plazi/treatments-xml
2
0
Fork 0
Code Issues Pull requests Releases Activity
treatments-xml/data/48/57/87/485787BFFFAAC33AFF0BF991FB14F8AD.xml
maintenance 69dcd2f4f7 added 48
2024-06-21 12:35:23 +02:00

411 lines
51 KiB
XML
Raw Blame History

This file contains ambiguous Unicode characters

This file contains Unicode characters that might be confused with other characters. If you think that this is intentional, you can safely ignore this warning. Use the Escape button to reveal them.

<document id="990DDB476848FDA0D9F7131962B90B06" ID-CLB-Dataset="46266" ID-DOI="10.5281/zenodo.278832" ID-GBIF-Dataset="9d274a58-46e3-471c-8945-bbf84a9b1ba1" ID-ISSN="1175-5326" ID-Zenodo-Dep="278832" IM.materialsCitations_approvedBy="felipe" IM.metadata_approvedBy="felipe" IM.tables_requiresApprovalFor="existingObjects,plazi" IM.taxonomicNames_approvedBy="felipe" checkinTime="1460393709508" checkinUser="plazi" docAuthor="Mahony, Stephen" docDate="2011" docId="485787BFFFAAC33AFF0BF991FB14F8AD" docLanguage="en" docName="zt03042p067.pdf" docOrigin="Zootaxa 3042" docStyle="DocumentStyle:890A69B780ED73D6DB8551B71C8AC79E.4:Zootaxa.2009-2012.journal_article" docStyleId="890A69B780ED73D6DB8551B71C8AC79E" docStyleName="Zootaxa.2009-2012.journal_article" docStyleVersion="4" docTitle="Hemidactylus subtriedrus Jerdon 1853" docType="treatment" docVersion="10" lastPageNumber="61" masterDocId="B46EFFC7FFBDC322FF9CFFCBFF87FFA9" masterDocTitle="Taxonomic revision of Hemidactylus brookii Gray: a re-examination of the type series and some Asian synonyms, and a discussion of the obscure species Hemidactylus subtriedrus Jerdon (Reptilia: Gekkonidae)" masterLastPageNumber="67" masterPageNumber="37" pageNumber="60" updateTime="1698298507063" updateUser="ExternalLinkService">
<mods:mods id="7B0AAE2BD87D296BDC73849C385D5539" xmlns:mods="http://www.loc.gov/mods/v3">
<mods:titleInfo id="08228390AB9FFBD565C0A0219893BC82">
<mods:title id="0F447628580E07253EF26AD4C2E599A8">Taxonomic revision of Hemidactylus brookii Gray: a re-examination of the type series and some Asian synonyms, and a discussion of the obscure species Hemidactylus subtriedrus Jerdon (Reptilia: Gekkonidae)</mods:title>
</mods:titleInfo>
<mods:name id="7F2186A905F5609D17FFCF5C6E68E8C3" type="personal">
<mods:role id="981E885CC87446C87FBFFCFD17C1704D">
<mods:roleTerm id="DD57E964354565ECB1521BC581EF191E">Author</mods:roleTerm>
</mods:role>
<mods:namePart id="F09EDE6DDB59A3C3065848B746F49097">Mahony, Stephen</mods:namePart>
</mods:name>
<mods:typeOfResource id="6680E1F6FBFE9DDD92BD79172CA37488">text</mods:typeOfResource>
<mods:relatedItem id="68B6A770F590504F8C15D8637112F67F" type="host">
<mods:titleInfo id="AE989AC701CBAC92A3B7708E69901A99">
<mods:title id="EC64C539453642A8682170869E0B7401">Zootaxa</mods:title>
</mods:titleInfo>
<mods:part id="5B847876B04980FE174D312B025187B4">
<mods:date id="671A7168DE40799E09052D2E0D9DCC36">2011</mods:date>
<mods:detail id="D9813C31F0B88D90FD587C8438419353" type="volume">
<mods:number id="20848337628BD99C28C60864D6830912">3042</mods:number>
</mods:detail>
<mods:extent id="5F7C9B43EF98C1BFCCC499085EE2D978" unit="page">
<mods:start id="0F9F0F16FA508300889D1293E95AFCC5">37</mods:start>
<mods:end id="E02924F44B44458053F1B2DB1C76A040">67</mods:end>
</mods:extent>
</mods:part>
</mods:relatedItem>
<mods:classification id="61255905A216C2E7413AE603CC2B1FC4">journal article</mods:classification>
<mods:identifier id="C5018F9D5276379BBC24542145D18A9C" type="CLB-Dataset">46266</mods:identifier>
<mods:identifier id="AE4752B01316FF51F4A31E4DA3BE3C6E" type="DOI">10.5281/zenodo.278832</mods:identifier>
<mods:identifier id="9002C61237C6EFEA8D0CDDE18A57A92D" type="GBIF-Dataset">9d274a58-46e3-471c-8945-bbf84a9b1ba1</mods:identifier>
<mods:identifier id="A0C61E52CB123FB26EA3DCD55F8F9960" type="ISSN">1175-5326</mods:identifier>
<mods:identifier id="C1534E3D5F1E8671DD5D2A5D6535BA41" type="Zenodo-Dep">278832</mods:identifier>
</mods:mods>
<treatment id="485787BFFFAAC33AFF0BF991FB14F8AD" ID-DOI="http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5621744" ID-GBIF-Taxon="119417560" ID-Zenodo-Dep="5621744" LSID="urn:lsid:plazi:treatment:485787BFFFAAC33AFF0BF991FB14F8AD" httpUri="http://treatment.plazi.org/id/485787BFFFAAC33AFF0BF991FB14F8AD" lastPageId="24" lastPageNumber="61" pageId="23" pageNumber="60">
<subSubSection id="88E46522FFAAC335FF0BF991FD6BF9DD" box="[151,748,1626,1652]" pageId="23" pageNumber="60" type="nomenclature">
<paragraph id="C04136A9FFAAC335FF0BF991FD6BF9DD" blockId="23.[151,748,1626,1652]" box="[151,748,1626,1652]" pageId="23" pageNumber="60">
<heading id="9B0981C5FFAAC335FF0BF991FD6BF9DD" bold="true" box="[151,748,1626,1652]" fontSize="11" level="1" pageId="23" pageNumber="60" reason="1">
<emphasis id="F28AEABBFFAAC335FF0BF991FD6BF9DD" bold="true" box="[151,748,1626,1652]" pageId="23" pageNumber="60">
What is
<taxonomicName id="07FE4D2AFFAAC335FF63F991FD67F9DD" authority="Jerdon, 1853" authorityName="Jerdon" authorityYear="1853" box="[255,736,1626,1652]" class="Reptilia" family="Gekkonidae" genus="Hemidactylus" kingdom="Animalia" order="Squamata" pageId="23" pageNumber="60" phylum="Chordata" rank="species" species="subtriedrus">
<emphasis id="F28AEABBFFAAC335FF63F991FDB1F9DD" bold="true" box="[255,566,1626,1652]" italics="true" pageId="23" pageNumber="60">Hemidactylus subtriedrus</emphasis>
<bibRefCitation id="A46F4B58FFAAC335FDA0F991FD67F9DD" author="Jerdon" box="[572,736,1626,1652]" pageId="23" pageNumber="60" refString="Jerdon, T. C. (1853) Catalogue of reptiles inhabiting the peninsula of India. Part 1. Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal, 22, 462 - 479." type="journal article" year="1853">Jerdon, 1853</bibRefCitation>
</taxonomicName>
?
