Hemidactylus quartziticolus

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
Genus: Hemidactylus
Species: Hemidactylus quartziticolus

Name

Hemidactylus quartziticolus Khandekar, Thackeray, Mariappan, Gangalmale, Waghe, Pawar & Agarwal, 2023: 437

• Holotype: NRC-AA-1256 (AK-R 1215), adult ♂, collected by Akshay Khandekar, Ishan Agarwal, Swapnil Pawar and team on 12 April 2022.
• Type locality: “near Jeya Parvathi Amman Kovil, Vallanadu Reserve Forest, Manakkarai (8.6848° N, 77.8696° E; ca. 120 m asl.), Thoothukudi district, Tamil Nadu state, India”.

References

Primary references

• 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. 

Vernacular names

English: Quartzite Brookiish Gecko