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Geckoella Irulaorum
Geckoella is a disputed genus of Gekkonidae endemic to India and Sri Lanka. Classification of genus ''Geckoella'' The phylogenetic relationships within the genus ''Geckoella'' has not been resolved to date. Based on morphology, suggested that it was a subgenus of ''Cyrtodactylus'' but a phylogenetic study by , though with inadequate sampling of taxa, restored it to generic status once again. They have all been placed under the genus ''Cyrtodactylus'' until a more definitive classification can be worked out. Seven species have been recorded. The five species found in India, listed alphabetically, are : *'' Geckoella albofasciatus'' (Boulenger, 1885)– Boulenger's Indian gecko *'' Geckoella collegalensis'' ( Beddome, 1870) – Kollegal ground gecko *'' Geckoella deccanensis'' ( Günther, 1864) *'' Geckoella irulaorum'' (Agarwal, 2023) *''Geckoella jeyporensis'' ( Beddome, 1877) – Patinghe Indian gecko *'' Geckoella nebulosus'' ( Beddome, 1870) Two species found in Sri La ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Edward Gray
John Edward Gray, FRS (12 February 1800 – 7 March 1875) was a British zoologist. He was the elder brother of zoologist George Robert Gray and son of the pharmacologist and botanist Samuel Frederick Gray (1766–1828). The same is used for a zoological name. Gray was keeper of zoology at the British Museum in London from 1840 until Christmas 1874, before the natural history holdings were split off to the Natural History Museum. He published several catalogues of the museum collections that included comprehensive discussions of animal groups and descriptions of new species. He improved the zoological collections to make them amongst the best in the world. Biography Gray was born in Walsall, but his family soon moved to London, where Gray studied medicine. He assisted his father in writing ''The Natural Arrangement of British Plants'' (1821). After being blackballed by the Linnean Society of London, Gray shifted his interest from botany to zoology. He began his zoologica ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Richard Henry Beddome
Colonel Richard Henry Beddome (11 May 1830 – 23 February 1911) was a British military officer and naturalist in India, who became chief conservator of the Madras Forest Department. In the mid-19th century, he extensively surveyed several remote and then-unexplored hill ranges in Sri Lanka and south India, including those in the Eastern Ghats such as Yelandur, Kollegal, Shevaroy Hills, Yelagiri, Nallamala Hills, Visakhapatnam hills, and the Western Ghats such as Nilgiri hills, Anaimalai hills, Agasthyamalai Hills and Kudremukh. He described many species of plants, amphibians, and reptiles from southern India and Sri Lanka, and several species from this region described by others bear his name. Early life Richard was the eldest son of Richard Boswell Brandon Beddome, solicitor, of Clapham Common, S.W. He was educated at Charterhouse School and trained for the legal profession, but preferred to join the East India Company at the age of 18 and joined the 42nd Madras Native I ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Geckoella Yakhuna
''Cyrtodactylus yakhuna'', also known as the northern Sri Lanka gecko, spotted bow-fingered gecko, blotch bow-fingered gecko, or demon gecko, is a species of gecko endemic to northern Sri Lanka. Habitat and distribution It is a dainty, ground-dwelling gecko from the dry plains of the north, below 300m of Sri Lanka. Known areas of occurrence lies in the North East and North Central Provinces (ssp. ''yakhuna'') and North West Provinces (ssp. ''zonatus''), in localities such as Mannar, Puttalam, Puliyankulam, Polonnaruwa, Giritale, Sigiriya, and Menikdena.13-KADIGAWA (NIKAWERATIYA). Description Its body is stout, cylindrical, and covered with small, granular scales. Scales on the venter overlap. The tail is heavy, tapering, and regenerated tail is turnip-shaped. Supralabials 9-10. Infra-labials 7-9. Subcaudal scales are not distinctly enlarged. The dorsum has two cross rows of dark blotches. In subspecies ''G. y. yakhuna'', the blotches consist of two sub-rectangular marks, with ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Geckoella Nebulosus
''Cyrtodactylus nebulosus'', also known as the clouded Indian gecko, is a species of gecko Geckos are small, mostly carnivorous lizards that have a wide distribution, found on every continent except Antarctica. Belonging to the infraorder Gekkota, geckos are found in warm climates throughout the world. They range from . Geckos ar ... found in India. Description :Note that the following diagnostic description may include '' Cyrtodactylus collegalensis'' following an older taxonomy. Head rather large, oviform, generally very convex, sometimes more depressed; snout longer than the diameter of the orbit or the distance between the eye and the ear-opening; forehead slightly concave; ear-opening elliptical, oblique, one third to one halt the diameter of the eye. Body rather short, not much depressed. Limbs moderate; digits short, thick, slightly depressed at the base, compressed at the end, beneath with enlarged plates. Head covered with granules, which are larger on the snou ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Geckoella Jeyporensis
''Cyrtodactylus jeyporensis'', also known as the Jeypore Indian gecko, the Jeypore ground gecko, or the Patinghe Indian gecko, is an endangered species of gecko found in India, which was until recently considered extinct. Described from a single specimen in 1877, it was rediscovered in 2010 in the Eastern Ghats of Odisha state, India. Discovery and rediscovery The species was described in 1877 by then Lt Col Richard Henry Beddome of the Madras Presidency Army, from a single male specimen obtained from the woods on "Patinghe hill" in the Jeypore forests of present-day Odisha, at an altitude of . The holotype is deposited as BNHM 82.5.22.37 in the Natural History Museum (earlier British Museum of natural history). In 2009, Ishan Aggarwal, a doctoral student at the Centre for Ecological Sciences, Indian Institute of Sciences, Bangalore, started working on the genus '' Geckoella''. He hoped to rediscover this "lost" species as it would help piece together the evolutionary history o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Geckoella Irulaorum