</emphasis>
</heading>
</paragraph>
</subSubSection>
<subSubSection id="88E46522FFAAC33AFF0BF96AFB14F8AD" lastPageId="24" lastPageNumber="61" pageId="23" pageNumber="60" type="reference_group">
<paragraph id="C04136A9FFAAC33AFF0BF96AFAA5FD46" blockId="23.[151,1436,1697,2009]" lastBlockId="24.[151,1436,151,1797]" lastPageId="24" lastPageNumber="61" pageId="23" pageNumber="60">
<taxonomicName id="07FE4D2AFFAAC335FF0BF96AFE3DF910" box="[151,442,1697,1721]" class="Reptilia" family="Gekkonidae" genus="Hemidactylus" kingdom="Animalia" order="Squamata" pageId="23" pageNumber="60" phylum="Chordata" rank="species" species="subtriedrus">
<emphasis id="F28AEABBFFAAC335FF0BF96AFE3DF910" box="[151,442,1697,1721]" italics="true" pageId="23" pageNumber="60">Hemidactylus subtriedrus</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
was described as a questionable new species or “variety” of
<taxonomicName id="07FE4D2AFFAAC335FB1DF969FB79F910" box="[1153,1278,1697,1721]" class="Reptilia" family="Gekkonidae" genus="Hemidactylus" kingdom="Animalia" order="Squamata" pageId="23" pageNumber="60" phylum="Chordata" rank="species" species="triedrus">
<emphasis id="F28AEABBFFAAC335FB1DF969FB79F910" box="[1153,1278,1697,1721]" italics="true" pageId="23" pageNumber="60">H. triedrus</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
from Nellore District (now Amamrajeevi Potti Sri Ramulu Nellore District, Andhra Pradesh), based primarily on the knowledge of the local Yanadees people who considered the two species as distinct (
<bibRefCitation id="A46F4B58FFAAC335FC5AF922FBD1F8A8" author="Jerdon" box="[966,1110,1769,1793]" pageId="23" pageNumber="60" refString="Jerdon, T. C. (1853) Catalogue of reptiles inhabiting the peninsula of India. Part 1. Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal, 22, 462 - 479." type="journal article" year="1853">Jerdon 1853</bibRefCitation>
). The characters described to distinguish it from the nominate form were vague except that there were fewer dark bands on the body of
<taxonomicName id="07FE4D2AFFAAC335FAD5F8C5FF68F8E0" class="Reptilia" family="Gekkonidae" genus="Hemidactylus" kingdom="Animalia" order="Squamata" pageId="23" pageNumber="60" phylum="Chordata" rank="species" species="subtriedrus">
<emphasis id="F28AEABBFFAAC335FAD5F8C5FF68F8E0" italics="true" pageId="23" pageNumber="60">H. subtriedrus</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
. Other differences such as fewer white tubercles, smaller trihedral scales and paler colour, are variations that can be commonly seen within several populations currently referred to
<taxonomicName id="07FE4D2AFFAAC335FB9DF89DFBF9F8C4" box="[1025,1150,1877,1901]" class="Reptilia" family="Gekkonidae" genus="Hemidactylus" kingdom="Animalia" order="Squamata" pageId="23" pageNumber="60" phylum="Chordata" rank="species" species="triedrus">
<emphasis id="F28AEABBFFAAC335FB9DF89DFBF9F8C4" box="[1025,1150,1877,1901]" italics="true" pageId="23" pageNumber="60">H. triedrus</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
. Apparently only Jerdon examined the
<typeStatus id="1F45880BFFAAC335FEABF8B1FEE0F83B" box="[311,359,1914,1938]" pageId="23" pageNumber="60">type</typeStatus>
specimens.
<bibRefCitation id="A46F4B58FFAAC335FE68F8B2FD2FF838" author="Stoliczka" box="[500,680,1913,1937]" pageId="23" pageNumber="60" refString="Stoliczka, F. (1871) Notes on new or little known Indian lizards. Proceedings of the Asiatic Society of Bengal, 1871, 192 - 195." type="proceedings paper" year="1871">Stoliczka (1871</bibRefCitation>
,
<bibRefCitation id="A46F4B58FFAAC335FD29F8B2FD69F838" author="Stoliczka" box="[693,750,1913,1937]" pageId="23" pageNumber="60" refString="Stoliczka, F. (1872) Notes on various new or little-known Indian lizards. Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal, 41 (2), 86 - 135 + Pl. II - V." type="journal article" year="1872">1872</bibRefCitation>
) discussed specimens identified as
<taxonomicName id="07FE4D2AFFAAC335FB18F8B1FAA0F838" box="[1156,1319,1913,1937]" class="Reptilia" family="Gekkonidae" genus="Hemidactylus" kingdom="Animalia" order="Squamata" pageId="23" pageNumber="60" phylum="Chordata" rank="species" species="subtriedrus">
<emphasis id="F28AEABBFFAAC335FB18F8B1FAA0F838" box="[1156,1319,1913,1937]" italics="true" pageId="23" pageNumber="60">H. subtriedrus</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
, collected by Blanford in 1871 from near Ellore (
<bibRefCitation id="A46F4B58FFAAC335FDC5F856FC83F81C" author="Blanford" box="[601,772,1949,1973]" pageId="23" pageNumber="60" refString="Blanford, W. T. (1879) Notes on a collection of reptiles and frogs from the neighbourhood of Ellore and Dumagudem. Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal, 48 (2), 110 - 116." type="journal article" year="1879">Blanford 1879</bibRefCitation>
).
<bibRefCitation id="A46F4B58FFAAC335FC86F856FC72F81C" author="Annandale" box="[794,1013,1949,1973]" pageId="23" pageNumber="60" refString="Annandale, N. (1905 b) Contributions to Oriental Herpetology. Supplement II. Notes on the Oriental lizards in the Indian Museum, with a list of the species recorded from British India and Ceylon. Journal Proceedings of the Asiatic Society Bengal, 1 (3), 81 - 93 + Pl. I - II." type="journal article" year="1905" yearSuffix="b">Annandale (1905b)</bibRefCitation>
examined one of the specimens discussed by
<bibRefCitation id="A46F4B58FFAAC335FE92F80AFE4FF870" author="Stoliczka" box="[270,456,1985,2009]" pageId="23" pageNumber="60" refString="Stoliczka, F. (1872) Notes on various new or little-known Indian lizards. Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal, 41 (2), 86 - 135 + Pl. II - V." type="journal article" year="1872">Stoliczka (1872)</bibRefCitation>
and regarded it morphologically intermediate between
<taxonomicName id="07FE4D2AFFAAC335FBA1F809FB67F870" box="[1085,1248,1985,2009]" class="Reptilia" family="Gekkonidae" genus="Hemidactylus" kingdom="Animalia" order="Squamata" pageId="23" pageNumber="60" phylum="Chordata" rank="species" species="subtriedrus">
<emphasis id="F28AEABBFFAAC335FBA1F809FB67F870" box="[1085,1248,1985,2009]" italics="true" pageId="23" pageNumber="60">H. subtriedrus</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
and
<taxonomicName id="07FE4D2AFFAAC335FA85F809FA12F870" box="[1305,1429,1985,2009]" class="Reptilia" family="Gekkonidae" genus="Hemidactylus" kingdom="Animalia" order="Squamata" pageId="23" pageNumber="60" phylum="Chordata" rank="species" species="triedrus">
<emphasis id="F28AEABBFFAAC335FA85F809FA12F870" box="[1305,1429,1985,2009]" italics="true" pageId="23" pageNumber="60">H. triedrus</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
, but considered it as conspecific with
<taxonomicName id="07FE4D2AFFA5C33AFDAAFF52FD35FF19" box="[566,690,152,176]" class="Reptilia" family="Gekkonidae" genus="Hemidactylus" kingdom="Animalia" order="Squamata" pageId="24" pageNumber="61" phylum="Chordata" rank="species" species="triedrus">
<emphasis id="F28AEABBFFA5C33AFDAAFF52FD35FF19" box="[566,690,152,176]" italics="true" pageId="24" pageNumber="61">H. triedrus</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
and further questioned the validity of
<taxonomicName id="07FE4D2AFFA5C33AFBFCFF52FA85FF19" box="[1120,1282,152,176]" class="Reptilia" family="Gekkonidae" genus="Hemidactylus" kingdom="Animalia" order="Squamata" pageId="24" pageNumber="61" phylum="Chordata" rank="species" species="subtriedrus">
<emphasis id="F28AEABBFFA5C33AFBFCFF52FA85FF19" box="[1120,1282,152,176]" italics="true" pageId="24" pageNumber="61">H. subtriedrus</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
. Annandale’s (1905b) list of Indian gekkonids marks
<taxonomicName id="07FE4D2AFFA5C33AFDCFFF76FD73FF7D" box="[595,756,188,212]" class="Reptilia" family="Gekkonidae" genus="Hemidactylus" kingdom="Animalia" order="Squamata" pageId="24" pageNumber="61" phylum="Chordata" rank="species" species="subtriedrus">
<emphasis id="F28AEABBFFA5C33AFDCFFF76FD73FF7D" box="[595,756,188,212]" italics="true" pageId="24" pageNumber="61">H. subtriedrus</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
as a species not represented in the ZSI collection, indicating that the
<typeStatus id="1F45880BFFA5C33AFF6BFF2BFEA0FF51" box="[247,295,224,248]" pageId="24" pageNumber="61">type</typeStatus>
specimens were already lost by 1905.
