Thackeray Wildlife Foundation, Mumbai, 400051, India.
Zootaxa. 2021 Aug 13;5020(3):434-456. doi: 10.11646/zootaxa.5020.3.2.
We describe a cryptic new species of large-bodied rupicolous Hemidactylus allied to H. aaronbaueri from Tamhini Ghat, in Raigad and Pune districts of Maharashtra state, India. Hemidactylus tamhiniensis sp. nov. falls within the prashadi group of Indian Hemidactylus and can be diagnosed from all other members of the group by combination of several morphological characters such as its large-body size (maximum SVL 126 mm), the number of femoral pores and poreless scales between the left and right series of femoral pores in males, and the number of transverse ventral scales across the belly at mid-body. The new species differs from H. aaronbaueri based on dorsal pholidosis at mid-body, the number of undivided lamellae beneath the first finger, the number of internasal scales, and subtle colour pattern differences, besides 10.6% uncorrected ND2 sequence divergence.
我们描述了一种来自印度马哈拉施特拉邦塔米尼盖特的拉加德和浦那地区的与 H. aaronbaueri 密切相关的大型岩栖 Hemidactylus 的神秘新物种。Hemidactylus tamhiniensis sp. nov. 属于印度 Hemidactylus 的 prashadi 组，可通过几个形态特征与该组的所有其他成员区分开来，例如其体型较大（最大 SVL 为 126 毫米）、雄性左右股孔之间的股孔和无孔鳞片的数量，以及在中腹部腹部的横向腹鳞数量。与 H. aaronbaueri 不同，该新种在中体背鳞、第一指下未分裂的鳞片数量、鼻间鳞数量和微妙的颜色模式差异方面存在差异，除了 10.6%未校正的 ND2 序列差异。
