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Dutta’s Mahendragiri Gecko

Hemidactylus sushilduttai

Classification

Dutta's Mahendragiri gecko (Hemidactylus sushilduttai) is a species of large-bodied, tuberculate gecko, found in Andhra Pradesh in India. Anatomy It has a snout to vent length up to at least 105 mm. It is also characterized by a dorsal scalation of small granules intermixed with large, pointed, trihedral tubercles that form 16–17 fairly regularly arranged longitudinal rows at midbody; 9–11 subdigital lamellae below the first and 11–13 below the fourth digit; 6–8 strongly pointed and keeled enlarged tubercles on the original tail; 20–23 femoral pores separated by 4 poreless scales in…

Distribution

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