<bibRefCitation id="A46F4B58FFA5C33AFD71FF14FC2CFF5E" author="Theobald" box="[749,939,223,247]" pageId="24" pageNumber="61" refString="Theobald, W. (1876) Descriptive Catalogue of the Reptiles of British India. Thacker, Spink and Co., Calcutta. x + 238 pp. + xxxviii + xiii + 7 pls." type="book" year="1876">Theobald (1876)</bibRefCitation>
provides two accounts of the species, first within the section dealing with
<taxonomicName id="07FE4D2AFFA5C33AFD86FECFFD33FEB5" box="[538,692,260,284]" class="Reptilia" family="Gekkonidae" genus="Hemidactylus" kingdom="Animalia" order="Squamata" pageId="24" pageNumber="61" phylum="Chordata" rank="genus">
<emphasis id="F28AEABBFFA5C33AFD86FECFFD33FEB5" box="[538,692,260,284]" italics="true" pageId="24" pageNumber="61">Hemidactylus</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
where he briefly summarised the diagnosis of
<bibRefCitation id="A46F4B58FFA5C33AFB65FECFFA1BFEB5" author="Jerdon" box="[1273,1436,260,284]" pageId="24" pageNumber="61" refString="Jerdon, T. C. (1853) Catalogue of reptiles inhabiting the peninsula of India. Part 1. Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal, 22, 462 - 479." type="journal article" year="1853">Jerdon (1853)</bibRefCitation>
(
<bibRefCitation id="A46F4B58FFA5C33AFF02FEECFDC5FEE9" author="Theobald" box="[158,578,295,320]" pageId="24" pageNumber="61" refString="Theobald, W. (1876) Descriptive Catalogue of the Reptiles of British India. Thacker, Spink and Co., Calcutta. x + 238 pp. + xxxviii + xiii + 7 pls." type="book" year="1876">
Theobald 1876:75, as
<emphasis id="F28AEABBFFA5C33AFE04FEE2FDC5FEE9" box="[408,578,296,320]" italics="true" pageId="24" pageNumber="61">H. sub-triedrus</emphasis>
</bibRefCitation>
). Then, within the section dealing with
<taxonomicName id="07FE4D2AFFA5C33AFC63FEE3FB2AFEE9" box="[1023,1197,296,320]" class="Reptilia" family="Phyllodactylidae" genus="Gymnodactylus" kingdom="Animalia" order="Squamata" pageId="24" pageNumber="61" phylum="Chordata" rank="genus">
<emphasis id="F28AEABBFFA5C33AFC63FEE3FB2AFEE9" box="[1023,1197,296,320]" italics="true" pageId="24" pageNumber="61">Gymnodactylus</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
as
<taxonomicName id="07FE4D2AFFA5C33AFB4EFEE2FAF3FEE9" box="[1234,1396,296,320]" class="Reptilia" family="Gekkonidae" genus="Hemidactylus" kingdom="Animalia" order="Squamata" pageId="24" pageNumber="61" phylum="Chordata" rank="species" species="subtriedrus">
<emphasis id="F28AEABBFFA5C33AFB4EFEE2FAF3FEE9" box="[1234,1396,296,320]" italics="true" pageId="24" pageNumber="61">H. subtriedrus</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
, he provides another description to include scale counts and colouration of specimens, which could correspond with
<taxonomicName id="07FE4D2AFFA5C33AFA1DFE86FF77FE21" class="Reptilia" family="Gekkonidae" genus="Hemidactylus" kingdom="Animalia" order="Squamata" pageId="24" pageNumber="61" phylum="Chordata" rank="species" species="triedrus">
<emphasis id="F28AEABBFFA5C33AFA1DFE86FF77FE21" italics="true" pageId="24" pageNumber="61">H. triedrus</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
(
<bibRefCitation id="A46F4B58FFA5C33AFE9CFEA4FBBCFE21" author="Theobald" box="[256,1083,367,392]" pageId="24" pageNumber="61" refString="Theobald, W. (1876) Descriptive Catalogue of the Reptiles of British India. Thacker, Spink and Co., Calcutta. x + 238 pp. + xxxviii + xiii + 7 pls." type="book" year="1876">
Theobald 1876:85––
<emphasis id="F28AEABBFFA5C33AFE70FEBBFDC7FE21" box="[492,576,368,392]" italics="true" pageId="24" pageNumber="61">ibidem.</emphasis>
:237, indexed as
<taxonomicName id="07FE4D2AFFA5C33AFC98FEBBFBBCFE21" box="[772,1083,368,392]" class="Reptilia" family="Phyllodactylidae" genus="Gymnodactylus" kingdom="Animalia" order="Squamata" pageId="24" pageNumber="61" phylum="Chordata" rank="species" species="subtriedrus">
<emphasis id="F28AEABBFFA5C33AFC98FEBBFBBCFE21" box="[772,1083,368,392]" italics="true" pageId="24" pageNumber="61">Gymnodactylus subtriedrus</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
</bibRefCitation>
). This error is corrected in the Errata et addenda (
<bibRefCitation id="A46F4B58FFA5C33AFEF3FE5FFDBDFE05" author="Theobald" box="[367,570,404,428]" pageId="24" pageNumber="61" refString="Theobald, W. (1876) Descriptive Catalogue of the Reptiles of British India. Thacker, Spink and Co., Calcutta. x + 238 pp. + xxxviii + xiii + 7 pls." type="book" year="1876">Theobald 1876:ix</bibRefCitation>
) where the second account (on pg. 85) is suggested to be removed, but not incorporated into the earlier description (on pg. 75).
<bibRefCitation id="A46F4B58FFA5C33AFD43FE7CFC23FE66" author="Boulenger" box="[735,932,439,463]" pageId="24" pageNumber="61" refString="Boulenger, G. A. (1885) Catalogue of the Lizards in the British Museum (Natural History). Second Ed.; Volume 1: Gekkonidae, Eublepharidae, Uroplatidae, Pygopodidae, Agamidae. Taylor &amp; Francis, London. xii + 436 pp. + Pl. I - XXXII" type="book" year="1885">Boulenger (1885)</bibRefCitation>
further complicated the taxonomy of
<taxonomicName id="07FE4D2AFFA5C33AFAD6FE72FF68FE5D" class="Reptilia" family="Phyllodactylidae" genus="Gymnodactylus" kingdom="Animalia" order="Squamata" pageId="24" pageNumber="61" phylum="Chordata" rank="species" species="subtriedrus">
<emphasis id="F28AEABBFFA5C33AFAD6FE72FF68FE5D" italics="true" pageId="24" pageNumber="61">H. subtriedrus</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
. He gave, for the first time, lamellae and labial scale counts, which he considered to differentiate
<taxonomicName id="07FE4D2AFFA5C33AFAD4FE16FF68FDB1" class="Reptilia" family="Phyllodactylidae" genus="Gymnodactylus" kingdom="Animalia" order="Squamata" pageId="24" pageNumber="61" phylum="Chordata" rank="species" species="subtriedrus">
<emphasis id="F28AEABBFFA5C33AFAD4FE16FF68FDB1" italics="true" pageId="24" pageNumber="61">H. subtriedrus</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
from
<taxonomicName id="07FE4D2AFFA5C33AFEAFFDCAFE2AFDB1" box="[307,429,512,536]" class="Reptilia" family="Gekkonidae" genus="Hemidactylus" kingdom="Animalia" order="Squamata" pageId="24" pageNumber="61" phylum="Chordata" rank="species" species="triedrus">
<emphasis id="F28AEABBFFA5C33AFEAFFDCAFE2AFDB1" box="[307,429,512,536]" italics="true" pageId="24" pageNumber="61">H. triedrus</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
. These characters were obtained from a single subadult female specimen also collected by Blanford, from Khammam District, northern Andhra Pradesh, approx.
