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Report of ground-dwelling geckos (Gekkonidae:  Reptilia) from Tenkasi District, Tamil Nadu State, India

Selvaraj Selvamurugan,Usha Balasubramanian and K.Vasanthi

Year : 2020 | Volume: 5 | Issue: 6 | Pages: 283-287

doi: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4321925

Received on: 07/28/2020

Revised on: 12/14/2020

Accepted on: 10/16/2020

Published on: 12/14/2020

  • Selvaraj Selvamurugan,Usha Balasubramanian and K.Vasanthi( 2020).

    Report of ground-dwelling geckos (Gekkonidae:  Reptilia) from Tenkasi District, Tamil Nadu State, India

    . International Journal of Zoology and Applied Biosciences, 5( 6), 283-287.

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Abstract

We report for recently described species of geckos from South Tamilnadu, India. During a field study conducted on October 2019 at Tenkasi District of Tamilnadu State, India. We have recorded on reptile species namely are Cnemaspis agarwali, Cnemaspis ornate, Hemiphyllodactylus nilgiriensis based on the photographs. In this paper discuss in distribution and conservation status. Recently new descriptions of Cnemaspis and Hemiphyllodactylus species together with the present discovery show that the southern Western Ghats species of documents. Therefore we suggest further studies to evaluate the diversity of reptile in this region.

Keywords

Cryptic species, Gekkonidae, Cnemaspis, Hemiphyllodactylus, Tenkasi, Tamilnadu.

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