Hemidactylus sirumalaiensis

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 sirumalaiensis

Name

Hemidactylus sirumalaiensis Khandekar, Thackeray, Pawar & Agarwal, 2020: 90

• Holotype: NCBS-BH743 (AK 908), adult ♂, collected by Akshay Khandekar, Ishan Agarwal and Swapnil Pawar on 16 October 2019.
• Type locality: “Sirumalai massif (10.281944° N, 77.994722° E; ca. 580 m asl.), Dindigul district, Tamil Nadu state, India”.

References

Primary references

• 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. 

Links

• Uetz, P. & Hallermann, J. 2024. Hemidactylus sirumalaiensis. The Reptile Database. Accessed on 6 April 2022.

Vernacular names

English: Sirumalai Rock Gecko