<quantity id="07069B4CFFA5C33AFC20FDEFFB94FD95" box="[956,1043,548,572]" metricMagnitude="5" metricUnit="m" metricValue="3.7" pageId="24" pageNumber="61" unit="km" value="370.0">370 km</quantity>
north of the
<typeStatus id="1F45880BFFA5C33AFB36FDEEFB5DFD94" box="[1194,1242,549,573]" pageId="24" pageNumber="61">type</typeStatus>
locality. He also erroneously gave the
<typeStatus id="1F45880BFFA5C33AFE11FD83FE3AFDC9" box="[397,445,584,608]" pageId="24" pageNumber="61">type</typeStatus>
locality as Ellore.
<bibRefCitation id="A46F4B58FFA5C33AFD05FD8CFCE3FDF6" author="Boulenger" box="[665,868,583,607]" pageId="24" pageNumber="61" refString="Boulenger, G. A. (1890) The Fauna of British India, Including Ceylon and Burma. Reptilia and Batrachia. Taylor &amp; Francis, London. xviii + 541 pp." type="book" year="1890">Boulenger (1890)</bibRefCitation>
, repeated these characters but omitted the Khammam locality from the distribution, mentioning only Nellore and Ellore.
<bibRefCitation id="A46F4B58FFA5C33AFC51FDA7FBE5FD2D" author="Smith" box="[973,1122,620,644]" pageId="24" pageNumber="61" refString="Smith, M. A. (1935) The Fauna of British India, Including Ceylon and Burma. Reptilia and Amphibia. Vol. II. - Sauria. Taylor and Francis, London. xiii + 440 pp., 2 folding maps, 1 pl." type="book" year="1935">Smith (1935)</bibRefCitation>
repeated the diagnosis provided by
<bibRefCitation id="A46F4B58FFA5C33AFE9EFD44FE4CFD0E" author="Boulenger" box="[258,459,655,679]" pageId="24" pageNumber="61" refString="Boulenger, G. A. (1885) Catalogue of the Lizards in the British Museum (Natural History). Second Ed.; Volume 1: Gekkonidae, Eublepharidae, Uroplatidae, Pygopodidae, Agamidae. Taylor &amp; Francis, London. xii + 436 pp. + Pl. I - XXXII" type="book" year="1885">Boulenger (1885)</bibRefCitation>
, which subsequently formed the basis of all future identifications of
<taxonomicName id="07FE4D2AFFA5C33AFB47FD5AFAFAFD01" box="[1243,1405,656,680]" class="Reptilia" family="Phyllodactylidae" genus="Gymnodactylus" kingdom="Animalia" order="Squamata" pageId="24" pageNumber="61" phylum="Chordata" rank="species" species="subtriedrus">
<emphasis id="F28AEABBFFA5C33AFB47FD5AFAFAFD01" box="[1243,1405,656,680]" italics="true" pageId="24" pageNumber="61">H. subtriedrus</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
in literature. Of the above mentioned authors,
<bibRefCitation id="A46F4B58FFA5C33AFD00FD7FFCD4FD65" author="Stoliczka" box="[668,851,692,716]" pageId="24" pageNumber="61" refString="Stoliczka, F. (1871) Notes on new or little known Indian lizards. Proceedings of the Asiatic Society of Bengal, 1871, 192 - 195." type="proceedings paper" year="1871">Stoliczka (1871</bibRefCitation>
,
<bibRefCitation id="A46F4B58FFA5C33AFCFFFD7FFC18FD65" author="Stoliczka" box="[867,927,692,716]" pageId="24" pageNumber="61" refString="Stoliczka, F. (1872) Notes on various new or little-known Indian lizards. Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal, 41 (2), 86 - 135 + Pl. II - V." type="journal article" year="1872">1872</bibRefCitation>
),
<bibRefCitation id="A46F4B58FFA5C33AFC2BFD7FFBFEFD65" author="Theobald" box="[951,1145,692,716]" pageId="24" pageNumber="61" refString="Theobald, W. (1876) Descriptive Catalogue of the Reptiles of British India. Thacker, Spink and Co., Calcutta. x + 238 pp. + xxxviii + xiii + 7 pls." type="book" year="1876">Theobald (1876)</bibRefCitation>
,
<bibRefCitation id="A46F4B58FFA5C33AFB16FD7FFAE0FD65" author="Annandale" box="[1162,1383,692,716]" pageId="24" pageNumber="61" refString="Annandale, N. (1905 b) Contributions to Oriental Herpetology. Supplement II. Notes on the Oriental lizards in the Indian Museum, with a list of the species recorded from British India and Ceylon. Journal Proceedings of the Asiatic Society Bengal, 1 (3), 81 - 93 + Pl. I - II." type="journal article" year="1905" yearSuffix="b">Annandale (1905b)</bibRefCitation>
and
<bibRefCitation id="A46F4B58FFA5C33AFF0BFD1CFEACFD46" author="Smith" box="[151,299,727,751]" pageId="24" pageNumber="61" refString="Smith, M. A. (1935) The Fauna of British India, Including Ceylon and Burma. Reptilia and Amphibia. Vol. II. - Sauria. Taylor and Francis, London. xiii + 440 pp., 2 folding maps, 1 pl." type="book" year="1935">Smith (1935)</bibRefCitation>
all doubted the validity of
<taxonomicName id="07FE4D2AFFA5C33AFDC7FD12FD7AFD59" box="[603,765,728,752]" class="Reptilia" family="Phyllodactylidae" genus="Gymnodactylus" kingdom="Animalia" order="Squamata" pageId="24" pageNumber="61" phylum="Chordata" rank="species" species="subtriedrus">
<emphasis id="F28AEABBFFA5C33AFDC7FD12FD7AFD59" box="[603,765,728,752]" italics="true" pageId="24" pageNumber="61">H. subtriedrus</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
based on specimens from Nellore, and/or Ellore.
</paragraph>
<paragraph id="C04136A9FFA5C33AFF59FD37FA1BFA86" blockId="24.[151,1436,151,1797]" pageId="24" pageNumber="61">
This species has began appearing in publications with new localities only recently, however, these studies did not have specimens from the
<typeStatus id="1F45880BFFA5C33AFE42FCEAFD89FC90" box="[478,526,801,825]" pageId="24" pageNumber="61">type</typeStatus>
locality or nearby, instead they relied on the diagnosis of
<taxonomicName id="07FE4D2AFFA5C33AFB0DFCEAFAB5FC91" box="[1169,1330,800,824]" class="Reptilia" family="Phyllodactylidae" genus="Gymnodactylus" kingdom="Animalia" order="Squamata" pageId="24" pageNumber="61" phylum="Chordata" rank="species" species="subtriedrus">
<emphasis id="F28AEABBFFA5C33AFB0DFCEAFAB5FC91" box="[1169,1330,800,824]" italics="true" pageId="24" pageNumber="61">H. subtriedrus</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
provided in
<bibRefCitation id="A46F4B58FFA5C33AFF2FFC8FFECDFCF5" author="Smith" box="[179,330,836,860]" pageId="24" pageNumber="61" refString="Smith, M. A. (1935) The Fauna of British India, Including Ceylon and Burma. Reptilia and Amphibia. Vol. II. - Sauria. Taylor and Francis, London. xiii + 440 pp., 2 folding maps, 1 pl." type="book" year="1935">Smith (1935)</bibRefCitation>
, not
<bibRefCitation id="A46F4B58FFA5C33AFE1CFC8FFD98FCF5" author="Jerdon" box="[384,543,836,860]" pageId="24" pageNumber="61" refString="Jerdon, T. C. (1853) Catalogue of reptiles inhabiting the peninsula of India. Part 1. Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal, 22, 462 - 479." type="journal article" year="1853">Jerdon (1853)</bibRefCitation>
, for identifying their specimens.
