British Museum (Natural History), London, xii + 436 pp.
• Agarwal, I. & Karanth, K.P. 2015. A phylogeny of the only ground-dwelling radiation of Cyrtodactylus (Squamata, Gekkonidae): diversification of Geckoella across peninsular India and Sri Lanka. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution, 82: 193–199. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ympev.2014.09.016

Vernacular names

English: Giri's Geckoella