Agarwal Ishan, Bauer Aaron M, Pal Saunak, Srikanthan Achyuthan N, Khandekar Akshay
Thackeray Wildlife Foundation, Vaibhav Chambers, BKC, Bandra, Mumbai, 400051, India Ecology and Evolution, National Centre for Biological Sciences, Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Bengaluru, 560065, India.
Zootaxa. 2020 Jan 29;4729(2):zootaxa.4729.2.6. doi: 10.11646/zootaxa.4729.2.6.
Two new species of the gekkonid genus Hemiphyllodactylus are described from mountains of the Western Ghats in Tamil Nadu, southern India. Hemiphyllodactylus nilgiriensis sp. nov. and H. peninsularis sp. nov. are > 5 % divergent in the mitochondrial ND2 gene from each other and members of the H. aurantiacus complex and differ from each other and members of the H. aurantiacus complex in several meristic characters and colouration. The description of these two new species takes the number of Indian Hemiphyllodactylus to six and the number of endemic geckos from Tamil Nadu to 15.
印度南部泰米尔纳德邦西高止山脉发现了半叶趾虎属（Hemiphyllodactylus）的两个新物种。新物种尼尔吉里半叶趾虎（Hemiphyllodactylus nilgiriensis sp. nov.）和半岛半叶趾虎（H. peninsularis sp. nov.）的线粒体ND2基因彼此间差异超过5%，与橙黄半叶趾虎复合体（H. aurantiacus complex）的成员也存在差异，并且在多个分节特征和体色方面，这两个新物种之间以及它们与橙黄半叶趾虎复合体的成员之间也有所不同。这两个新物种的描述使印度半叶趾虎的种类增加到6种，泰米尔纳德邦特有的壁虎种类增加到15种。