<bibRefCitation id="A46F4B58FFA5C33AFC0DFC8FFBF7FCF5" author="Mahony" box="[913,1136,836,860]" pageId="24" pageNumber="61" refString="Mahony, S. (2009 a) A new species of gecko of the genus Hemidactylus (Reptilia: Gekkonidae) from Andhra Pradesh, India. Russian Journal of Herpetology, 16 (1), 27 - 34." type="journal article" year="2009" yearSuffix="a">Mahony (2009a:34)</bibRefCitation>
identified, without discussion, the voucher specimen ZSI 24151 as
<taxonomicName id="07FE4D2AFFA5C33AFDE1FCA3FC3DFC29" box="[637,954,871,896]" class="Reptilia" family="Gekkonidae" genus="Hemidactylus" kingdom="Animalia" order="Squamata" pageId="24" pageNumber="61" phylum="Chordata" rank="species" species="maculatus">
<emphasis id="F28AEABBFFA5C33AFDE1FCA3FC90FC29" box="[637,791,872,896]" italics="true" pageId="24" pageNumber="61">Hemidactylus</emphasis>
cf.
<emphasis id="F28AEABBFFA5C33AFCDBFCA3FC3DFC29" box="[839,954,872,896]" italics="true" pageId="24" pageNumber="61">maculatus</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
, previously reported as
<taxonomicName id="07FE4D2AFFA5C33AFB4EFCA2FAF0FC29" box="[1234,1399,872,896]" class="Reptilia" family="Phyllodactylidae" genus="Gymnodactylus" kingdom="Animalia" order="Squamata" pageId="24" pageNumber="61" phylum="Chordata" rank="species" species="subtriedrus">
<emphasis id="F28AEABBFFA5C33AFB4EFCA2FAF0FC29" box="[1234,1399,872,896]" italics="true" pageId="24" pageNumber="61">H. subtriedrus</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
by
<bibRefCitation id="A46F4B58FFA5C33AFF0BFC47FE59FC0D" author="Sanyal" box="[151,478,908,933]" pageId="24" pageNumber="61" refString="Sanyal, D. P. &amp; Dasgupta, G. (1990) On a collection of reptiles from Bastar District, Madhya Pradesh, central India. Hamadryad, 15 (1), 18 - 20." type="journal article" year="1990">Sanyal and Dasgupta (1990)</bibRefCitation>
, and later cited by
<bibRefCitation id="A46F4B58FFA5C33AFD22FC47FC68FC0D" author="Chandra" box="[702,1007,908,932]" pageId="24" pageNumber="61" refString="Chandra, K. &amp; Gajbe, P. U. (2005) An inventory of herpetofauna of Madhya Pradesh and Chhattisgarh. Zoos' Print Journal, 20 (3), 1812 - 1819." type="journal article" year="2005">Chandra and Gajbe (2005)</bibRefCitation>
.
<bibRefCitation id="A46F4B58FFA5C33AFC63FC47FB52FC0D" box="[1023,1237,908,932]" pageId="24" pageNumber="61" refString="Javed, S. M. M., Mirza, Z. A., Srinivasulu, C., Murthy, B. H. C. K. &amp; Tampal, F. (2011) A divergent population of Hemidactylus maculatus maculatus Dumeril et Bibron, 1836 (Reptilia: Sauria: Gekkonidae) from the northern Eastern Ghats, India." type="journal volume">
Javed
<emphasis id="F28AEABBFFA5C33AFBD4FC46FB05FC0D" box="[1096,1154,908,932]" italics="true" pageId="24" pageNumber="61">et al.</emphasis>
(2011)
</bibRefCitation>
concurs with the aforementioned correction along with a detailed description of the eastern
<taxonomicName id="07FE4D2AFFA5C33AFC43FC7AFBF2FC61" box="[991,1141,944,968]" class="Reptilia" family="Gekkonidae" genus="Hemidactylus" kingdom="Animalia" order="Squamata" pageId="24" pageNumber="61" phylum="Chordata" rank="species" species="maculatus">
<emphasis id="F28AEABBFFA5C33AFC43FC7AFBF2FC61" box="[991,1141,944,968]" italics="true" pageId="24" pageNumber="61">H. maculatus</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
morphotype, and corrects other misidentifications from northern Andhra Pradesh and Chhattisgarh (
<bibRefCitation id="A46F4B58FFA5C33AFC42FC1FFB20FC45" author="Javed" box="[990,1191,980,1004]" pageId="24" pageNumber="61" refString="Javed, S. M. M., Saravanan, A., Tampal, F. &amp; Srinivasulu, C. (2009) Occurrence and comparison of Jerdon's gecko Hemidactylus subtriedrus Jerdon 1853 with Termite hill gecko Hemidactylus triedrus (Daudin 1802) from Ananthagiri Hills, northern Eastern Ghats, India. Journal of Threatened Taxa, 1 (7), 366 - 369." type="journal article" year="2009">
Javed
<emphasis id="F28AEABBFFA5C33AFBB4FC1EFBE5FC45" box="[1064,1122,980,1004]" italics="true" pageId="24" pageNumber="61">et al.</emphasis>
2009
</bibRefCitation>
). I have examined all specimens labeled as
<taxonomicName id="07FE4D2AFFA5C33AFE0DFC32FDB1FBB9" box="[401,566,1016,1040]" class="Reptilia" family="Phyllodactylidae" genus="Gymnodactylus" kingdom="Animalia" order="Squamata" pageId="24" pageNumber="61" phylum="Chordata" rank="species" species="subtriedrus">
<emphasis id="F28AEABBFFA5C33AFE0DFC32FDB1FBB9" box="[401,566,1016,1040]" italics="true" pageId="24" pageNumber="61">H. subtriedrus</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
in the ZSI and BMNH, except the Ellore specimen (
<bibRefCitation id="A46F4B58FFA5C33AFB3CFC3CFACAFBA6" author="Stoliczka" box="[1184,1357,1015,1039]" pageId="24" pageNumber="61" refString="Stoliczka, F. (1871) Notes on new or little known Indian lizards. Proceedings of the Asiatic Society of Bengal, 1871, 192 - 195." type="proceedings paper" year="1871">Stoliczka 1871</bibRefCitation>
,
<bibRefCitation id="A46F4B58FFA5C33AFAC0FC3CFA10FBA6" author="Stoliczka" box="[1372,1431,1015,1039]" pageId="24" pageNumber="61" refString="Stoliczka, F. (1872) Notes on various new or little-known Indian lizards. Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal, 41 (2), 86 - 135 + Pl. II - V." type="journal article" year="1872">1872</bibRefCitation>
;
<bibRefCitation id="A46F4B58FFA5C33AFF0BFBD7FEB9FB9D" author="Blanford" box="[151,318,1052,1076]" pageId="24" pageNumber="61" refString="Blanford, W. T. (1879) Notes on a collection of reptiles and frogs from the neighbourhood of Ellore and Dumagudem. Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal, 48 (2), 110 - 116." type="journal article" year="1879">Blanford 1879</bibRefCitation>
;
<bibRefCitation id="A46F4B58FFA5C33AFED7FBD7FD99FB9D" author="Annandale" box="[331,542,1052,1076]" pageId="24" pageNumber="61" refString="Annandale, N. (1905 b) Contributions to Oriental Herpetology. Supplement II. Notes on the Oriental lizards in the Indian Museum, with a list of the species recorded from British India and Ceylon. Journal Proceedings of the Asiatic Society Bengal, 1 (3), 81 - 93 + Pl. I - II." type="journal article" year="1905" yearSuffix="b">Annandale, 1905b</bibRefCitation>
). If it still exists, it is likely mixed in the general collection of
<taxonomicName id="07FE4D2AFFA5C33AFB74FBD6FAE2FB9D" box="[1256,1381,1052,1076]" class="Reptilia" family="Gekkonidae" genus="Hemidactylus" kingdom="Animalia" order="Squamata" pageId="24" pageNumber="61" phylum="Chordata" rank="species" species="triedrus">
<emphasis id="F28AEABBFFA5C33AFB74FBD6FAE2FB9D" box="[1256,1381,1052,1076]" italics="true" pageId="24" pageNumber="61">H. triedrus</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
, and attempts should be made to source it by future revisers. The specimen described by
<bibRefCitation id="A46F4B58FFA5C33AFBD3FB8BFA88FBF1" author="Boulenger" box="[1103,1295,1088,1112]" pageId="24" pageNumber="61" refString="Boulenger, G. A. (1885) Catalogue of the Lizards in the British Museum (Natural History). Second Ed.; Volume 1: Gekkonidae, Eublepharidae, Uroplatidae, Pygopodidae, Agamidae. Taylor &amp; Francis, London. xii + 436 pp. + Pl. I - XXXII" type="book" year="1885">Boulenger (1885</bibRefCitation>
,
<bibRefCitation id="A46F4B58FFA5C33AFA80FB8BFAD2FBF1" author="Boulenger" box="[1308,1365,1088,1112]" pageId="24" pageNumber="61" refString="Boulenger, G. A. (1890) The Fauna of British India, Including Ceylon and Burma. Reptilia and Batrachia. Taylor &amp; Francis, London. xviii + 541 pp." type="book" year="1890">1890</bibRefCitation>
) from Khammam District, northern Andhra Pradesh (BMNH [18]74.11.11.1) and a specimen apparently not referred in literature from Ganjam District, central Orissa (ZSI 25780) also appear to be referable to
<taxonomicName id="07FE4D2AFFA5C33AFB24FB42FAFEFB09" box="[1208,1401,1160,1184]" class="Reptilia" family="Gekkonidae" genus="Hemidactylus" kingdom="Animalia" order="Squamata" pageId="24" pageNumber="61" phylum="Chordata" rank="species" species="maculatus">
<emphasis id="F28AEABBFFA5C33AFB24FB42FB53FB09" box="[1208,1236,1161,1184]" italics="true" pageId="24" pageNumber="61">H.</emphasis>
cf.