Geckoella is a disputed genus of Gekkonidae endemic to India and Sri Lanka. Classification of genus ''Geckoella'' The phylogenetic relationships within the genus ''Geckoella'' has not been resolved to date. Based on morphology, suggested that it was a subgenus of ''Cyrtodactylus'' but a phylogenetic study by , though with inadequate sampling of taxa, restored it to generic status once again. They have all been placed under the genus ''Cyrtodactylus'' until a more definitive classification can be worked out. Seven species have been recorded. The five species found in India, listed alphabetically, are : *'' Geckoella albofasciatus'' (Boulenger, 1885)– Boulenger's Indian gecko *'' Geckoella collegalensis'' ( Beddome, 1870) – Kollegal ground gecko *'' Geckoella deccanensis'' ( Günther, 1864) *'' Geckoella irulaorum'' (Agarwal, 2023) *''Geckoella jeyporensis'' ( Beddome, 1877) – Patinghe Indian gecko *'' Geckoella nebulosus'' ( Beddome, 1870) Two species found in Sri La ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Albert Günther
Albert Karl Ludwig Gotthilf Günther FRS, also Albert Charles Lewis Gotthilf Günther (3 October 1830 – 1 February 1914), was a German-born British zoologist, ichthyologist, and herpetologist. Günther is ranked the second-most productive reptile taxonomist (after George Albert Boulenger) with more than 340 reptile species described. Early life and career Günther was born in Esslingen in Swabia (Württemberg). His father was a ''Stiftungs-Commissar'' in Esslingen and his mother was Eleonora Nagel. He initially schooled at the Stuttgart Gymnasium. His family wished him to train for the ministry of the Lutheran Church for which he moved to the University of Tübingen. A brother shifted from theology to medicine, and he, too, turned to science and medicine at Tübingen in 1852. His first work was "''Ueber den Puppenzustand eines Distoma''". He graduated in medicine with an M.D. from Tübingen in 1858, the same year in which he published a handbook of zoology for students of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Geckoella Deccanensis
''Cyrtodactylus deccanensis'', also commonly known as Deccan ground gecko, Günther's Indian gecko, or the banded ground gecko, is a species of gecko found in the northern Western Ghats of India. It has been found from northern Maharashtra, with a habitat range possibly extending to southern Gujarat. '' Cyrtodactylus albofasciatus'' was previously considered conspecific with ''Cyrtodactylus deccanensis'' but is now accepted as a valid species. Description Their head is rather large, oviform, snout longer than the diameter of the orbit or the distance between the eye and the ear-opening; forehead and loreal region concave; ear-opening suboval, vertical, about one third the diameter of the eye. Body moderately elongate, depressed. Its limbs are rather long; digits moderately elongate, cylindrical in the basal, compressed in the distal portion; the plates under the basal phalanx are very small, little larger than the surrounding tubercles. The head is covered with convex granul ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Geckoella Collegalensis
__NOTOC__ ''Cyrtodactylus collegalensis'', also known as the Kollegal ground gecko or forest spotted gecko, is a species of gecko found in and around Mysore hills, at the junction of the Western Ghats and the Eastern Ghats, in South India. Recent taxonomic works and genetic studies revealed that the formerly-supposed genus is actually a subgenus of the widespread genus ''Cyrtodactylus''. It is often confused with the forest spotted gecko (''Cyrtodactylus speciosus''). 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. It was treated as synonymous with '' Cyrtodactylus nebulosus'' by Boulenger. It has later been reported from found in adjacen ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Geckoella Triedrus
''Cyrtodactylus triedrus'', also known as the spotted bent-toed gecko, Sri Lanka gecko, spotted bow-fingered gecko, or spotted ground gecko, is a species of gecko endemic to island of Sri Lanka. Habitat & Distribution It is a small, dark, turnip-tailed gecko from Sri Lanka's midhills below 700m. Known localities include Peradeniya Peradeniya ( si, පේරාදෙණිය, translit=Pēradeniya; ta, பேராதனை, translit=Pērātaṉai) is a suburb of the city of Kandy Kandy ( si, මහනුවර ''Mahanuwara'', ; ta, கண்டி Kandy, ) is a m ..., Gammaduwa, Kithulgala, and Knuckles Mountain Range. Description The body is with small, granular scales, intermixed with larger keeled scales. Midventral scales are cycloid and imbricate, numbering 35. Toes are short. Males have 3-4 pre-anal pores and 3-4 femoral pores. The dorsum is dark brown to nearly black, typically with small white spots that are edged with brown color. Venter is light brown. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
George Albert Boulenger
George Albert Boulenger (19 October 1858 – 23 November 1937) was a Belgian-British zoologist who described and gave scientific names to over 2,000 new animal species, chiefly fish, reptiles, and amphibians. Boulenger was also an active botanist during the last 30 years of his life, especially in the study of roses. Life Boulenger was born in Brussels, Belgium, the only son of Gustave Boulenger, a Belgian public notary, and Juliette Piérart, from Valenciennes. He graduated in 1876 from the Free University of Brussels with a degree in natural sciences, and worked for a while at the Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences, Brussels, as an assistant naturalist studying amphibians, reptiles, and fishes. He also made frequent visits during this time to the ''Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle'' in Paris and the British Museum in London. In 1880, he was invited to work at the Natural History Museum, then a department of the British Museum, by Dr. Albert C. L. G. Günther a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
