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DimensionsNarayanan, Surya and Das, Sandeep and Balan, Amirtha and Tom, Roshin and Divakar, Nitin and Kp, Rajkumar and P., Hopeland and V., Deepak (2022) A new species of Cyrtodactylus (Reptilia: Gekkonidae) from the southern Western Ghats of India. Vertebrate Zoology, 72. pp. 729-743.
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Abstract
A new species of Cyrtodactylus is described from the southern Western Ghats of India. It is distinguished from all species of the Cyrtodactylus collegalensis species complex in colour pattern and resembles the Srilankan endemic C. yakhuna in overall colouration. Phylogenetic analysis of mitochondrial ND2 DNA sequences indicates that the new species is most closely related to species in the C. collegalensis complex and differs from them by an uncorrected pairwise genetic distance of 10.5–12.9%.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Additional Information: | Copyright of this article belongs to Surya Narayanan et al. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY 4.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited. |
| Uncontrolled Keywords: | Colour pattern, Cyrtodactylus, phylogeny, Tamil Nadu, Western Ghats |
| Subjects: | A ATREE Publications > G Journal Papers |
| Divisions: | SM Sehgal Foundation Centre for Biodiversity and Conservation |
| Depositing User: | Ms Suchithra R |
| Date Deposited: | 25 Nov 2025 04:32 |
| Last Modified: | 25 Nov 2025 04:32 |
| URI: | http://archives.atree.org/id/eprint/985 |
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