<emphasis id="F28AEABBFFA5C33AFA9AFB43FAFEFB09" box="[1286,1401,1160,1184]" italics="true" pageId="24" pageNumber="61">maculatus</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
as defined by
<bibRefCitation id="A46F4B58FFA5C33AFE89FB67FE6FFB6D" box="[277,488,1196,1220]" pageId="24" pageNumber="61" refString="Javed, S. M. M., Mirza, Z. A., Srinivasulu, C., Murthy, B. H. C. K. &amp; Tampal, F. (2011) A divergent population of Hemidactylus maculatus maculatus Dumeril et Bibron, 1836 (Reptilia: Sauria: Gekkonidae) from the northern Eastern Ghats, India." type="journal volume">
Javed
<emphasis id="F28AEABBFFA5C33AFEC0FB66FE13FB6D" box="[348,404,1196,1220]" italics="true" pageId="24" pageNumber="61">et al.</emphasis>
(2011)
</bibRefCitation>
.
<bibRefCitation id="A46F4B58FFA5C33AFE6FFB66FD54FB6D" box="[499,723,1196,1220]" pageId="24" pageNumber="61" refString="Bauer, A. M., Jackman, T. R., Greenbaum, E., Giri, V. B. &amp; de Silva, A. (2010 a) South Asia supports a major endemic radiation of Hemidactylus geckos. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution, 57 (1), 343 - 352." type="journal article">
Bauer
<emphasis id="F28AEABBFFA5C33AFDA1FB66FDF2FB6D" box="[573,629,1196,1220]" italics="true" pageId="24" pageNumber="61">et al.</emphasis>
(2010a)
</bibRefCitation>
propose the validity of
<taxonomicName id="07FE4D2AFFA5C33AFC42FB66FB07FB6D" box="[990,1152,1196,1220]" class="Reptilia" family="Phyllodactylidae" genus="Gymnodactylus" kingdom="Animalia" order="Squamata" pageId="24" pageNumber="61" phylum="Chordata" rank="species" species="subtriedrus">
<emphasis id="F28AEABBFFA5C33AFC42FB66FB07FB6D" box="[990,1152,1196,1220]" italics="true" pageId="24" pageNumber="61">H. subtriedrus</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
based on molecular phylogenetic divergence between captive specimens of
<taxonomicName id="07FE4D2AFFA5C33AFD77FB1AFC08FB41" box="[747,911,1232,1256]" class="Reptilia" family="Phyllodactylidae" genus="Gymnodactylus" kingdom="Animalia" order="Squamata" pageId="24" pageNumber="61" phylum="Chordata" rank="species" species="subtriedrus">
<emphasis id="F28AEABBFFA5C33AFD77FB1AFC08FB41" box="[747,911,1232,1256]" italics="true" pageId="24" pageNumber="61">H. subtriedrus</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
(from
<collectingCountry id="B8E97639FFA5C33AFC7EFB1BFB9AFB41" box="[994,1053,1232,1256]" name="India" pageId="24" pageNumber="61">India</collectingCountry>
) and
<taxonomicName id="07FE4D2AFFA5C33AFBFCFB1AFB59FB41" box="[1120,1246,1232,1256]" class="Reptilia" family="Gekkonidae" genus="Hemidactylus" kingdom="Animalia" order="Squamata" pageId="24" pageNumber="61" phylum="Chordata" rank="species" species="triedrus">
<emphasis id="F28AEABBFFA5C33AFBFCFB1AFB59FB41" box="[1120,1246,1232,1256]" italics="true" pageId="24" pageNumber="61">H. triedrus</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
(from
<collectingCountry id="B8E97639FFA5C33AFAACFB1BFAEDFB41" box="[1328,1386,1232,1256]" name="India" pageId="24" pageNumber="61">India</collectingCountry>
and
<collectingCountry id="B8E97639FFA5C33AFF0BFB3FFF7CFAA5" box="[151,251,1268,1292]" name="Pakistan" pageId="24" pageNumber="61">Pakistan</collectingCountry>
). In light of the history of taxonomic confusion regarding
<taxonomicName id="07FE4D2AFFA5C33AFCE3FB3EFBA6FAA5" box="[895,1057,1268,1292]" class="Reptilia" family="Phyllodactylidae" genus="Gymnodactylus" kingdom="Animalia" order="Squamata" pageId="24" pageNumber="61" phylum="Chordata" rank="species" species="subtriedrus">
<emphasis id="F28AEABBFFA5C33AFCE3FB3EFBA6FAA5" box="[895,1057,1268,1292]" italics="true" pageId="24" pageNumber="61">H. subtriedrus</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
, a morphological characterisation of the specimen sampled by
<bibRefCitation id="A46F4B58FFA5C33AFE49FAD3FD33FA86" box="[469,692,1303,1328]" pageId="24" pageNumber="61" refString="Bauer, A. M., Jackman, T. R., Greenbaum, E., Giri, V. B. &amp; de Silva, A. (2010 a) South Asia supports a major endemic radiation of Hemidactylus geckos. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution, 57 (1), 343 - 352." type="journal article">
Bauer
<emphasis id="F28AEABBFFA5C33AFD82FAD2FDD0FA99" box="[542,599,1304,1328]" italics="true" pageId="24" pageNumber="61">et al.</emphasis>
(2010a)
</bibRefCitation>
would be necessary to verify a proposal of validity of this species.
