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Ghatiana sanguinolenta, a new species of freshwater crab (Brachyura: Gecarcinucidae) from the Central Western Ghats of India
No full textPati, Sameer Kumar, Thackeray, Tejas, Pawar, Swapnil (2023): Ghatiana sanguinolenta, a new species of freshwater crab (Brachyura: Gecarcinucidae) from the Central Western Ghats of India. Zootaxa 5353 (4): 372-378, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5353.4.4, URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5353.4.
A new species of Chiromachetes Pocock, 1899 (Scorpiones: Hormuridae) from southern Western Ghats, India
No full textKhandekar, Akshay, Thackeray, Tejas, Pawar, Swapnil, Gangalmale, Satpal, Waghe, Vivek (2022): A new species of Chiromachetes Pocock, 1899 (Scorpiones: Hormuridae) from southern Western Ghats, India. Euscorpius 354: 1-13, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.716327
FIGURE 4 in Ghatiana sanguinolenta, a new species of freshwater crab (Brachyura: Gecarcinucidae) from the Central Western Ghats of India
No full textFIGURE 4. Ghatiana sanguinolenta sp. nov., colour in life, paratype female (28.45 × 18.26 mm), ZSI-WRC C.2354.Published as part of <i>Pati, Sameer Kumar, Thackeray, Tejas & Pawar, Swapnil, 2023, Ghatiana sanguinolenta, a new species of freshwater crab (Brachyura: Gecarcinucidae) from the Central Western Ghats of India, pp. 372-378 in Zootaxa 5353 (4)</i> on page 377, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5353.4.4, <a href="http://zenodo.org/record/8430765">http://zenodo.org/record/8430765</a>
FIGURE 1 in Ghatiana sanguinolenta, a new species of freshwater crab (Brachyura: Gecarcinucidae) from the Central Western Ghats of India
No full textFIGURE 1. Map of India and Western Ghats showing the type locality of Ghatiana sanguinolenta sp. nov.Published as part of <i>Pati, Sameer Kumar, Thackeray, Tejas & Pawar, Swapnil, 2023, Ghatiana sanguinolenta, a new species of freshwater crab (Brachyura: Gecarcinucidae) from the Central Western Ghats of India, pp. 372-378 in Zootaxa 5353 (4)</i> on page 373, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5353.4.4, <a href="http://zenodo.org/record/8430765">http://zenodo.org/record/8430765</a>
Figure 25 in A new species of Chiromachetes Pocock, 1899 (Scorpiones: Hormuridae) from southern Western Ghats, India
No full textFigure 25. Distribution of Chiromachetes in India.Published as part of <i>Khandekar, Akshay, Thackeray, Tejas, Pawar, Swapnil, Gangalmale, Satpal & Waghe, Vivek, 2022, A new species of Chiromachetes Pocock, 1899 (Scorpiones: Hormuridae) from southern Western Ghats, India, pp. 1-13 in Euscorpius 354</i> on page 10, DOI: <a href="http://zenodo.org/record/7163275">10.5281/zenodo.7163275</a>
Figures 18–21 in A new species of Chiromachetes Pocock, 1899 (Scorpiones: Hormuridae) from southern Western Ghats, India
No full textFigures 18–21: Chiromachetes agasthyamalaiensis sp. n., paratypes. Figures 18, 20. Paratype, NRC-AA-1190, dorsal (18), and ventral (20) views. Figures 19, 21. Paratype, BNHS SC 173, dorsal (19), and ventral (21) views. Scale bars = 10 mm.Published as part of Khandekar, Akshay, Thackeray, Tejas, Pawar, Swapnil, Gangalmale, Satpal & Waghe, Vivek, 2022, A new species of Chiromachetes Pocock, 1899 (Scorpiones: Hormuridae) from southern Western Ghats, India, pp. 1-13 in Euscorpius 354 on page 7, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.716327
