Geckoella jeyporensis
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| Geckoella jeyporensis (Beddome, 1878) |
Patinghe Indian Gecko Geckoella jeyporensis is a species of gecko found in India
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[edit] Description
Head rather large, oviform; snout longer than the diameter of the oi*bit or the distance between the eye and the ear-opening; forehead and loreal region slightly concave; ear-opening an oblique slit, three fifths the diameter of the eye. Body depressed, rather short. Limbs moderate; digits rather short, cylindrical in their basal, compressed in their distal portion, with enlarged plates beneath. Head covered with large subequal flat granules; rostral quadrangular, twice as broad as deep, with median cleft above; nostril pierced between the rostral, the first labial, and three nasals; 10 upper and 7 lower labials; mental triangular; a pair of large chin-shields forming a suture behind the point of the mental, surrounded by much smaller chin-shields. Body covered above with uniform juxtaposed large squarish or hexagonal flat scales arranged regularly like the bricks of a wall. Abdominal scales smooth, round, imbricate, not half the size of the dorsals. No enlarged preanal or femoral scales or pores. Tail cylindrical, tapering, slightly swollen, covered with uniform, rather large smooth scales, which are imbricate beneath. Light yellowish brown above, with large reddish-brown, black-edged spots arranged in pairs; two transverse spots on the nape, the posterior crescent-shaped; head with small darker spots and a streak from the eye to the ear; lips and side of throat with small brown dots and marblings; lower surfaces brownish white.[1] From snout to vent 2 inches. Patinghe Hill, Jeypore, near Yizagapatam, 4200 feet; in woods.
[edit] Notes
- ^ Boulenger, G. A. 1890. Fauna of British India. Reptilia and Batrachia.
[edit] References
- Beddome,R.H. 1878 Descriptions of new reptiles from the Madras Presidency. Proc. Zool. Soc. London 1877: 685-686
- Boulenger, G.A. 1885 Catalogue of the Lizards in the British Museum (Nat. Hist.) I. Geckonidae, Eublepharidae, Uroplatidae, Pygopodidae, Agamidae. London: 450 pp.