</paragraph>
<paragraph id="C04136A9FFA5C33AFF59FAF6FB14F8AD" blockId="24.[151,1436,151,1797]" pageId="24" pageNumber="61">
In summary, the only reliable morphological information on the species
<taxonomicName id="07FE4D2AFFA5C33AFC68FAF6FB10FAFD" box="[1012,1175,1340,1364]" class="Reptilia" family="Phyllodactylidae" genus="Gymnodactylus" kingdom="Animalia" order="Squamata" pageId="24" pageNumber="61" phylum="Chordata" rank="species" species="subtriedrus">
<emphasis id="F28AEABBFFA5C33AFC68FAF6FB10FAFD" box="[1012,1175,1340,1364]" italics="true" pageId="24" pageNumber="61">H. subtriedrus</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
is the original description. All additional localities and morphological information provided by subsequent authors were based on a comparison with a specimen initially described by
<bibRefCitation id="A46F4B58FFA5C33AFD38FA4FFCEAFA35" author="Boulenger" box="[676,877,1412,1436]" pageId="24" pageNumber="61" refString="Boulenger, G. A. (1885) Catalogue of the Lizards in the British Museum (Natural History). Second Ed.; Volume 1: Gekkonidae, Eublepharidae, Uroplatidae, Pygopodidae, Agamidae. Taylor &amp; Francis, London. xii + 436 pp. + Pl. I - XXXII" type="book" year="1885">Boulenger (1885)</bibRefCitation>
, representing
<taxonomicName id="07FE4D2AFFA5C33AFB90FA4EFB42FA35" box="[1036,1221,1412,1436]" class="Reptilia" family="Gekkonidae" genus="Hemidactylus" kingdom="Animalia" order="Squamata" pageId="24" pageNumber="61" phylum="Chordata" rank="species" species="maculatus">
<emphasis id="F28AEABBFFA5C33AFB90FA4EFBA0FA35" box="[1036,1063,1413,1436]" italics="true" pageId="24" pageNumber="61">H.</emphasis>
cf.
<emphasis id="F28AEABBFFA5C33AFBCEFA4FFB42FA35" box="[1106,1221,1412,1436]" italics="true" pageId="24" pageNumber="61">maculatus</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
(
<emphasis id="F28AEABBFFA5C33AFB4AFA4EFA93FA35" box="[1238,1300,1413,1436]" italics="true" pageId="24" pageNumber="61">sensu</emphasis>
<bibRefCitation id="A46F4B58FFA5C33AFA80FA4FFF55FA16" author="Javed" pageId="24" pageNumber="61" refString="Javed, S. M. M., Mirza, Z. A., Srinivasulu, C., Murthy, B. H. C. K. &amp; Tampal, F. (2011) A divergent population of Hemidactylus maculatus maculatus Dumeril et Bibron, 1836 (Reptilia: Sauria: Gekkonidae) from the northern Eastern Ghats, India." type="journal volume" year="2011">
Javed
<emphasis id="F28AEABBFFA5C33AFAFFFA4EFA1BFA35" box="[1379,1436,1412,1436]" italics="true" pageId="24" pageNumber="61">et al.</emphasis>
2011
</bibRefCitation>
), or are applicable to other species.
<bibRefCitation id="A46F4B58FFA5C33AFDF1FA6CFC8DFA16" author="Jerdon" box="[621,778,1447,1471]" pageId="24" pageNumber="61" refString="Jerdon, T. C. (1853) Catalogue of reptiles inhabiting the peninsula of India. Part 1. Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal, 22, 462 - 479." type="journal article" year="1853">Jerdon (1853)</bibRefCitation>
described several characters in the original description of
<taxonomicName id="07FE4D2AFFA5C33AFF0BFA06FEBDFA4D" box="[151,314,1484,1508]" class="Reptilia" family="Phyllodactylidae" genus="Gymnodactylus" kingdom="Animalia" order="Squamata" pageId="24" pageNumber="61" phylum="Chordata" rank="species" species="subtriedrus">
<emphasis id="F28AEABBFFA5C33AFF0BFA06FEBDFA4D" box="[151,314,1484,1508]" italics="true" pageId="24" pageNumber="61">H. subtriedrus</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
that differ from
<taxonomicName id="07FE4D2AFFA5C33AFE60FA06FD3FFA4D" box="[508,696,1484,1508]" class="Reptilia" family="Gekkonidae" genus="Hemidactylus" kingdom="Animalia" order="Squamata" pageId="24" pageNumber="61" phylum="Chordata" rank="species" species="maculatus">
<emphasis id="F28AEABBFFA5C33AFE60FA06FD90FA4D" box="[508,535,1485,1508]" italics="true" pageId="24" pageNumber="61">H.</emphasis>
cf.
<emphasis id="F28AEABBFFA5C33AFDD9FA07FD3FFA4D" box="[581,696,1484,1508]" italics="true" pageId="24" pageNumber="61">maculatus</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
(
<emphasis id="F28AEABBFFA5C33AFD56FA06FC8FFA4D" box="[714,776,1485,1508]" italics="true" pageId="24" pageNumber="61">sensu</emphasis>
<bibRefCitation id="A46F4B58FFA5C33AFC8DFA07FC50FA4D" author="Javed" box="[785,983,1484,1508]" pageId="24" pageNumber="61" refString="Javed, S. M. M., Mirza, Z. A., Srinivasulu, C., Murthy, B. H. C. K. &amp; Tampal, F. (2011) A divergent population of Hemidactylus maculatus maculatus Dumeril et Bibron, 1836 (Reptilia: Sauria: Gekkonidae) from the northern Eastern Ghats, India." type="journal volume" year="2011">
Javed
<emphasis id="F28AEABBFFA5C33AFCC6FA06FC13FA4D" box="[858,916,1484,1508]" italics="true" pageId="24" pageNumber="61">et al.</emphasis>
2011
</bibRefCitation>
), e.g., largest adult measured by Jerdon was 6½ inches total length (=
<quantity id="07069B4CFFA5C33AFD9BFA24FDEDF9AE" box="[519,618,1519,1543]" metricMagnitude="-1" metricUnit="m" metricValue="1.65" pageId="24" pageNumber="61" unit="mm" value="165.0">165 mm</quantity>
) (vs.
<quantity id="07069B4CFFA5C33AFD28FA24FC9DF9AE" box="[692,794,1519,1543]" metricMagnitude="-1" metricUnit="m" metricValue="2.59" pageId="24" pageNumber="61" unit="mm" value="259.0">259 mm</quantity>
), and “…number of femoral pores is the same [as
<taxonomicName id="07FE4D2AFFA5C33AFA1DFA3AFF68F985" class="Reptilia" family="Gekkonidae" genus="Hemidactylus" kingdom="Animalia" order="Squamata" pageId="24" pageNumber="61" phylum="Chordata" rank="species" species="triedrus">
<emphasis id="F28AEABBFFA5C33AFA1DFA3AFF68F985" italics="true" pageId="24" pageNumber="61">H. triedrus</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
]”, total pores 12–28 representing the maximum range for
<taxonomicName id="07FE4D2AFFA5C33AFC39F9DEFBA3F985" box="[933,1060,1556,1580]" class="Reptilia" family="Gekkonidae" genus="Hemidactylus" kingdom="Animalia" order="Squamata" pageId="24" pageNumber="61" phylum="Chordata" rank="species" species="triedrus">
<emphasis id="F28AEABBFFA5C33AFC39F9DEFBA3F985" box="[933,1060,1556,1580]" italics="true" pageId="24" pageNumber="61">H. triedrus</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
populations according to
<bibRefCitation id="A46F4B58FFA5C33AFAC5F9DFFF66F9E6" author="Smith" pageId="24" pageNumber="61" refString="Smith, M. A. (1935) The Fauna of British India, Including Ceylon and Burma. Reptilia and Amphibia. Vol. II. - Sauria. Taylor and Francis, London. xiii + 440 pp., 2 folding maps, 1 pl." type="book" year="1935">Smith (1935)</bibRefCitation>
(vs. total pores 42–50,
<bibRefCitation id="A46F4B58FFA5C33AFE77F9FCFD2AF9E6" author="Javed" box="[491,685,1591,1616]" pageId="24" pageNumber="61" refString="Javed, S. M. M., Mirza, Z. A., Srinivasulu, C., Murthy, B. H. C. K. &amp; Tampal, F. (2011) A divergent population of Hemidactylus maculatus maculatus Dumeril et Bibron, 1836 (Reptilia: Sauria: Gekkonidae) from the northern Eastern Ghats, India." type="journal volume" year="2011">
Javed
<emphasis id="F28AEABBFFA5C33AFDAEF9F2FDECF9F9" box="[562,619,1592,1616]" italics="true" pageId="24" pageNumber="61">et al.</emphasis>
2011
</bibRefCitation>
). Based on these considerable differences
<emphasis id="F28AEABBFFA5C33AFB15F9F2FAD1F9F9" box="[1161,1366,1592,1616]" italics="true" pageId="24" pageNumber="61">
<taxonomicName id="07FE4D2AFFA5C33AFB15F9F2FAABF9F9" box="[1161,1324,1592,1616]" class="Reptilia" family="Phyllodactylidae" genus="Gymnodactylus" kingdom="Animalia" order="Squamata" pageId="24" pageNumber="61" phylum="Chordata" rank="species" sensu="stricto" species="subtriedrus">H. subtriedrus</taxonomicName>
<taxonomicNameLabel id="E9B957C0FFA5C33AFAAFF9F2FAD1F9F9" box="[1331,1366,1593,1616]" pageId="24" pageNumber="61" sensu="stricto">s.s.</taxonomicNameLabel>
</emphasis>
is not conspecific with
<taxonomicName id="07FE4D2AFFA5C33AFECAF996FD89F9DD" box="[342,526,1628,1652]" class="Reptilia" family="Gekkonidae" genus="Hemidactylus" kingdom="Animalia" order="Squamata" pageId="24" pageNumber="61" phylum="Chordata" rank="species" species="maculatus">
<emphasis id="F28AEABBFFA5C33AFECAF996FEF5F9DD" box="[342,370,1629,1652]" italics="true" pageId="24" pageNumber="61">H.</emphasis>
cf.