Figures 11–17 in A new species of Chiromachetes Pocock, 1899 (Scorpiones: Hormuridae) from southern Western Ghats, India
No full textFigures 11–17. Chiromachetes agasthyamalaiensis sp. n., male holotype, trichobothrial pattern of the right pedipalp. Chela dorsal (11), ventral (12), and retrolateral (13) views. Patella dorsal (14), ventral (15), and retrolateral (16) views. Femur dorsal (17) view.Published as part of Khandekar, Akshay, Thackeray, Tejas, Pawar, Swapnil, Gangalmale, Satpal & Waghe, Vivek, 2022, A new species of Chiromachetes Pocock, 1899 (Scorpiones: Hormuridae) from southern Western Ghats, India, pp. 1-13 in Euscorpius 354 on page 6, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.716327
FIGURE 7 in A new medium-bodied rupicolous Hemidactylus Goldfuss, 1820 (Squamata Gekkonidae) from the Sirumalai massif, Tamil Nadu, India
No full textFIGURE 7. Hemidactylus sirumalaiensis sp. nov. in life: (A) male, holotype, NCBS-BH743, (B) female, paratype, NCBS-BH746 and (C) juvenile, paratype, NCBS-BH745.Published as part of Khandekar, Akshay, Thackeray, Tejas, Pawar, Swapnil & Agarwal, Ishan, 2020, A new medium-bodied rupicolous Hemidactylus Goldfuss, 1820 (Squamata Gekkonidae) from the Sirumalai massif, Tamil Nadu, India, pp. 83-100 in Zootaxa 4852 (1) on page 94, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4852.1.4, http://zenodo.org/record/440829
Hemidactylus sirumalaiensis Khandekar & Thackeray & Pawar & Agarwal 2020, sp. nov.
No full textHemidactylus sirumalaiensis sp. nov. (Figures 4–7, 3A; Table 4) urn:lsid:zoobank.org:act: DD1B5AF6-EB89-4425-B801-0E2B033C902F Hemidactylus cf. acanthopholis Ganesh et al. 2016 Holotype. NCBS-BH743 (AK 908), adult male, from Sirumalai massif (10.281944° N, 77.994722° E; ca. 580 m asl.), Dindigul district, Tamil Nadu state, India, collected by Akshay Khandekar, Ishan Agarwal and Swapnil Pawar on 16 Oct 2019. Paratypes. NCBS-BH747 (AK 914), NCBS-BH748 (AK 915), NCBS-BH749 (AK 917), adult males, NCBS-BH744 (AK 909), NCBS-BH746 (AK 911), NCBS-BH750 (AK 922), adult females, NCBS-BH745 (AK 910), juvenile, same collection data as holotype. Etymology. The specific epithet is a toponym for the Sirumalai Massif, the only known locality of the species. Suggested Common Name. Sirumalai rock gecko. Diagnosis. A medium-sized Hemidactylus, SVL 030 MVSR in H. sahgali; 27–30 MVSR in H. siva; 30–33 MVSR in H. sushilduttai; 30–32 MVSR in H. triedrus; 28–30 MVSR in H. whitakeri); SVL 0<shaped markings, single indistinct band on nape, three bands on back, and one indistinct band on tail base. Tail with 10 light and 10 or 11 dark bands. Dorsum of limbs and digits with irregular dark bands. Ventral surfaces dirty white, with faint pale saffron-yellow speckles, most prominent and mixed with dark markings underside of tail; palm and sole grey. Variation and additional information from type series. Mensural and meristic data for the type series are given in Table 4. There are three males, three females and a single juvenile ranging in size from 34.6 mm to 91.2 mm. All paratypes resemble the holotype except as follows: 1. Supranasals separated by a large internasal and a single, marginally smaller scale on snout in NCBS-BH745, NCBS-BH744, NCBS-BH746, and NCBS-BH748; 2. number of gular scales bordering inner postmental on each side (five on each side in NCBS-BH747 and, six in NCBS-BH744, NCBS-BH749; five on left and six on right in NCBS-BH748; six on left and seven on right in NCBS-BH750), 3. contact of