Geckoella collegalensis
| Geckoella collegalensis | |
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Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Reptilia |
| Order: | Squamata |
| Family: | Gekkonidae |
| Genus: | Geckoella |
| Species: | G. collegalensis |
| Binomial name | |
| Geckoella collegalensis (Beddome, 1870) | |
| Synonyms | |
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Cyrtodactlyus collegalensis | |
Geckoella collegalensis, the Kollegal ground gecko, is a species group or species complex of gecko found in peninsular India. Recent taxonomic works and genetic studies revealed that the formerly-supposed genus is actually a subgenus of the widespread genus Cyrtodactylus. Currently the following species are recognised from the respective regions:
- Cyrtodactylus collegalensis (Beddome, 1870) - from BR Hills, Karnataka and Sathyamangalam, Tamil Nadu
- Cyrtodactylus speciosus (Beddome, 1870) - from Coimbatore and Erode districts, Tamil Nadu
- Cyrtodactylus rishivalleyensis Agarwal, 2016 - from Horsley Hills, in Chitoor dt., Andhra Pradesh
- Cyrtodactylus srilekhae Agarwal, 2016 - from Bangalore in Karnataka and Hosur in Tamil Nadu
- Cyrtodactylus varadgirii Agarwal et al. 2016 - from Maharashtra state and pats of Central India.
Habits and Habitat
They are primarily ground-dwelling, hiding under thick leaf-litter. They are nocturnal, insectivorous and are thought to be oviparous. Some species in this group have been documented to lay eggs. They live in forests, be it dry, mixed or wet in complexion, mainly along the hilly tracts.
Distribution
The Gecko was described in 1870 from BR Hills in Southern Karnataka.[1] It was treated as synonymous with Geckoella nebulosa by Boulenger.[2] It has later been reported from several regions in South India and as far as Gujarat in Western India. In Sri Lanka, its presence is considered dubious.
Notes
- ↑ Beddome, RH (1870). "Descriptions of new reptiles from the Madras Presidency". Madras Monthly Journal of Medical Sciences. 2: 169–176.
- ↑ Kluge, AG (1983). "Cladistic relationships among gekkonid lizards". Copeia. 1983: 465–475. doi:10.2307/1444392.
References
- Prasanna, Ganesh (1993). "Leopard gecko (Cyrtodactylus collegalensis)". Dactylus. 1 (4): 33.
- Vyas, Raju (2000). "Notes on distribution and breeding ecology of Gekkoella collegalensis (Beddome, 1870)". Hamadryad. 25 (1): 45–46.
- Mirza, Z.; et al. (2010). "Notes on a ground gecko Gekkoella cf. collegalensis BEDDOME, 1870(SQUAMATA, SAURIA, GEKKONIDAE) From India". Russian Journal of Herpetology. 17 (1): 8–14.
- Agarwal, I., Mirza, Z. A., Pal, S., Maddock, S. T., Mishra, A., & Bauer, A. M. (2016). A new species of the Cyrtodactylus (Geckoella) collegalensis (Beddome, 1870) complex (Squamata: Gekkonidae) from Western India. Zootaxa, 4170(2), 339-354.
- Agarwal, I. (2016). Two new species of ground-dwelling Cyrtodactylus (Geckoella) from the Mysore Plateau, south India. Zootaxa, 4193(2), 228-244.
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