<emphasis id="F28AEABBFFA5C33AFE07F997FD89F9DD" box="[411,526,1628,1652]" italics="true" pageId="24" pageNumber="61">maculatus</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
(
<emphasis id="F28AEABBFFA5C33AFD82F996FDDBF9DD" box="[542,604,1629,1652]" italics="true" pageId="24" pageNumber="61">sensu</emphasis>
<bibRefCitation id="A46F4B58FFA5C33AFDF8F997FCA2F9DD" author="Javed" box="[612,805,1628,1652]" pageId="24" pageNumber="61" refString="Javed, S. M. M., Mirza, Z. A., Srinivasulu, C., Murthy, B. H. C. K. &amp; Tampal, F. (2011) A divergent population of Hemidactylus maculatus maculatus Dumeril et Bibron, 1836 (Reptilia: Sauria: Gekkonidae) from the northern Eastern Ghats, India." type="journal volume" year="2011">
Javed
<emphasis id="F28AEABBFFA5C33AFD36F996FD65F9DD" box="[682,738,1628,1652]" italics="true" pageId="24" pageNumber="61">et al.</emphasis>
2011
</bibRefCitation>
). The nomenclatural status of
<taxonomicName id="07FE4D2AFFA5C33AFBE9F996FA91F9DD" box="[1141,1302,1628,1652]" class="Reptilia" family="Phyllodactylidae" genus="Gymnodactylus" kingdom="Animalia" order="Squamata" pageId="24" pageNumber="61" phylum="Chordata" rank="species" species="subtriedrus">
<emphasis id="F28AEABBFFA5C33AFBE9F996FA91F9DD" box="[1141,1302,1628,1652]" italics="true" pageId="24" pageNumber="61">H. subtriedrus</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
is currently unstable as the
<typeStatus id="1F45880BFFA5C33AFEDEF94AFEF5F930" box="[322,370,1665,1689]" pageId="24" pageNumber="61">type</typeStatus>
specimens are apparently lost or originally never deposited (
<bibRefCitation id="A46F4B58FFA5C33AFB84F9B4FB44F93E" author="Stoliczka" box="[1048,1219,1663,1687]" pageId="24" pageNumber="61" refString="Stoliczka, F. (1872) Notes on various new or little-known Indian lizards. Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal, 41 (2), 86 - 135 + Pl. II - V." type="journal article" year="1872">Stoliczka 1872</bibRefCitation>
;
<bibRefCitation id="A46F4B58FFA5C33AFB52F9B4FA1FF93E" author="Annandale" box="[1230,1432,1663,1687]" pageId="24" pageNumber="61" refString="Annandale, N. (1905 b) Contributions to Oriental Herpetology. Supplement II. Notes on the Oriental lizards in the Indian Museum, with a list of the species recorded from British India and Ceylon. Journal Proceedings of the Asiatic Society Bengal, 1 (3), 81 - 93 + Pl. I - II." type="journal article" year="1905" yearSuffix="b">Annandale 1905b</bibRefCitation>
; Das
<emphasis id="F28AEABBFFA5C33AFF57F96EFE83F915" box="[203,260,1700,1724]" italics="true" pageId="24" pageNumber="61">et al.</emphasis>
1998; pers. obs. 2007, 2009) and thus referable to a
<emphasis id="F28AEABBFFA5C33AFCC2F96EFB82F915" box="[862,1029,1700,1724]" italics="true" pageId="24" pageNumber="61">nomen dubium</emphasis>
. The species is therefore taxonomically ambiguous and in lieu of a taxonomic review of
<taxonomicName id="07FE4D2AFFA5C33AFD6BF902FCF5F949" box="[759,882,1736,1760]" class="Reptilia" family="Gekkonidae" genus="Hemidactylus" kingdom="Animalia" order="Squamata" pageId="24" pageNumber="61" phylum="Chordata" rank="species" species="triedrus">
<emphasis id="F28AEABBFFA5C33AFD6BF902FCF5F949" box="[759,882,1736,1760]" italics="true" pageId="24" pageNumber="61">H. triedrus</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
, I propose that
<taxonomicName id="07FE4D2AFFA5C33AFBBEF903FF48F8AD" authority="Jerdon, 1853" authorityName="Jerdon" authorityYear="1853" class="Reptilia" family="Gekkonidae" genus="Hemidactylus" kingdom="Animalia" order="Squamata" pageId="24" pageNumber="61" phylum="Chordata" rank="species" species="subtriedrus">
<emphasis id="F28AEABBFFA5C33AFBBEF903FAC5F949" box="[1058,1346,1736,1760]" italics="true" pageId="24" pageNumber="61">Hemidactylus subtriedrus</emphasis>
<bibRefCitation id="A46F4B58FFA5C33AFAD6F903FF48F8AD" author="Jerdon" pageId="24" pageNumber="61" refString="Jerdon, T. C. (1853) Catalogue of reptiles inhabiting the peninsula of India. Part 1. Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal, 22, 462 - 479." type="journal article" year="1853">Jerdon, 1853</bibRefCitation>
</taxonomicName>
be regarded as a junior subjective synonym of
<taxonomicName id="07FE4D2AFFA5C33AFD7CF927FB08F8AD" authority="Daudin, 1802" authorityName="Daudin" authorityYear="1802" box="[736,1167,1772,1796]" class="Reptilia" family="Gekkonidae" genus="Hemidactylus" kingdom="Animalia" order="Squamata" pageId="24" pageNumber="61" phylum="Chordata" rank="species" species="triedrus">
<emphasis id="F28AEABBFFA5C33AFD7CF927FC5DF8AD" box="[736,986,1772,1796]" italics="true" pageId="24" pageNumber="61">Hemidactylus triedrus</emphasis>
(
<bibRefCitation id="A46F4B58FFA5C33AFC75F927FB00F8AD" author="Daudin" box="[1001,1159,1772,1796]" pageId="24" pageNumber="61" refString="Daudin F. M. (1802) Histoire Naturelle, Generale et Partculiere des Reptiles. Vol. 4. F. Dufart, Paris. 397 pp. + Pl. XLVI - LVIII." type="book" year="1802">Daudin, 1802</bibRefCitation>
)
</taxonomicName>
.
</paragraph>
</subSubSection>
</treatment>
</document>
Reference in a new issue View git blame Copy permalink