inner postmental (in contact with infralabial I on each side in NCBS-BH748; in contact with infralabial I on left and infralabials I & II on right in NCBS-BH747), 4. number of gular scales bordering outer postmental on each side (nine on each side in NCBS-BH746; eight in NCBS-BH747; five in NCBS-BH750; six on left and eight on right in NCBS-BH749; seven on left and nine on right in NCBS-BH745 and NCBS-BH748), 5. contact of outer postmental with infralabials (in contact with infralabial II on left and infralabials II & III on right in NCBS-BH744 and NCBS-BH745; in contact with infralabials I & II on left and infralabials I, II & III on right in NCBS-BH748; in contact with infralabials II & III on left and infralabial II on right in NCBS-BH749 and NCBS-BH750; in contact with infralabials I & II on left and infralabials II & III on right in NCBS-BH747). Four paratypes— NCBS-BH744, NCBS-BH745, NCBS-BH747 and NCBS-BH748, with original and complete tails, slightly longer than body (TL/ SVL 1.11, 1.12, 1.14 and 1.17 respectively), while in other three paratypes—NCBS-BH749, NCBS-BH750 and NCBS-BH746 with either partially or almost fully regenerated but complete tails, marginally shorter than body (TL/ SVL 0.97, 0.85 and tail almost equal to body 1.01 respectively). All paratypes closely agree with the holotype in colouration except that juvenile specimen NCBS-BH745 has a well-defined dorsal pattern and nine light and 10 dark bands on the tail (Figure 7C); the colouration of the regenerated tail in life is brown and lacks enlarged tubercles. Distribution and Natural history. Hemidactylus sirumalaiensis sp. nov. is known only from the type locality at elevations of ~ 580 m asl. (Figure 1 left panel). We collected the type series a few hours after the sunset from large rocks and trees along road-cuttings in a deciduous forest patch (Figure 3B). The species often loses patches of skin upon capture and handling, which was also observed in H. vanam (Chaitanya et al. 2018). Sympatric lizards at the type locality include Hemidactylus frenatus, Hemidactylus parvimaculatus, Hemidactylus reticulatus Beddome, Hemidactylus cf. triedrus, Cnemaspis cf. gracilis, Cyrtodactylus (Geckoella) cf. collegalensis, Eutropis carinata (Schneider), Psammophilus cf. blanfordanus, and Calotes versicolor (Daudin).Published as part of Khandekar, Akshay, Thackeray, Tejas, Pawar, Swapnil & Agarwal, Ishan, 2020, A new medium-bodied rupicolous Hemidactylus Goldfuss, 1820 (Squamata Gekkonidae) from the Sirumalai massif, Tamil Nadu, India, pp. 83-100 in Zootaxa 4852 (1) on pages 90-98, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4852.1.4, http://zenodo.org/record/440829
Figures 11–17 in A new species of Chiromachetes Pocock, 1899 (Scorpiones: Hormuridae) from southern Western Ghats, India
No full textFigures 11–17. Chiromachetes agasthyamalaiensis sp. n., male holotype, trichobothrial pattern of the right pedipalp. Chela dorsal (11), ventral (12), and retrolateral (13) views. Patella dorsal (14), ventral (15), and retrolateral (16) views. Femur dorsal (17) view.Published as part of <i>Khandekar, Akshay, Thackeray, Tejas, Pawar, Swapnil, Gangalmale, Satpal & Waghe, Vivek, 2022, A new species of Chiromachetes Pocock, 1899 (Scorpiones: Hormuridae) from southern Western Ghats, India, pp. 1-13 in Euscorpius 354</i> on page 6, DOI: <a href="http://zenodo.org/record/7163275">10.5281/zenodo.7163275</a>
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